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What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models | Stephen Wolfram | August 22, 2024 (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

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[–] FizzyOrange 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah fair enough. That was a bit mean, sorry.

I think the main issue is that ML isn't useless just because we don't understand how it works. It clearly does work and we can use that. It's hardly unique in that way either. There are a gazillion medicines that work but we don't really know how. We're not going to abandon them just because we don't understand them.

And it's not like people aren't trying to understand how they work; it's just really difficult.

The calculator analogy also makes no sense. You can't build a working speech recognition engine by manually entering equations for phonemes or whatever. That's actually not a million miles away from how speech recognition worked in the 90s and 2000s... or I should say "didn't work".