Central bankers are supposed to be a rather dour lot. They are charged, after all, with maintaining the monetary and financial integrity of the whole economy. They cultivate a public reputation as prudent, cautious guardians of price stability — an independent, reliable force, ready to pounce at the first signs of economic overheating and inflationary pressure. They are the ones wh…
Thus we are not going to talk about the consequences that the new wave in AI might have for the empiricism/rationalism debate (see Buckner 2018), nor are we going to consider—much—the question of whether it is reasonable to say that what these programs do is ‘learning’ in anything like the sense with which we are familiar (Buckner 2019, 4.2), and we’ll pass over interestin…