matthewr
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If your definition of "programmer" is stupidly wide enough, it kind-of is. Most machine learning is back-propagation algorithms isn't it?
My point was that it's not someone sitting down and writing a program, not even a declarative one. It's a more a complicated process or system driven by very large amounts of data and learning over an extremely high level of repetitions.
And of course to note my disdain for the it's not intelligence because *waves hands* metaphysics, the possibility of Cav coming with a more nuanced explanation notwithstanding.