"If you’ve ever done basic programming, or even used HTML to design a website, you’ve used a **rules-based program**. You create a list of commands, or rules, in a language the computer can understand, and the **computer does exactly what you say**. To solve a problem with a rules-based program, **you have to know every step required to complete the program’s task and how to describe each one of those steps**. **But a machine learning algorithm figures out the rules for itself via trial and error, gauging its success on goals the programmer has specified**. The goal could be a list of examples to imitate, a game score to increase, or anything else. As the AI tries to reach this goal, **it can discover rules and correlations that the programmer didn’t even know existed**. Programming an AI is almost more like teaching a child than programming a computer.” --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[artificial-intelligence]], [[ai-biases-problems]], **Source** — [[202307171347 — B — You Look Like a Thing and I Love You]]