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Can you please define this term "cloud technology"? I always thought it was a marketing term for "the internet", which then would be just a bunch of servers, vms, and containers; all of which we have had for over 20 years.
What is novel about "the internet"? We've been sending data over telegraph wires for nearly 200 years. The Internet is just someone else's cable.
There's more applied AI than there's research.
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I disagree. Practically all breakthroughs in computing science were always 30 years old when they finally became common and useful parts of everyday society. If the breakthrough of modern AI is just as old and we're just now seeing it implemented everywhere, that's not a sign of a crash.
What do you see as the basic design of modern AI? The 30 year old discipline of symbolic AI doesn't have much to do with today's statistical AI.
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What is novel about "the internet"? We've been sending data over telegraph wires for nearly 200 years. The Internet is just someone else's cable.
That was my point, you just went back further in history than I did :p
I swear the tech industry has more luddites than the Amish.
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I disagree. Practically all breakthroughs in computing science were always 30 years old when they finally became common and useful parts of everyday society. If the breakthrough of modern AI is just as old and we're just now seeing it implemented everywhere, that's not a sign of a crash.
What do you see as the basic design of modern AI? The 30 year old discipline of symbolic AI doesn't have much to do with today's statistical AI.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron
Statical AI was delayed in practice because it was far more expensive than symbolic AI.
Real intelligence is whatever computers can't do yet. Some think this is because we have such an impoverished grasp of intelligence, that it's only when we see a computer actually do it that we realize it doesn't really represent intelligence (logical deduction and inference, rudimentary natural language understanding, expert systems, chess, speech recognition, image recognition). Machines and tools that perform bett…
Finally a realistic view of where “artificial intelligence” currently stands. I wish I knew where guys like Elon Musk are seeing this other artificial intelligence I’m just not seeing. The current AI we have is just fancy linear regression.
All AI is just objective minimization. AI cannot solve the halting problem or perform Solomonoff induction.
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Sorry but that's a ridiculous statement. It's like saying all the cloud technology we have today is not much more than having VMs. Yes, AI is hyped, but it made some very unexpected progress over the past 5 years (e.g., solving facial recognition). More than many experts expected.
"It's like saying all the cloud technology we have today is not much more than having VMs." No shit? Unless you mean that it's ignoring the "distributed systems" part of the cloud, which is mostly a shitshow. The provisioning/configuration-management stacks are all complete wrecks, stacking hacks atop ad-hoc container schemes atop a poorly-design OS. A real distributed OS would be so much simpler and more robust. Cal…
If I had a SQL interface of sorts I could easily say things like `select pictures containing fish where date > 2 years ago'
I'd like to just say "Siri, show me all pictures of me on a boat from 2 years ago", but I can't do that. "Siri, show me all my pictures of food when I was in Seattle" - why can't I have that?
I should be able to verbally tag all the faces it recognizes. "Find me that picture of Jeff and Dave from Christmas"
When is all this image recognition technology going to make it to my phone? I have thousands of pictures in my phone, and scrolling back to find a memory takes me forever and half the time I can't find it. If I had a SQL interface of sorts I could easily say things like `select pictures containing fish where date > 2 years ago' I'd like to just say "Siri, show me all pictures of me on a boat from 2 years ago", but I…