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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by nabla9 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:50PM (#24933121)
Humans can and we are really good at it.

I suspect that you made that comment because you think in the terms of rigorous detection of causality, not everyday effective detection of causality heuristically.

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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by chillacy on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:13PM (#24943748)
Nowadays yes. For most of history though (and still commonly today), causal explanations for plenty of things involved some flavor of the supernatural.
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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by shatnersbassoon on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:56PM (#24933180)
Yes - humans do it abductively, which isn't rigorous but serves our purpose most of the time. You can't trust a self driving system with abduction though - it's the style of reasoning that gave us rain dances and homeopathy.
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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by nabla9 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:11PM (#24933394)
>You can't trust a self driving system with abduction though

All wetware based self driving systems on the road use heuristics in their wetware system.

You can't hope to have self driving without heuristics. That's what deep learning is.

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