Re:Do Simpler Machine Learning Models Exist and How Can We F...
by heyitsguay on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:06PM
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As someone in the ML industry, who knows many people in the ML industry, we all know this. It's non-technical fundraisers that spread the hype, and non-technical laypeople that buy into it. Meanwhile, the folks building things and solving problems plug right along, aware of where limitations are and aren't.
Re:Do Simpler Machine Learning Models Exist and How Can We F...
by hooande on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:28PM
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> It's almost like we have no clue what we are doing with NN and are just tweaking knobs and hoping it works out in the end.
No, we understand very well how NNs work. Look at PartiallyTyped's comment in this thread. It's a great explanation of the basic concepts behind modern machine learning.
You're quite correct that modern neural networks have nothing to do with how the brain learns or with any kind of superintelligence. And people know this. But these technologies have valuable practical applications. They're good at what they were made to do.
And yet people still like to push this idea that we will magically and accidentally build a superintelligence on top of these systems. It's so frustrating how deep into their own koolaid the ML industry is. We don't even know how the brain learns, we don't understand intelligence, there's no valid reason to believe a NN "learns" the same way a human brain learns, and individual human neurons are infinitely more complex and "learning" than even a single layer of a NN.