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Devac  ·  2573 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's wrong with big data?

    This is what gets me with people who believe that AI will lead to scientific results beyond the ability of humans to comprehend.

I think it's a moving goalpost when it comes to our ability to comprehend things. As little as 150 years ago you would likely be hardpressed to find a genius capable of catching up and understanding results of path integrals (in a reasonable amount of time), right now it's something that's taught even to econ majors in an entirely different, unexpected, context.

Sorry, I'm one of those "IQ isn't a factor, it's about the grokking time" optimists. ;)





lm  ·  2573 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, I'm not opposed to using computers as tools to expand human understanding...I'm just mad at the Hacker News commenter types that are all "exponential growth means soon we will have computers producing results humans will never understand".