I agree it’s not a valid argument. I’m not sure about ‘dishonest’ though. They could just be genuinely confused about this. I was surprised how many people in machine learning seem to think the universal approximation theorem explains why deep learning works.
Good point, I shouldn’t have said dishonest. For some reason while writing the comment I was thinking of it as deliberately throwing vaguely related math at the viewer and trusting that they won’t understand it. But yeah likely it’s just a misunderstanding.
I agree it’s not a valid argument. I’m not sure about ‘dishonest’ though. They could just be genuinely confused about this. I was surprised how many people in machine learning seem to think the universal approximation theorem explains why deep learning works.
Good point, I shouldn’t have said dishonest. For some reason while writing the comment I was thinking of it as deliberately throwing vaguely related math at the viewer and trusting that they won’t understand it. But yeah likely it’s just a misunderstanding.