• perviouslyiner@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It was a staple of Asimov’s books that while trying to predict decisions of the robot brain, nobody in that world ever understood how they fundamentally worked.

    He said that while the first few generations were programmed by humans, everything since that was programmed by the previous generation of programs.

    This leads us to Asimov’s world in which nobody is even remotely capable of creating programs that violate the assumptions built into the first iteration of these systems - are we at that point now?

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      No. Programs cannot reprogram themselves in a useful way and are very very far from it.

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        Eh, I’d say continuous training models are pretty close to this. Adapting to changing conditions and new input is kinda what they’re for.

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          Very far from reprogramming though. The general shape of the NN doesn’t change, you won’t get a NN made to process images to suddenly process code just by training it.