Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI...
by darawk on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:41AM
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What is your argument that it's still bad? That was kind of a non-sequitur. If we have a model that takes in skull measurements and accurately predicts whether you are an introvert or extrovert...what is the problem with that?
Well, that's not a very full story. It was scientifically invalid because it modeled mental traits based on the shape of the skull, and that's the important part. If you trained a model to predict traits based on accurate data about skull shape and traits, I'm confident that the algorithm would happily do that. Phrenology would still be bad regardless of what technical methods are used to do phrenology.