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THE MACHINE MIND · Ep. 11

The Tightrope

Why does your AI get simple maths wrong when it answers fast?

The film asks: Do you ask to see the steps? · Always / Only for maths / Never thought to

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  1. Why does your AI get simple maths wrong when it answers fast?
  2. Because it can only think out loud. An answer in one leap is a guess in a costume.
  3. The sum is a tightrope. Leap for the far side and it falls, certain all the way down.
  4. Walk it one step at a time, each step written down, and it gets across.
  5. So ask for the working. The steps are the thinking.
  6. Do you ask to see the steps?

11). A circus at night. A tightrope crosses the ring, from the question to the answer. The performer (the machine) leaps for the far side and falls, sure of itself all the way down, into the net. Then it walks the rope one step at a time; each step it takes leaves a written step on a chalkboard beside the ring, and it arrives.

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