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Re:Artificial intelligence risk research by eli_gottlieb on Saturday December 12, 2015 @05:08PM (#10724351)
> Replicating intelligences might be like black boxes which we don't understand but can generate, or grow, if you will, from simpler primitives.

I strongly doubt that.

>As an example, "Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why." https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematic....

If you read the HN comments on that very article, I recall posting some links to papers giving theoretical grounding for why deep learning works so well.

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Re:Artificial intelligence risk research by platz on Saturday December 12, 2015 @05:16PM (#10724382)
This article is meant to be illustrative, its particulars are not the crux of my main point (to which you seem to imply only doubt sufficies to refute)
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Re:Artificial intelligence risk research by eli_gottlieb on Saturday December 12, 2015 @10:38PM (#10725325)
Well no. What I think refutes your point is that we possess increasingly good foundational theories for what minds are and how they work. I doubt that any intelligence we successfully create is going to be a black-box.
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