2026-05-09 07:33 UTC
Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark:
> Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20071869
Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you...
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@olivia@scholar.social 2026-05-09 07:34
Here are some flagrant examples, although the appendix is full of them of them too — basically experts and journalists alike seem to repeat this mantra that we do not understand how contemporary AI works. See appendix at the end here for more: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20071869 2/
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@ojensen@hachyderm.io 2026-05-11 08:31
@olivia@scholar.social I'm curious, did you have to physically restrain yourself from keeping "even if opened" on the right side of figure 1?
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@s0@cathode.church 2026-05-12 22:26
@olivia@scholar.social this is the least important nitpick ever but in that very first figure you illustrate, you say “moving clockwise” but the diagram moves counterclockwise.
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@olivia@scholar.social 2026-05-14 06:31
@sharlatan@mastodon.social oh, nice, enjoy