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This is one of those articles that treats computers as if they were hyperintelligent entities that programmed themselves rather than just simple computational m
by the_arcadian 4y ago
This is one of those articles that treats computers as if they were hyperintelligent entities that programmed themselves rather than just simple computational machines following rules created by teams of people that have studied the game for decades.
Also it sounds like should replace all of my servers with powerful shoe computers to take advantage of the "upgrades in commercial hardware" that they mentioned.
- hackinthebochs 4y agoThis misses the key property of such systems that make them remarkable. The computation involved begets new behavioral patterns that weren't enumerated by the initial program statements. The behavior is not just a representation of the human knowledge imparted to the system, but an emergent dynamic that is unpredictable from an analysis of the initial rules. It is a common mistake to dismiss the computational part of a system as carrying no informative or meaningful content. Just bracketing `the computation` as transparent and explanatorily insignificant is to miss a large part of the substance of the system.
- graderjs 4y agoExactly, dynamics and algorithm is content as well. 1 example: the heuristics you pick for something can be more powerful than the explicit knowledge required to create the heuristic.