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Ok, it's a best fit line on an n-dimentional matrix querying a graphdb ;)
My only point is that this isn't AGI and too many people still fail to recognize that. Now people are becoming disillusioned with it because they're realizing it isn't actually creative. It's still still just a fancy comparison engine. That's not not world changing, but it's also not Data from Star Trek
I get that, but what I'm saying is that calling deep learning "just fancy comparison engine" frames the concept in an unnecessarily pessimistic and sneery way. It's more illuminating to look at the considerable mileage that "just pattern matching" yields, not only for the practical engineering applications, but for the cognitive scientist and theoretician.
Furthermore, what constitutes being "actually creative"? Consider DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero model:
Professional Go players and champions concede that the model developed novel styles and strategies that now influence how humans approach the game. If that can't be considered a true spark of creativity, what can?