Comment on Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
It is actually not like a person learning at all. The only way you could believe this is if you have no grasp of the mathematics that are the basis of the multi-dimensional statistical analysis which is neural network training, and haven’t bothered to do any reading on it.