samloveshummus

samloveshummus t1_iwhwh8y wrote

Sure, but maybe it's inescapable.

When we recruit for a job, we first select a candidate from CVs and interviews, and only once we've chosen a candidate do we begin training them.

Do you think it makes sense to strive for a recruitment process that will get perfect results from any candidate, so we can stop wasting time on interviews and just hire whoever? Or is it inevitable that we have to select among candidates before we begin the training? Why should it be different for computers?

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samloveshummus t1_iw9i9t8 wrote

How is that "dumbing down"? Do you object to the term "neural network"? Do you object to the term "machine learning"? Can you explain the neurological importance of sleep and say why you think it should not be directly relevant to artificial intelligence? Are you assuming that sleep is a biological artifact, not a matter of information processing?

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samloveshummus t1_iw1qaft wrote

As well as what the other commenters are saying, sometimes deeper stuff takes longer to have an impact. If you look through the history of science (and human endeavor more generally), there are many famous examples of people whose work revolutionized our modern world, but who weren't recognized in their lifetime - society needed time to catch up.

Now I think we can do a lot better than that. We're a global civilization that communicates at lightspeed. However, we are still also big hairless apes with CPUs made of electric jelly, so we take a while to process things. The more unexpected, the more processing we need.

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samloveshummus t1_iw1oyhf wrote

>I would love if it were picked up as a standard, it seems like the kind of thing that might get rid of a lot of the worst seed hacking out there.

I don't want to be facetious, but what's wrong with "seed hacking"? Maybe that's a fundamental part of making a good model.

If we took someone other than Albert Einstein, and gave them the same education, the same career, the same influences and stresses, would that other person be equally as likely to realise how to explain the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, blackbody radiation, general relativity and E=mc^(2)? Or was there something special about Einstein's genes meaning we need those initial conditions and that training schedule for it to work.

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