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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

it's happening omg. check back in five years

https://awful.systems/comment/3766257

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

From your linked post:

also from their pov the statistical approach to machine learning was defined by abandoning the attempt to externalize the meaning of text. the cliche they used to refer to this was “the meaning of a word is the context in which it occurs.”

Not an expert by any means, but this sounds like pagerank, but for language.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

To me it sounds like post-modernism.

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