Statistical learning is mimetic, and thus cannot generalize far beyond what it has observed so far. But the human mind can.
A statistical machine translation algo trained on data up to 1800 could not translate a Tom Clancy book. But a smart human from 1800 could.
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@fchollet could a current human translate a book written 200 years from now when society has changed so much ? I'm not so sure. -
@cbonnett sure. It's not very different from translating old books. - Show replies
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