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    1. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 30 Oct 2019

      A way to describe intelligence is that it is the power to produce abstraction. AI in the true sense would be Autonomous Abstraction. Current AI consists of recording abstractions generated by the human mind (via hard-coding rules, training ML models on human-labeled data, etc).

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    2. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 30 Oct 2019

      All generalization must by definition come from some form of abstraction. The abstractions that can be learned by DL models (often reflections of human abstractions injected via labels) are fairly weak and shallow, which is why DL is only capable of local generalization.

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    3. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 30 Oct 2019

      If AI today isn't capable of autonomous abstraction, it isn't because it's a particularly hard technical problem. Rather, it's a subtle conceptual problem. It doesn't seem like many people are looking at it. You can't produce the right answers if you're asking the wrong questions

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    4. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 30 Oct 2019

      AI today is to human intelligence what the phonograph was to human musicians. Superficially, it may seem like it has a comparable output & is ready to replace musicians (which was a real fear back then). But it has radically different capabilities: it's merely a recording device.

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      François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 30 Oct 2019

      Don't confuse music creation with sound recording. Musicians are the origin of music. Unlike a phonograph, they can play a never-played before score, or write never-heard before music. Or take up a new instrument. Or invent a new musical genre.

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        2. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 30 Oct 2019

          Historically, we went technology to record sound to technology capable of helping with music production and creation. New, more powerful tools. Eventually, we will see open-ended autonomous music creation. This will be the trajectory of AI as well.

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        3. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 30 Oct 2019

          From recorded abstraction, to cognitive augmentation tools, to autonomous abstraction.

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        1. Vrishabh Lakhani‏ @VrishabhLakhani 30 Oct 2019
          Replying to @fchollet

          I wonder if inventing/creating something new anything more than just a result of iterative search of latent space or combining two priors which weren't combined before and/or just randomness? 🤔

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        1. Shyamal Chandra (Founder and Freelancer)‏ @shyamal_chandra 30 Oct 2019
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          This is simply PSR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_ZSR9E_8x0 … https://opera.media.mit.edu/publications/machover_hyperinstruments_progress_report.pdf … Have fun reinventing the past with a neural twist! #USA1 42 #NWO 99>1pic.twitter.com/Q8Ffrms4hb

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        1. F‏ @Fatalis5 30 Oct 2019
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          Well, GAN can also play a never-played before music. You may say that GAN is learned using human-recorded music, but we, humans, also learn from other humans. Everything that we create is a result of something we have seen before. So can we name GAN an abstract creator?

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        1. Dave Tyler‏ @dvty 30 Oct 2019
          Replying to @fchollet

          Could I ask a series of genuine questions? I don't know much about this area but found your messages interesting. I'll start with, what makes human musicians unique, as in, do they make generally interesting new patterns not influenced by past music?

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        1. Dave Tyler‏ @dvty 30 Oct 2019
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          Is a new genre anything more than a new set of patterns that are liked by humans? Humans that are open to new patterns and are based on prior learning? It tends to be that new genres don't just spring up, they are derivative of something else. Could that be similar to machines?

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        1. Julian Pani‏ @JulianPani 31 Oct 2019
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          Spot on about the superficiality of current ML, and lack of abstractions. @fchollet I wonder - is past music from previous generations, very different from "labelled data" we use in ML? What are human musicians are able to learn from past data, that ML models are not not?

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