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Don't understand. How does doing real world experiments to test your hypothesis not help with the very common problem of being wrong? > It's not the way scien
by DrScientist 2y ago
Don't understand.
How does doing real world experiments to test your hypothesis not help with the very common problem of being wrong?
> It's not the way science is done any way.
That's a very sweeping statement - especially since the scientific method is quite a catch-all phrase.
In the end science is driven forward by new data, gathered either intentionally or incidentally.
Self-driving cars can continue to learn because they are continually generating more data. Advertising algorithms can continue to learn and adapt as the campaigns they create are in effect experiments - and some are even well designed.
I suppose large language models can continue to learn by chatting to humans - but they are potentially only learning how to please humans, not necessarily underlying truths.