How a Machine Learns and Fails
Matteo Pasquinelli · media/rep/ · 2019
Once the characteristic numbers are established for most concepts, mankind will then possess a new instrument which will enhance the capabilities of the mind to a far greater extent than optical instruments strengthen the eyes, and will supersede the microscope and telescope to the same extent that reason is superior to eyesight." 1 -Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz."The Enlightenment was […] not about consensus, it was not about systematic unity, and it was not about the deployment of instrumental reason: what was developed in the Enlightenment was a modern idea of truth defined by error, a modern idea of knowledge defined by failure, conflict, and risk, but also hope." 2 -David Bates."There is no intelligence in Artificial Intelligence, nor does it really learn, even though it's technical name is machine learning, it is simply mathematical minimisation."3 -Dan McQuillan."When you're fundraising, it's Artificial Intelligence.When you're hiring, it's Machine Learning.When you're implementing, it's logistic regression." 4 -Joe Davidson.