[FRIAM] Epistemic Holography

[Marcus Daniels]

Eric writes:

“A colleague asked me last week (not a high level of domain familiarity, but a good mind overall), what will science become in the age of ML, where there can be claims about everything, but transparency about little of it.”

What transparency does one have about a new hire’s mind?   An employer may have a credential from a university, or a confirmed work history, or green wall of github commits from a credible open-source project, or a highly cited Google Scholar profile.  This doesn’t tell us anything about the mechanism of their reasoning; it remains a black box.   And yet LLM-based AI is held to a higher standard by some.  Why?

 

Marcus

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