Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
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Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
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#2Marketing team says "no".
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#3This so much.
To say nothing of the fact there is a risk of another AI winter when NN/ML continues to not produce (the promised) results.
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#4Yes please! It's disheartening to engage in discussions where Airbus' autopilot is used as an example of advanced AI.
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#5I appreciate this notion. It seems as though AI has become a fancy marketing term for stats. I also think there are times when knowing which types of models are used would be really helpful. Having built models with neural nets and glms on the same data sets, there are pros and cons to a variety of approaches and oftentimes the simple ones win, even after a 6 month detailed analysis of all the predictors.
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#6> “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends—that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that is responsible for the progress and which is competing with humans,” he says. “We don’t have that, but people are talking as if we do.”
How much more am I as a human really than the machine learning algorithms are?
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#7I admire the reach of "Two Minute Papers", but that guy has got to stop calling everything an AI for the sake of YouTube views.
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#8I really liked the definition of AI (back in 2015) by Seth Godin - a marketer!
>One common insightful definition of AI: Artificial Intelligence is everything a computer can't do yet. As soon as it can, we call it obvious.
If the term is used like that it does make sense to me.
https://seths.blog/2015/04/the-noise-in-our-head-and-artific...
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#9> “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends—that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that is responsible for the progress and which is competing with humans,” he says. “We don’t have that, but people are talking as if we do.” How much more am I as a human really than the machine learning algorithms are?
I guess when we understand how the brain works, we'll be able to answer this.
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#10When I listen to marketers and journalists I always assume AI means "Algorithm" and Blockchain means "Decentralised"