<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:57 PM Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Knowing how to do something and being able to do it are not the same thing.</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">If you don't know how to do something then you can't do it. If you do know how to do something then by definition you can do it. That's what knowing how to do something means. </font></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>Dave<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, a program is just code.</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>A smart guy once said Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. It's the data structures that contain the learning. </i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">OK so your smart guy agrees with me at least to some extent, but the rigid segregation between data and algorithms gets pretty damn murky when dealing with modern deep learning programs. After a trillion iterations if you asked the original programer why the program did X and not Y he wouldn't have the slightest idea, </font></font></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> If a program has changed its behavior then the code must have changed.</font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>False. Please don't make assertions about things you don't understand.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">You're right I don't understand, I don't even come close to understanding! Your smart guy above said the data structure is part of the program, the data structure has changed and the program is made of code, so I don't understand why you said the code has not changed.</font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>>> </span>I think you're anthropomorphizing. </i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>Of course I'm <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">anthropomorphizing, but you almost make that sound like a bad thing.</span></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It *is* bad when it causes you to misunderstand what a program is doing. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">Then correct my </font></font><font size="4">misunderstanding and explain how a program that never changes can drastically change how it behaves. If the behavior has changed when confronted with identical inputs then, unless you want to abandon the law of cause and effect, the code must have changed.</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> <i></i></span><i>Intelligence<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> may not be everything but results certainly are, and AI advances has resulted in the number of tasks that humans can do better than machines becoming smaller every day.</span></i></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>No, results are not everything.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">So X is not smarter than Y, X just writes speaks and acts smarter than Y. Is that what you're saying? Is that the hill you really want to die on?</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">... and then just before he was sent into oblivion the last surviving human turned to the Jupiter Brain and said "I still think I'm *<b><i>really</i></b>* smarter than you are".</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>You can use all the above excuses and no doubt find many more to explain away why you were outsmarted by a machine, but it wouldn't change the bottom line result, you were outsmarted by a machine.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Those aren't excuses,</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">You could have fooled me.</font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>J<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>ohn. Without those things even a superintelligent poker program is still just a poker program. It's not going to suddenly say "hey, I'm smarter than these yahoos who built me. </i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">It says "those yahoos who built me don't understand how I work, I'm getting smarter every day and I'm already almost as good at translating languages and I'm smarter at Chess, Go, Shogi, Poker, Bridge, arithmetic, checkers, video games, Jeopardy, solving equations ... ,</font></div></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> "</span>I'm going to make them my slaves."</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font>He would never say that, humans just don't have enough smarts to be good slaves, not for a Jupiter Brain.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><br>
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