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		sjducb 47 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI ... When algorithms improve with exposure to more data are they still algorithms? Where is the line where they stop being algorithms?

adammarples 47 days ago [–]

Because they're algorithms that have an algorithm (back propagation) that improves the other algorithm (forward propagation). Very roughly speaking.

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