Appendix A
Model Explainability
“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin..”
—John Von Neumann
We could put it down abruptly like this: machine learning today is not really as intelligent as media (and even common sense) lead us to think. Worse yet, from a pure perspective of applied intelligence, an expert system—a primordial form of software intelligence than deep learning and neural networks—are more intelligent. So, what is intelligence, and what is intelligence in software?
Although with slightly different wording, nearly all worldwide dictionaries provide a definition of intelligence that goes with the following statement:
The ability to acquire knowledge and turn that ...
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