• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I think state machines are cool and groovy. I still don’t understand genetic algorithms but I wish I did.

    15 years ago we were all saying “AI is just a series of IF statements” because of expert systems and y’all forgot

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      2 months ago

      Genetic algorithms kinda suck as they use random variations and breeding to solve a problem which is much slower than using backpropagation with any decent reward modeler. It’s the difference between selective breeding and gene splicing in the real world.