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Re:Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math by abc_lisper on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:51PM (#21818682)
What about the confidence in the result? Math is never done willy nilly, and without the ability to show how it is done, this will go no where. That said, this is a exciting result
Re:Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math by Someone on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:10PM (#21819986)
In general, differentiating a function is a lot easier than integrating one.

Because functions can be written in multiple ways (simple example: ‘x+1’ vs ‘1+x’. For harder examples, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trigonometric_identiti...), it may still be difficult to prove that the derivative of a proposed integral of some function f is equal to f, but most of the time, checking a proposed solution to ".

Re:Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math by colejohnson66 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:32PM (#21819656)
That reminds me of a joke that goes something like this:

> Me: What is 2+2?

> AI: It’s 42.

> Me: Wrong, it’s 4. What’s 2+3?

> AI: It’s 4.

Re:Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math by julienreszka on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:53PM (#21821333)
Can someone explain me the joke
Re:Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math by colejohnson66 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:13PM (#21826973)
AI (or more accurately, machine learning (ML)) learns by being told when it’s wrong and right (like a child). The AI makes a mistake on what 2+2 is, so it’s corrected. However, when it’s asked 2+3, it doesn’t know that 3 is one more than 2, and the only answer it’s learned is 4, so it says 4.
Re:Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math by perl4ever on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @07:04PM (#21830809)
As is well known, a child learning language will often initially assume that rules/patterns are more regular that they actually are.
Re:Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math by ct0 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:05PM (#21821400)
The ai was trained that the answer is 4, so the second time around it went with 4.