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AI or not, if a machine finds an answer so complex that no human can understand it, how useful is it?
by af78 2y ago
AI or not, if a machine finds an answer so complex that no human can understand it, how useful is it?
- rthnbgrredf 2y agoDepends on whether we can instruct the AI to make something useful out of it. Today we have complex systems like CPUs that most humans don't understand.
- DonHopkins 2y agoOr an answer so simple: 42.
- ben_w 2y agoI don't see that as being an important objection, because from the point of view of any single human… that's already true for the expertise found only in other humans. I don't know the chemistry necessary to turn crude oil into any plastic, I don't know how to use a Lagrangian, I tried and failed to learn group theory (I've only got the basics, and I'm not confident about them), and I've still only got a toy model of special relativity (which is supposed to be the easier one) — and yet, not only are those all still useful, the four colour theorem is useful even though it's a non-surveyable proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-surveyable_proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-surveyable_proof
- cdchn 2y agoAbstractions are a thing. We use devices all the time that we don't understand entirely the workings of.