• Veraticus@lib.lgbtOP
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    1 year ago

    No one is saying “they’re useless.” But they are indeed bullshit machines, for the reasons the author (and you yourself) acknowledged. Their purposes is to choose likely words. That likely and correct are frequently the same shouldn’t blind us to the fact that correctness is a coincidence.

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      1 year ago

      That likely and correct are frequently the same shouldn’t blind us to the fact that correctness is a coincidence.

      That’s an absurd statement. Do you have any experience with machine learning?

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          Yes, it’s been my career for the last two decades and before that was the focus of my education. The idea that “correctness is a coincidence” is absurd and either fails to understand how training works or rejects the entire premise of large data revealing functional relationships in the underlying processes.