Is there predictive knowledge for which there is no useful explanation, other than knowledge which codifies physically stochastic processes?
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Evolutionary programming (genetic algorithms, etc.) often generates predictive functions that are incomprehensible.
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Yeah, but there exist useful explanations for many of those results—the GAs just don’t surface them.
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True. I was just thinking about the bizarre design of evolved FPGAs that baffled researchers: discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/evolv