Comment by hammyhavoc
3 years ago
Is it any more reasoning than Bayes' theorem is reasoning? It's statistics and derived probability from said statistics.
3 years ago
Is it any more reasoning than Bayes' theorem is reasoning? It's statistics and derived probability from said statistics.
> Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available.
That is very clearly reasoning
No, it's probability entered into an algorithm as a variable. This is not reasoning, this is probability, and there is no reasoning involved.
Go and program HomeAssistant (FOSS) with an automation using Bayes' theorem. Then proceed to laugh about all the fail states you encounter, thus realizing it is not reasoning, but probability. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-bayes-sensors-work...
It's quite literally known as Bayesian probability.
I will admit that I don't know much about Bayesian statistics, but how does something producing probability as an output mean it's not reasoning? I'm pretty sure humans do that consciously and subconsciously all the time and we call that reasoning
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