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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@o_guest@NatureNews Its only a blackbox to non experts. Corneal transplants are 'blackbox' to me but I trust the process.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
it depends so I'm an expert as are those that developed GoogLeNet Inception v3 and yet the details
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are derived by empirically "trying shit till it works". That's not theory-driven understanding.
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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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Replying to @synapticlee @mysticstatistic
I'm actually really uncomfortable w phrase "reverse engineering" to mean "do science", but otherwise, yes.
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Replying to @o_guest @mysticstatistic
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.2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
'@synapticlee @mysticstatistic Science happens (in the overwhelming majority of cases) before we can design & engineer anything anyway. 
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