Why "deep learning" (sort of) works
Mark Liberman,
Language Log,
Oct 10, 2020
This short post vividly explains why I think about knowledge the way I do. "I still more or less believed what I'd learned at M.I.T. in the 1970s era of classical AI, which saw pattern recognition as applied logic. The basic idea was to recognize all the relevant traits, and then apply an Aristotelian taxonomy to make the classification. But I'd found, along with everyone else, that this didn't really work, among other things because it's at least as hard to recognize the relevant traits as to recognize the final category." Exactly! That's why I'm critical of taxonomies in education research, critical of things like competency definitions, critical of learning design. We're not teaching people what to know, we're teaching them how to see, which is a very different enterprise.
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