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Tim Andersen, Principal Research Scientist at Georgia Tech argues, Information is never without uncertainty.
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These days brain-inspired techniques have taken over Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a way that they never had decades ago.
Yet, skepticism over neural networks and their ability to mimic human intelligence remains strong, particularly among those with a strong mathematical background, because neural networks are, fundamentally, statistical instruments. They are nothing more nor less than a way of determining statistics from data and then mining those statistical insights for factors. Even decision making, which seems like a non-statistical activity, is statistical in that it represents the correlation between two spaces: that of data and that of decisions.
This article, however, is not about artificial intelligence but about the very nature of information. The overarching thesis is that all empirical knowledge is statistical...
What about words, are they statistical?
Words are a way of sharing digital information between people. When understood correctly, words are transmitted precisely though they may not be understood in exactly the same way. Words however are simply reflections of reality. They are expressions of what we perceive and so they are in essence just the end result of a statistical analysis.
Source: Medium
