Could you use a big curve to predict the weather? Yes, given enormous amounts of data. We're already doing it! To make a wind chamber simulator? Yes, if you can keep as many parameters as possible fixed, and if you can densely sample training data for the parameters that do vary
@fchollet
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ML Research and Applied ML Require Different Skill Sets
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The skills needed for developing new ML techniques have little overlap with the skills needed for applying ML effectively. A bit like how chip design has little overlap with software engineering.
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Keras Starter Notebook for Kaggle Brain Activity Classification
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Are you doing the 'Harmful Brain Activity Classification' competition on Kaggle? Check out this neat Keras starter notebook:
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AI Usage Does Not Provide the Writing Advantage Assumed
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Using AI is not the unfair writing advantage you think it is.
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LLMs Diminish Writing Quality: Practical Experience
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Countless times, I've tried using LLMs to help with writing blog posts, book chapters, tweets. I've consistently found that it made my writing worse and was a waste of time. The most I ended up incorporating in a final product is one sentence in one blog post.
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LLM Usage in Student Essays: Plagiarism Matters More Than Tool
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My take: if an essay isn't plagiarized, then it's not that important whether it was written with the help of a LLM or not. If you're really worried about it, just have the students write the essays during class.
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ML classifiers cannot reliably detect LLM-generated text
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Remember: a ML classifier cannot reliably tell you whether some text was generated by a LLM or not. There are no surefire features, and spurious correlations abound. Besides, it's not ethically sound to punish someone based on a classification decision made by an algorithm with
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Logical fallacy: Equating two misunderstood phenomena
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Up there with "I don't understand consciousness; I don't understand quantum physics; therefore consciousness is quantum"
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Anthropomorphizing AI: Avoiding Precise Definitions of Model Faculties
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Step 1: anthropomorphize AI models by claiming they possess various human faculties. Stay away from any precise definition of the faculties, and assert that the claim is self-evident because AI models can show human-like outputs in certain situations. Step 2: when evidence of
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Consciousness in humans versus AI systems: evidence and distinction
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New twist on this: "there is no evidence that humans are conscious, either!" (We are inundated with evidence that humans and most animals around us are sentient and conscious, unlike hashtables, parametric curves, and related data retrieval systems)