2026-06-11
Why Does AI Output Probabilities Instead of Rules?
Today's AI is not a machine that executes rules written by humans; it is a machine that outputs probabilities, such as "93% likely spam," based on patterns it finds in data on its own. Problems with clear conditions, like bank transfers, are solved perfectly by rule-based code, but rules collapse on problems with many exceptions and blurry boundaries, like image recognition. Machine learning and deep learning emerged from this failure of rule-based systems, and this distinction becomes the first criterion for decomposing work in AX consulting.
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