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1 year ago in Robotics By Neethi

How can deterministic machines become intelligent?

How can deterministic systems, like classical computers, exhibit or simulate intelligence through algorithms and data?

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By Shreya K Answered 1 year ago

Intelligence emerges from software, not hardware. Machines learn from data to find patterns and make probabilistic decisions, moving beyond pre-programmed determinism. A basic algorithm to understand this is k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN). It classifies new data points based on the majority label of the 'k' most similar examples in its memory. This demonstrates a core intelligent concept: learning from past examples (experience) to generalize and make decisions about new, unseen situations.

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