but hypothesis generation over poorly structured, arbitrarily complex environments is vastly harder.
Hypothesis generation over environments that aren’t massively less complex than the machine is vastly harder, and remains vastly harder (albeit there are advances). There’s a subtle problem substitution occurring which steals the thunder you originally reserved for something that actually is vastly harder.
Thing is, many people could at any time write a loop over, say, possible neural network values, and NNs (with feedback) being Turing complete, it’d work roughly the same. Said for loop would be massively, massively less complicated, ingenious, and creative than what those people actually did with their time instead.
The ridiculousness here is that, say, John worked on those ingenious algorithms while keeping in mind that the ideal is the best parameters out of the whole space (which is the abstract concept behind the for loop iteration over those parameters). You couldn’t see what John was doing because he didn’t write it out as a for loop. So James does some work where he—unlike John—has to write out the for loop explicitly, and you go Whoah!
That is (to my knowledge) new
Isn’t. See Solomonoff induction, works of Kolmogorov, etc.
Hypothesis generation over environments that aren’t massively less complex than the machine is vastly harder, and remains vastly harder (albeit there are advances). There’s a subtle problem substitution occurring which steals the thunder you originally reserved for something that actually is vastly harder.
Thing is, many people could at any time write a loop over, say, possible neural network values, and NNs (with feedback) being Turing complete, it’d work roughly the same. Said for loop would be massively, massively less complicated, ingenious, and creative than what those people actually did with their time instead.
The ridiculousness here is that, say, John worked on those ingenious algorithms while keeping in mind that the ideal is the best parameters out of the whole space (which is the abstract concept behind the for loop iteration over those parameters). You couldn’t see what John was doing because he didn’t write it out as a for loop. So James does some work where he—unlike John—has to write out the for loop explicitly, and you go Whoah!
Isn’t. See Solomonoff induction, works of Kolmogorov, etc.