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by SubiculumCode 1816 days ago
Exactly. It is a social commentary story where a result from a student's project was a lucid analogy of the plight of their lived rat-race in modern China, with the lesson being: Cut your losses and lie flat. To those within ML field, this is less than new, but as a commentary on how such ML issues can be a teachable and easily understood analogy to people's lives certainly makes the story interesting to me.
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Spot on. Funny results from poorly specified AI experiments have cropped up since the 90's. But the interestingly angel her is how this one came out of nowhere at the right time and resonated with young working class Chinese.