Comment by voidhorse
2 days ago
It's already wrong at the first step. A probabilistic system is by definition not a function (it is a relation). This is such a basic mistake I don't know how anyone can take this seriously. Many existing systems are also not strictly functions (internal state can make them return different outputs for a given input). People love to abuse mathematics and employ its concepts hastily and irresponsibly.
The fact that the author is a data scientist at Anthropic should start ringing alarm bells for anyone paying attention. Isn’t Claude supposed to be at the front of the pack? To be honest I have a suspicion that Claude wrote the lions share of this essay. It’s that incomprehensible and soaked in jargon and formulas used completely out of context and incorrectly.
Their job, in this case, is probably more of a signal than a clear indicator
Plenty of front-running companies have hired plenty of…not-solid or excessively imaginative data scientists
From what the other comments say, this one seems to lack a grounding in science itself, which frankly is par for the course depending on their background