On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 6:17:06 AM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 9:07:13 PM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 11:37:25 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 1:32 PM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> *> Why do you think this has anything to do with intelligence and >>>> reasoning ability?* >>>> >>> >>> Oh for heaven's sake! This whistling past the graveyard is getting >>> ridiculous. >>> >>> John K Clark >>> >> >> Show me the reasoning ability. Nothing miraculous in recognizing the >> questions beforehand, and giving accurate replies. AG >> > > Algorithms are if anything formal systems of reasoning. A computer follows > a sequenced set of logical instructions that emulate reasoning, and could > be said to be a scripted system of reasoning. What is more difficult to > know is if there is anything really conscious in this. > > LC >
Deep nets are "algorithms" too. One can print out the gazillion weights of the "neural" sigmoid functions of the connections after it has deep-learned. That's just an algorithm that a human couldn't read very well, because if it is printed out, would be quite big. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/fd3affb9-2579-482d-95ff-3ec840760bf5%40googlegroups.com.
