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But it is, and it always has been. Absurdly complexly layered statistics, calculated faster than a human could.
This whole "we can't explain how it works" is bullshit from software engineers too lazy to unwind the emergent behavior caused by their code.
Well sure, but as someone else said even heat is statistics. Saying "ML is just statistics" is so reductionist as to be meaningless. Heat is just statistics. Biology is just physics. Forests are just trees.
Yeah, but the critical question is: is human intelligence statistics?
Seems no, to me: a human lawyer wouldn't, for instance, make up case law that doesn't exist. AI has done that one already. If it had even the most basic understanding of what the law is and does, it would have known not to do that.
This shit is just megahal on a gpu.
People confabulate all the time.
False memories can also be deliberately created. Here's a classic: https://www.washington.edu/news/2001/06/11/i-tawt-i-taw-a-bunny-wabbit-at-disneyland-new-evidence-shows-false-memories-can-be-created/