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MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Are There Limits to Our Capabilities?

If we are organic creatures, then there'll be scope and limits to our capacities. i have the capacity to walk much faster than a chimpanzee but can't fly or jump around trees. The same intrinsic characteristics that provide me with capacities impose limits. So for example, a rat can be trained to run pretty complicated nases, but it can't be trained to learn a pry number maze turn every pryne number. It just doesn't have the concept. And no matter how much training you do, you're not going to get anywhere.

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