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Ep 244: Deep learning is not "inductive".
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- Aug 22, 2025
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Summary
We are told by people working in the field, researchers and those who publish academic papers on the topic that artificial intelligence or deep learning or LLMs or Machine Learning or Recurrent Neural Networks - call them what you like - employ some form of inductive reasoning. But do they? What is inductive reasoning? What is deductive or adductive for that matter? Is "new physics" or other new science being discovered by the most recent and best chatbots or other "artificially intelligent" computer systems? My response to all that is contained herein. For images see: https://youtu.be/9Dimv7mOls4 For more information: https://www.bretthall.org/blog/induction