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<div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I like the analogous theme of AI to Alchemy. It describes my thoughts exactly. We know enough to blow ourselves up if improperly applied, but we can get some quite amazing results as well. It is important to realize our lack of understanding and study it with great rigor. I also like the fact that as alchemists were swimming in chemical reactions but were completely clueless to the complexity of the subject. It's good to use history as a guide for understanding similar situations. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">History never repeats, but it often rhymes.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Great Article!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">John Vaughters</div>
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On Sunday, September 15, 2019, 6:07:18 PM EDT, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Here's another data point about the intellectual debt involved with<br clear="none">machine learning, in particular ML and autonomous military weapons. The<br clear="none">parallel drawn between ML and alchemy is especially interesting. I'm not<br clear="none">sure if this is some sort of rendezvous with John's position, but it has<br clear="none">given me more clarity.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/05/magical-thinking-about-machine-learning-will-not-bring-artificial-intelligence-any-closer?CMP=share_btn_link" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/05/magical-thinking-about-machine-learning-will-not-bring-artificial-intelligence-any-closer?CMP=share_btn_link</a><div class="yqt2448887595" id="yqtfd25760"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-Pete<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list<br clear="none"><br clear="none">To post message: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org" href="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org">TriEmbed@triembed.org</a><br clear="none">List info: <a shape="rect" href="http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org" target="_blank">http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org</a><br clear="none">TriEmbed web site: <a shape="rect" href="http://TriEmbed.org" target="_blank">http://TriEmbed.org</a><br clear="none">To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:unsubscribe-TriEmbed@bitser.net" href="mailto:unsubscribe-TriEmbed@bitser.net">unsubscribe-TriEmbed@bitser.net</a>?subject=unsubscribe<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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