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Old 03-28-2016, 12:16 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
Yeah, JohnnyB. The entire concept of AI is one gigantic philosophical/religious rabbit hole. It is literally, as I have tried to emphasize, a technology we do not understand.
Part of why I sought out the videos above to try to see how accurate your assertion is. While a number of the steps are proven mathematically, I was still a little surprised to hear the speaker say a couple times something along the lines of "and we know this works because the results we get are good".

I suppose this is pretty common in mathematics - there are a lot of mathematical conjectures that most assume are true, but for which there is no proof.

But there is a big difference between not understanding something, and not being able to understand something. And the only way to know where we lie is in trying.
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