BobDope

BobDope t1_jada0vt wrote

To elaborate, at the most basic level, the fact you are using a nonlinear activation function in neural nets makes it decidedly a different animal from ‘if then’. Although with tree models and such yea they are a very convoluted mess of if then statements no human programmer would wish to work out themselves. The recurring theme is these things increasingly run away from our ability to understand or reason about them, although many researchers are doing work in that area

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