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0 pointsvarjag12y ago0 comments

Well my point was rather practical than philosophical: if you take a human at say classification task, they'd be able to explain why they identify bicycle as bicycle and not, say, bulldozer. You can't readily have this with ANNs; all you have is a bunch of weight coefficients and feedback loops.

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chongli12y ago

if you take a human at say classification task, they'd be able to explain why they identify bicycle as bicycle and not, say, bulldozer.

I don't think this is such an easy task. In the professional world of scientific taxonomy there are many problems with classification. The problem seems to stem from the tension between intensional and extensional definitions.

varjagOP12y ago

Yes but you still are able to verbalize these problems, quite unlike when you stuck with a misfiring ANN. In symbolic approaches, e.g. inference engines, you have comparable explanatory facilities.

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chongli12y ago

if you take a human at say classification task, they'd be able to explain why they identify bicycle as bicycle and not, say, bulldozer.

varjagOP12y ago

Yes but you still are able to verbalize these problems, quite unlike when you stuck with a misfiring ANN. In symbolic approaches, e.g. inference engines, you have comparable explanatory facilities.

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