Lotfi Zadeh and the birth of Fuzzy Logic
@lupyuen
> “Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. “The danger of fuzzy theory is that it will encourage the sort of imprecise thinking that has brought us so much trouble.”
and here we are, in a world where AI models nobody can comprehend are the rule. used to decide upon important things everywhere - for better or worse.
@lupyuen btw. i hit a paywall reading the article, 12ft.io worked :P
@bonifartius
Thanks! I've been looking for a solution for this.
@lupyuen
@lupyuen I haven't heard much of Fuzzy Logic besides from commercials and dubious science journalism, so I assumed it was just marketing. I'm still skeptical about its application in Japanese electronics. To me, few appliances do anything more than reading sensor values and make adjustments using fixed thresholds or linear parameters