I like the analogous theme of AI to Alchemy. It describes my thoughts exactly. 
We know enough to blow ourselves up if improperly applied, but we can get some 
quite amazing results as well. It is important to realize our lack of 
understanding and study it with great rigor. I also like the fact that as 
alchemists were swimming in chemical reactions but were completely clueless to 
the complexity of the subject. It's good to use history as a guide for 
understanding similar situations. 
History never repeats, but it often rhymes.
Great Article!
John Vaughters    On Sunday, September 15, 2019, 6:07:18 PM EDT, Pete Soper via 
TriEmbed <[email protected]> wrote:  
 
 Here's another data point about the intellectual debt involved with
machine learning, in particular ML and autonomous military weapons. The
parallel drawn between ML and alchemy is especially interesting. I'm not
sure if this is some sort of rendezvous with John's position, but it has
given me more clarity.

  
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/05/magical-thinking-about-machine-learning-will-not-bring-artificial-intelligence-any-closer?CMP=share_btn_link


-Pete




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