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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Google AI
« on: June 26, 2018, 03:30:17 AM »
Machine learning would be the ultimate answer to earth's shape. Not even Tom Bishop would argue because it is based on observable science. You don't give ML any assumptions. You just feed it data and it iterates repeatedly until it finds the answer. The problem with ML in today's format, is that whilst we'd end up knowing what shape the earth is, we'd have no idea how the machine came to that conclusion, we'd only know it is right. Much like we have no idea how Google's AI plays chess. It just does it.
Why would you think this? When humans look at the evidence and show proof that the Earth is round, you discount the evidence. When AI comes along, are you going to withhold from it pictures from space? Will you tell it that there are no power lines over Lake Pontchartrain? That the sun doesn't move across the sky at a constant rate of 15 degrees per hour?
I see no reason why flat Earth adherents couldn't either insist on omitting large portions of relevant evidence, or just dismissing outright any conclusions that differ from their preconceived flat Earth model.