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Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by nonbel on Sunday January 13, 2019 @06:59PM (#18899524)
>"Judea Pearl thinks that DL is nothing more than curve fitting. Is he a greivence scholar?"

Deep learning? It is curve fitting (ie pattern recognition), is there supposed to be something wrong with that?

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Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by leggomylibro on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:36PM (#18900195)
Only if you want to market it as 'AI'.
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Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by nonbel on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:03PM (#18900545)
Humans do similar though. You know a chair when you see it, but you wouldm't easily come up with the perfect definition of a chair.
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Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by antidesitter on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:35PM (#18914837)
The criticism isn’t that it’s unnecessary, but that it’s insufficient: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-build-truly-intelligent-ma....
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