• @Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
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    413 hours ago

    Fundamentally 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.

    • BJW
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      -16 hours ago

      That’s because taking a picture is an idetic copy. Machine learning is NOT copying, it’s learning - hence the name.

      • NaibofTabr
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        06 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.

        • BJW
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          14 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.