Re:Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding
by visarga on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @01:55AM
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> unable to understand how or why it works
We do understand how and why it works to a certain degree (gradient based input to output approximation). But if you want the meaning of the third neuron in the 10th layer, then yes... But in the same sense we don't understand thermodynamics because we don't account for each particle, just a statistical aggregate of them.
And on the other hand, we don't understand much about how people work or how we are motivated, even though we have first and third person perspectives. Psychology seems to be no further advanced than AI. And yet we work with what we have.
We do understand how and why it works to a certain degree (gradient based input to output approximation). But if you want the meaning of the third neuron in the 10th layer, then yes... But in the same sense we don't understand thermodynamics because we don't account for each particle, just a statistical aggregate of them.
And on the other hand, we don't understand much about how people work or how we are motivated, even though we have first and third person perspectives. Psychology seems to be no further advanced than AI. And yet we work with what we have.