There are two kinds of computing - precision computing and probabilistic computing. For example, cryptography falls into precision computing. There is no room for being incorrect even by a single bit. Where as machine learning is about getting a range of answers, with tolerance for error. I like to visualize them as cuts and spans in a continuum, such as a number line. They make up the full picture. One exists only b…
> Banks wouldn't use AI to compute the account balance after a transaction or for authenticating a customer. Network software wouldn't use AI for encryption and decryption of the TLS traffic. Not directly, no. But they might use AI to write the code that computes account balance, or authenticates a user, or encrypts/decrypts TLS.
Re: Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
#111I was talking about "runtime" work. At runtime, the tasks I mentioned above, don't use AI to get work done. Coding ofcourse, falls under probabilistic task, as I mentioned.