Easy take: calling linear algebra “quantum physics” and “artificial intelligence” is hype. Deeper: the huge influx of physicists into AI has produced an intellectual monoculture that isn’t capable of addressing key problems in the field.https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1181437300414275584 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Why do you think physicists have created a monoculture? Because no one told them "this technique isn't unique to quantum mechanics"? It really is a bit odd for a physicist to claim that since pre-quantum era physicists already used it.
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Replying to @NeuroStats
I meant that “AI” has mostly narrowed to fiddling with backpropagation hyperparameters. Sometimes just empirically, but if there’s insight to be had, it’s from thinking about the energy surface and stuff. There’s value in this, but there’s a lot of problems it doesn’t address.
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Replying to @Meaningness @NeuroStats
This is fair but doesn't seem to be at all relevant to the cited article? I mean, you can't possibly infer subtle intersubjectual interactions, such as the ones you mention, from an article this clueless.
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Yes; I was making the "monoculture" point on the basis of my take on the direction of the field overall in the past ~5 years, rather than drawing on the article specifically.
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