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Needing more training data seems wrong. Imagine the space of all programs. Can we agree that one can only train a model on a given subset of that space? Now, im
by ngneer 3y ago
Needing more training data seems wrong. Imagine the space of all programs. Can we agree that one can only train a model on a given subset of that space? Now, imagine wanting a program P that solves a particular problem, and that the program P is not in the training data. How does more training data guarantee that the output is P and not a neighboring P' that is almost correct, but subtly different and therefore utterly wrong? I think (and the author seems to agree) that the most we can hope for is a less sloppy approximation, not a correct program.