AI winter is well on its way
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AI winter is well on its way
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#2Truly, I agree.
I've long been interested in learning about AI and deep learning, but to this day haven't done much that truly excites me within the field. It feels more or less impossible to make anything significant without Google-scale databases and Google-scale computers. AI really does make it easier for the few to jump far ahead, leaving everyone behind.
I also agree that a lot the news around AI is just hype.
Honestly, I'm yet to see anything practical come out of AI.
But hey, if something eventually does, I'm all for it.
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#3Judea Pearl sees a way out of the winter.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/machi...
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#4Truly, I agree. I've long been interested in learning about AI and deep learning, but to this day haven't done much that truly excites me within the field. It feels more or less impossible to make anything significant without Google-scale databases and Google-scale computers. AI really does make it easier for the few to jump far ahead, leaving everyone behind. I also agree that a lot the news around AI is just hype.…
Speaking of Google-scale databases, I've always felt the unhyped hero of deep learning was the data sets themselves. I'd be happy to see one less book about deep learning, and one more book on how you can gather and build a quality dataset yourself. Granted, I think gathering and preparing the data is a broader and most difficult task in many ways.
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#5While I basically agree, really it ought to be called "AI autumn is well on its way", since I'm not sure we're into actual winter (i.e. dramatic reduction in $$ available for research) quite yet. But, probably soon.
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#6Truly, I agree. I've long been interested in learning about AI and deep learning, but to this day haven't done much that truly excites me within the field. It feels more or less impossible to make anything significant without Google-scale databases and Google-scale computers. AI really does make it easier for the few to jump far ahead, leaving everyone behind. I also agree that a lot the news around AI is just hype.…
Speaking of Google-scale databases, I've always felt the unhyped hero of deep learning was the data sets themselves. I'd be happy to see one less book about deep learning, and one more book on how you can gather and build a quality dataset yourself. Granted, I think gathering and preparing the data is a broader and most difficult task in many ways.
> be Google
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#7While I basically agree, really it ought to be called "AI autumn is well on its way", since I'm not sure we're into actual winter (i.e. dramatic reduction in $$ available for research) quite yet. But, probably soon.
Author here, yeah, it is the autumn. But I guess not many people would recognize the meaning, winter on the other hand is not ambiguous...
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#8It's the same story again like exaggerating the influence of IoT 5 years ago. The whole thing is exaggerated to raise money from investors and attract customers instead of actually buidling superior product
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#9Well, now that the cat's out of the bag in regards to AI/ML, we can all get in on the ground floor of the next hype wave - quantum computing!
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#10Well, now that the cat's out of the bag in regards to AI/ML, we can all get in on the ground floor of the next hype wave - quantum computing!
IMHO Quantum computing is as well hyped as Cold Fusion and shares some of its properties. Until "quantum supremacy" occurs or something that will show a real speedup we won't hear that much from it.