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Re:How do neural networks learn? by jprete on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @10:28AM (#39756078)
We don't understand how GenAI systems work, so we can't analytically predict their behavior; I think they're artifacts of synthetic biology, or chaos theory, not engineering or computer science. Giving GenAI goals and the ability to act outside of a sandbox is roughly parallel to releasing a colony of foreign predators in Australia, or creating an artificial pathogen that is so foreign the immune system doesn't have the tools to fight it.

That's why I consider understanding the internals of GenAI systems to be very important, independent of human psychology.

Re:How do neural networks learn? by uoaei on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @10:36AM (#39756154)
AI is not and really never has been computer science -- if you trust the pedigree of statistical learning as the appropriate one for modern AI, computers don't enter the picture til you want to approximate a solution numerically to an otherwise well-posed analytical question.