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> It doesn't learn what a noun is or english is, its a statistical mapping that just tends to work well.

The word for creating that statistical map is "learning".

Now, you could argue that gradient descent or genetic algorithms or whatever else we have are "slow learners", I'd agree with that, but the weights and biases in any ML model are most definitely "learned".



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