Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
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Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
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Re: Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
#2"The work may also have wider implications. The fields of statistics and, in particular, machine learning, may have something to learn from this inner statistician. "Humans are still better than computers at solving really difficult problems," says Kepecs."
Intuitive as Statistics is simply one of the many tools we humans use to tackle difficult problems, but definitely not the only one.
Re: Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
#3"The work may also have wider implications. The fields of statistics and, in particular, machine learning, may have something to learn from this inner statistician. "Humans are still better than computers at solving really difficult problems," says Kepecs." Intuitive as Statistics is simply one of the many tools we humans use to tackle difficult problems, but definitely not the only one.
But it is a little disheartening (yet also exciting) to think that when an AI is eventually developed with a human's intuition, creativity, and learning ability, we'll essentially have no advantages over them.
Re: Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
#4And water is wet. Er, almost certainly.
Re: Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
#5It's interesting how the reification of statistical reasoning, that is, understanding statistics symbolically and applying it to abstract symbols is far more fraught than the implicit statistical reasoning that this article describes.
Re: Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
#6Well, that's another nail in the coffin for all nonprobabilistic views of cognition.
Re: Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
#7"The work may also have wider implications. The fields of statistics and, in particular, machine learning, may have something to learn from this inner statistician. "Humans are still better than computers at solving really difficult problems," says Kepecs." Intuitive as Statistics is simply one of the many tools we humans use to tackle difficult problems, but definitely not the only one.
But it is a little disheartening (yet also exciting) to think that when an AI is eventually developed with a human's intuition, creativity, and learning ability, we'll essentially have no advantages over them.
Why should we have an advantage ?
Re: Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
#8"The work may also have wider implications. The fields of statistics and, in particular, machine learning, may have something to learn from this inner statistician. "Humans are still better than computers at solving really difficult problems," says Kepecs." Intuitive as Statistics is simply one of the many tools we humans use to tackle difficult problems, but definitely not the only one.
But it is a little disheartening (yet also exciting) to think that when an AI is eventually developed with a human's intuition, creativity, and learning ability, we'll essentially have no advantages over them.
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Re: Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
#9It's interesting how the reification of statistical reasoning, that is, understanding statistics symbolically and applying it to abstract symbols is far more fraught than the implicit statistical reasoning that this article describes.
Your brain is also able to calculate the parabolic arc of a baseball someone threw to you whether or not you could ever do it on paper.
Re: Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
#10I think the crowd that maintains statistical machine learning is not 'real' AI should read this study.