Can we open the black box of AI? Nature News & Comment http://www.nature.com/news/can-we-open-the-black-box-of-ai-1.20731 … via @NatureNews
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you have a point having thought about it. But... Isn't that how a lot of sciences progress?
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seems this was resolved but to specify it's a black box b/c it has to be reverse engineered to understand it
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I'm actually really uncomfortable w phrase "reverse engineering" to mean "do science", but otherwise, yes.
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hmm fair enough but I think rev eng may be sufficient-but-not-necessary for hypothesis testing
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@synapticlee@mysticstatistic all I object to (as others have before me) is defining science as the reverse process to engineering. -
ah in that case, I definitely agree :p no, I think 'reverse engineering' is just one part of science!
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I think you are defining reverse engineering a lot more broadly than I do. I just don't see it as part of sci.
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in my opinion it's part of design technology and engineering.
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some science consists of hypothesis generation, or just observation, until you can formulate a theory
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definitely, but brute force since the 1950s is a poor run.
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@drjtwit@mysticstatistic@synapticlee the context was neural networks and since they've been around since the 50s you'd hope they would be -
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@drjtwit@mysticstatistic@synapticlee less black box and more understood theoretically. This is exactly what the article is about. -
now you're imposing unfair debate guidelines, like, I have to read the article! (that was sarcasm).
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all in all it's a good overview of the state of research btw if you haven't read it.

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lunchtime reading! I'll checkit fo sho
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