Beyond the Buzzwords: What Is Machine Learning, Really? - Victor Nava

A clear, math-based explanation of what machine learning is and how it works; no code, just core concepts.

Victor Nava

A hearty "fuck you" in advance to the person who inevitably writes the obituary of someone they (purportedly) care about by telling some conversational AI like ChatGPT or something to do it for them.

#AI #prediction #conversationalai #learningalgorithms

#HumanBrain: #dopamine
#ReinforcementLearning: #reward
#MachineLearning: (negative) #loss
#MarketEconomy: #currency
#Democracy: #votes
#Evolution: #fitness

#LearningAlgorithms are everywhere, and they all follows the same basic principle: Measure #quality in some way, and then #optimize that #metric.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. We are all learning systems, embedded in learning systems, embedded in learning systems, and it is beautiful.