A couple of times people have mentioned hand-crafted features vs. just letting machines figure it all out for themselves. In future I’ll just point people to the excellent essay here
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@dpiponi any input that was acquired by built-in hardware or software is a feature.
1. There's no harm in providing pre-computed features along with the original input.
2. Without giving the machine the ability to extend its sources of input i.e. the ability for itself to build a tool that allows it e.g. to look into the eyes of the opposing chess player or to browse the Web freely, it's still being fed features.
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