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> even striving for explainable/understandable systems It's been almost 6-8000 years since the advent of writing and we still cannot explain or understand hum
by anon291 2y ago
> even striving for explainable/understandable systems
It's been almost 6-8000 years since the advent of writing and we still cannot explain or understand human intelligence and yet we expect to be able to understand a machine that is close to or surpasses human intelligence? Isn't the premise fundamentally flawed?
- photonthug 2y agoI think I'd remain interested in more conclusive proof one way or the other, since by your logic everything that's currently unknown is unknowable. Regardless of whether the project of explainable / understandable succeeds though, everyone should agree it's a worthy goal. Unless you like the idea of stock-markets, resource planning for cities and whole societies under the control of technology that's literally indistinguishable from oracles speaking to a whispering wind. I'd prefer someone else is able to hear/understand/check their math or their arguments. Speaking of 6-8000 years since something happened, oracles and mystical crap like that should be forgotten relics of a bygone era rather than an explicit goal for the future
- anon291 2y agoIt is actually incredibly silly to expect full explain ability as a goal because any system sufficiently intelligent to do basic arithmetic will have behavior that is inexplicable.