druffischnuffi

druffischnuffi t1_j6w60ce wrote

Reply to Rivers of the World! coloured according to the major hydrological basins they are part of. [OC] by symmy546

I live close to the divide between Rhine and Danube (green and red). It is amazing how the Rhine flows in a semicircle around the Danube basin.

It gets really weird since a part of the Danube water sinks into the ground, crosses the divide through cracks in the earth and later enters the Rhine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Sinkhole

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druffischnuffi t1_iym6mjv wrote

Reply to comment by Difficult-Race-1188 in [D] Neural Networks are just a bunch of Decision Trees by Difficult-Race-1188

I agree. That is very unsatisfactory. I also think that NNs are often being overestimated.

However, I think what is lacking in the line of reasoning is a positive definition of true learning. A test that an AI must pass if it is truly learning.

I myself would not consider myself able of generalizing a set of samples to the above equation. So does that mean I cannot learn?

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druffischnuffi t1_iylvkt0 wrote

Reply to [D] Neural Networks are just a bunch of Decision Trees by Difficult-Race-1188

I still do not get why people keep saying that AI is "not truly learning" or "not actually intelligent".

They always invent some weird criteria that a "true AI" would need to satisfy, for example that it can learn affine transformations without being taught to or that it must be immune to adversarial attacks.

If you think you are truly learning because your brain figured out affine transformations on its own, try reading a book upside down

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druffischnuffi t1_iwlgr17 wrote

Reply to Research shows land that often lies fallow or is poor in soil quality — across the United States would provide enough biomass feedstock to meet the liquid fuel demands of the U.S. aviation sector fully from biofuels, an amount expected to reach 30 billion gallons per year by 2040. by Wagamaga

TIL that land is not scarce at all and neither is fertilizer, water for irrigation, etc.

Do people really believe this "research"?

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