[LINK] Machine Learning Was: Re: Robot cars and the fear gap

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 31/07/2016 8:13 PM, David Boxall wrote:
> On 31/07/2016 9:55 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> On 30/07/2016 11:59 PM, Stephen Loosley quoted:
>>> The best way to understand the test is to see a few samples in
>>> action. Take this question:
>>>
>>
>> People will never get used to AI systems because they are just too
>> stupid.
>>

To be clear, but I was posting an ambiguous sentence to add to the sample.

> Indeed. I've known many people who lacked common sense. Can we really
> have artificial intelligence if we don't have the other kind?
>
> Machine learning seems to be conflated with artificial intelligence.
> Are the two terms synonymous? Does a learning system really need
> intelligence?

IMHO, machine learning is purely a matter of data analysis and "curve"
fitting. A somewhat more advanced version of regression analysis.

Human learning and intelligence is a combination of the construction of
mental models and parameter estimation. Machine learning is mostly (if
not entirely) parameter estimation.

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Regards
brd

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