learning is hard and slow

learning is hard and slow

I've finished the second book in a series of machine learning documents that is recommended for beginners. It is almost the same as the first one and contains things that I already knew. Hence I recognized how hard and long the pursuit of knowledge is.

It takes months for a baby to learn their first word, with hundreds to thousands of attempts and corrections from the parents. The acquisition of other skills is the same: we must try and adjust many times before we "learn" those skills perfectly. There are some ways to learn better than others, but there are no shortcuts in developing knowledge.

When I studied machine learning, I found that artificial intelligence acts the same as natural one. The machine has a ton of data to learn from, but how many times does it need to process that information? Like us, it reads the data again and again, tries and adjusts itself until insights are archived. The learning process of a computer is mostly not complex, but the summary of trillions simple calculations.

In summary, all the intelligence systems are learning in a dummy way. And it may be the only way possible for us.

007 - jaken - 06/11/2023