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Re:AI knows things no one told it by lucubratory on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:42PM (#36079558)
If you have put the answer into the program then by definition you had the test available to you when you finalised the program, which means it is definitionally not a novel test.
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Re:AI knows things no one told it by mike741 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @06:34PM (#36108430)
The test is novel to the program, just not its programmer. So are we testing the program or are we actually testing its programmer? If we're testing the program, then the programmer's foreknowledge is irrelevant.
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Re:AI knows things no one told it by lucubratory on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:37AM (#36111654)
>The test is novel to the program

That's funny, I thought you said the test's answer was embedded into the program, making it definitionally not novel to the program.

Anyway, this is boring. You've had five or more opportunities to understand what the word "novel" means in an ML testing context and are choosing wilful obtuseness instead.

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Re:AI knows things no one told it by mike741 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:27PM (#36235107)
> in an ML testing context

OP was not speaking in the ML testing context, hence the misunderstanding.

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