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> they cannot do causal graph analysis

I mean the ANN in the inference stage when run does not draw up a nice graph, doesn't calculate weights, doesn't write down pretty little Bayesian formulas, it does whatever is encoder in the matrices-innerproduct-context.

And it's accurate in a lot of cases (because there's sufficient abstract similarity in the training data), and that's what I meant by "of course it'll likely be useful in many cases".

At least this is my current "understanding", I haven't had time to dig into the papers unfortunately. Thanks for the further recommendation!

What seems very much missing is characterizing the reasoning that is going on. Its limitations, functional dependencies, etc.