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minus-squareNaibofTabrlinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 hours agoThis 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.
minus-squareBJWlinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 hours agoThat’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.
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.
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.