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Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park

COMPLEXITY

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Complex Systems Science and Machine Learning

complexity is this domain of reality that straddles the very regular and the random. Machine learning and AI takes all that complexity in, in codes in big models like deep neural networks and makes predictions. But those predictions are completely opaque and don't give anyone an understanding as to how they were reached. And I think we're now entering in the 21st century a new kind of scientific schism where we're going to live with two very different ways of engaging with reality. It's almost as if we return to use your biblical metaphors to the Kain and Abel. Those two brothers are going to have to get on rather than one killing the other.

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