Does this count as “rational, deliberate design”? I think a case could be made for both yes and no, but I lean towards no. Humans who have studied a certain subject often develop a good intuition for what will work and what won’t and I think deep learning captures that; you can get right answers at an acceptable rate without knowing why. This is not quite rational deliberation based on theory.
But it shows that you don’t necessarily need to rely strictly on experimentation! Certainly it still relies on it, but humans have been doing this sort of thing for a while. While I agree it’s the case that people still have to do a lot of experiments historically, it’s quite possible to have very detailed sketches of what can and can’t be done.
Does this count as “rational, deliberate design”? I think a case could be made for both yes and no, but I lean towards no. Humans who have studied a certain subject often develop a good intuition for what will work and what won’t and I think deep learning captures that; you can get right answers at an acceptable rate without knowing why. This is not quite rational deliberation based on theory.
But it shows that you don’t necessarily need to rely strictly on experimentation! Certainly it still relies on it, but humans have been doing this sort of thing for a while. While I agree it’s the case that people still have to do a lot of experiments historically, it’s quite possible to have very detailed sketches of what can and can’t be done.