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Aren't all current machine learning approaches statistical approaches using Bayesian estimation?


Not really.. they're often statistically based, but don't need to use Bayes' Theorem or be based on a Bayes Network. They are driven by expectation maximization and stochastic gradient descent, mainly. An autodifferentiation back-propagates the parameter update through a neural network model, but the network doesn't necessarily represent a Bayes Network.


If that were the case, that wouldn't be just one of the covered concepts in the proposed law. We should not assume world-shaking incompetence.


What do you mean by “current”?




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