Learn from machine learning
David Weinberger,
Aeon,
Nov 19, 2021
This is a lovely post from David Weinberger that accords almost perfectly with my own thoughts on the matter. I think it represents what will become an emerging (and transformational) consensus. Some excerpts:"In the cry 'We don't know how machine learning works!' we hear that these models do indeed work"; "MLMs work because they're better at reading the world than we are"; and "Our encounter with MLMs doesn't deny that there are generalisations, laws or principles. It denies that they are sufficient for understanding what happens in a universe as complex as ours." Or as I say sometimes: words are too blunt an instrument for managing something so complex as knowledge.
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