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EP 192 David Krakauer on Science, Complexity and AI

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The Polyannas of Machine Learning

Human thought and creativity is based on the huge limitations of memory, huge limitations of inference and self-imposed constraints. And my question to the polyannas of machine learning is, do we think we'll get true scientific revolutions, not predictive revolutions? Maybe the next generation, really, of machine learnings is, okay, let's hobble them. If you incrementally decayed them until they stop working at all and then back up to where they work just barely good enough, that might be an area in which it would be useful to understand what's going on. Right.

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