"This is content production in the age of algorithmic discovery — even if you’re a human, you have to end up impersonating the machine."https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/927598668076781569 …
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Replying to @lyrra_sark @datawench
machines have barely started to teach us how to think. in a little while rich kids will be inculcated with machine-learning-generated cognitive strategies that for all practical purposes make them an invasive, predatory alien species
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Replying to @SilvrdSpin @datawench
it might seem that way, but they're just trying to be using strategies developed using human intuition, which as AlphaGo has shown us can work on a problem for thousands of years and stay in a cramped corner of its search space
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Replying to @chaosprime @datawench
the reason AlphaGo's playstyle is so novel is that almost all human players had learnt theirs by copying another human player
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whereas AlphaGo developed its organically
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it's not that human intuition is limited, but that it hadn't been used; human learning had been more machine-y than machine learning
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copying an existing winning strategy being more economical than developing one from scratch
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also, go is a deterministic, closed system with symmetric knowledge, where social interaction is chaotic, open-ended, and asymmetric
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so I do feel that you're perhaps overestimating the potential of machine learning a bit
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that would be lovely, i am vain enough to resent obsolescence
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