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by dmreedy 10y ago
Yeah, absolutely, and those successes are not going anywhere. But as solutions to those problems become more and more rote, funding will still be needed for the bigger problem, which continues to fail to deliver on its promises.
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by dmreedy 10y ago
Yep. The problem is that it's _so_ noisy, that the encryption, as it were, might be too strong to crack with statistical methods. You might need the key; i.e., something like a human brain. EDIT: a combination of noise, I should say, a
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by dmreedy 10y ago
I think you're dead on. And I'm nervous about a coming winter, because of disappointment in all the wolf-crying we're doing about how good at Natural Language we're getting. When we've barely scratched the surface.
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by dmreedy 10y ago
It depends on what the nature of language is. If it is purely a tool of consciousness, a separate module in mind like basic image recognition seems to be, then the picture you're painting may be possible. It may be that the language si
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by dmreedy 10y ago
I think the 'overall representation of the world' requirement is pretty key here. Language in AI is often treated as its own class of problem, with the assumption that there is somehow enough signal in the raw mess of examples pro
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by dmreedy 10y ago
I don't think it's always so easy to measure as you're asserting; to really measure it, you have to have some idea of what the reality is, which is the whole problem in the first place. You can get some of the way there by ap
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by dmreedy 10y ago
> But the thing is, the formalist output of algorithms is not necessarily in agreement with what political power actually does in the real world. I think this is where your argument makes a pretty big assumption. It's not just probl
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by dmreedy 10y ago
Yep, like I said, it's absolutely an old problem, even when it comes to statistical techniques. I understand that the particular models in the article are on the simpler side. I was speaking more generally. As to whether the models in
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by dmreedy 10y ago
>> The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Contributor >> Julia Angwin is a reporter at ProPublica. It looks like this is an Opinion piece from ProPublica. Not much better, I know, but the trail of bias is at least a little less obscured
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by dmreedy 10y ago
I think the problem is vastly more subtle and fundamental than the author of this piece (and ProPublica in general, given their previous coverage of the same story) is giving credit. Software is in a dangerous place right now[1]. Half[2]-wa
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by dmreedy 10y ago
The 'kind of processing agent' emphasis is a very good one, and I think worth bringing up in every one of these conversations. That said, I want to niggle a little bit on some of these points There certainly does seem to be compon
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by dmreedy 10y ago
This is a sound argument, but I think it's operating a level abstract enough to gloss over some of the niggling details that might make the parent's argument valid. - We don't know that our brains are heavily based on network
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by dmreedy 10y ago
I want to be careful here; yes, semi-coherent text generation is possible under the current state of the art, but there is no evidence right now that it 'on the right track', as it were, to solving the harder problem of binding se
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by dmreedy 10y ago
The Go victory is definitely impressive, for what it was, but I think this is a pretty unfair comparison; it's an entirely different class of problem, and a strictly less difficult one at that (at least given current knowledge of the m
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by dmreedy 10y ago
Possibly. On the other hand, my experience with 'just' is symptomatic not of a knowledge gap, but an _understanding_ gap. A knowledge gap might exist between two peers with similar levels of domain knowledge but slightly differing
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by dmreedy 10y ago
Note: in the time it took me to write this ramble and also the code review I had to do in between writing and posting, others like catnaroek have addressed similar themes Speculating wildly here, but part of why I think there is continued (
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by dmreedy 10y ago
Absolutely; the problem has to go somewhere. It's just the balance of how much semantic weight belongs to the encoder vs. the decoder
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by dmreedy 10y ago
I would argue that this is largely because the systems you mention do not have the requisite (hardware or software) functional abstractions required to make them mesh nicely with functional or declarative control* code. Backus here is writi
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by dmreedy 10y ago
A hunch can be a powerful thing; sometimes, it's the symptom of a nascent theory that hasn't hit the requisite critical model mass to attain that self-sustaining "eureka" moment in the brain yet. Of course, this validate
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by dmreedy 10y ago
Scott Aaronson touches on this idea a bit during a discourse with Roger Penrose[1], commenting on the unification of entropy and information: "So on the picture that this suggests, to be conscious, a physical entity would have to do mo
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by dmreedy 10y ago
Barring some Einstein/Shannon-level of momentary insight that catapults understanding of the nature of intelligence forward by orders of magnitude from where it is now, likely all of them. And entirely likely that it will be more than
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by dmreedy 10y ago
I agree about fiefdoms, and want to address a particular aspect of that pattern, somewhat complementary to yours, that I've seen at least in the (very large) organization that I'm a member of. Specifically, like a microservice all
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by dmreedy 10y ago
Does the technology behind this system do any classical parsing work? Or is it mostly seeing implicit structure via embeddings?
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I think that's part of it, but there's also the facet that a lot of people just...don't care. Families, hobbies, etc are all valid reasons to live for outside of your employment. If the majority do just enough to get by and n
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by dmreedy 10y ago
> A major advantage of employing machine intelligence early in the recruitment process is zero bias; candidates are judged purely on their merits. I am reminded* of the AI Koan [1]: In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once cam