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shompyblah t1_iyd6pzc wrote

Reply to comment by just_a_pyro in ELI5: How does machine learning work? by Nightmarewasta

….but a computer doesn’t care if it’s rewarded or punished.

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Liese1otte t1_iydcsvk wrote

Correct!

However, this is just an analogy. In reality programmers simulate "reward" and "punishment" using different techniques that effectively result in the same thing happening. In neural networks, those are represented in weights in biases, for example.

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just_a_pyro t1_iyd8i1z wrote

It does, or maybe it simulates caring, that's the whole idea of machine learning, if it didn't care there would be no reason to change the original random playing to play better.

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