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by nl 2139 days ago
> It seems it’s still an open question whether AI is just about memorizing your data,

No - it's not at all, and this is a well understood problem in building machine learning systems. There are some cases where this occurs but usually this is just overfitting.

Good AI systems generalize well on unseen data.

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To the downvoters, I give you AlphaZero.

Not only is every game of Go it plays and wins brand new (so no memorisation), the same system learnt to play Chess without knowing the rules, and plays in a "style .. unlike any traditional chess engine"

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphazero-shedding-new-lig...