Neil Brown on Nostr: Perhaps a lot of weight rests on "infers" here. My bash script is not "inferring" ...

Perhaps a lot of weight rests on "infers" here.

My bash script is not "inferring" anything: it is simply repeating something given to it.

But - using the example in the paper - is a system with camera taking action based on a pixel really "inferring" that that pixel represents a person, or just that it has been programmed to take a particular action if data pass certain tests?