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#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

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The Real Power of Neural Networks Comes From Differentiability

The real power of neural networks comes not from instrutability, but from differentiability. If you tweak your knobs and then you can use all these powerful methods we have for optimization and science, we can just tweak them a little bit and see did that get better or worse? That's the fundamental idea of machine learning: The machine itself can keep optimizing until it gets better.

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