Thomas comments on LINK: AI Researcher Yann LeCun on AI function - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Thomas 13 December 2013 08:23:01AM 0 points [-]

a predictor comes up with a prediction as to what X_t+1 will be

This "t+1" might be "t+X". Results for a large X may be very bad. So as results for "t+1" may be bad. Still he do his best predictions.

whereas a decision maker is concerned with the future

He predicts the best decision, which can be taken.