>> The predictive model output the anxiety, using reasoning like “if you talk, people will hate you, and the prospect of being hated should make you anxious – therefore, anxiety”, but not any of the intermediate steps.
That really makes it sound like poor Richard was some kind of robot with an AI that used some kind of machine learning algorithm to build models etc.
It sounds a bit silly to be honest, like taking an analogy ("the human mind builds a model of the world"), mashing it up with some currently trendy terminology ("machine learning model") and then running with the result until it's stretched out to an absurd extent and you can't tell what the words mean anymore.
That really makes it sound like poor Richard was some kind of robot with an AI that used some kind of machine learning algorithm to build models etc.
It sounds a bit silly to be honest, like taking an analogy ("the human mind builds a model of the world"), mashing it up with some currently trendy terminology ("machine learning model") and then running with the result until it's stretched out to an absurd extent and you can't tell what the words mean anymore.