Comment on Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 16 hours agoFundamentally that’s a purely ethical decision about whether a machine doing something should be treated with the same understanding the same as a human would. But we don’t consider remembering something with a neurochemical storage the samd as taking a picture of something even if they’re basically the same.
Epp@lemmus.org 9 hours ago
That’s because taking a picture is an idetic copy. Machine learning is NOT copying, it’s learning - hence the name.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
This is a misunderstanding based on confusion between technical and colloquial terminology.
A machine learning model “learns” information in the same way that a curve fitting algorithm “learns” the shape of a data set.
This is not the same as the colloquial meaning of human learning. It is a mathematical process.
Epp@lemmus.org 7 hours ago
That’s splitting hairs on definitions, with no change in meaning. It’s still not copying the data, and is far closer to a person learning than to a picture taken by a camera.