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Any machine learning mastermen out there??

Here's where I'm confused Machine learning models are ver...
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in general, you can't
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Well then how are all these AI software companies doing it?
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Gleaned from industry data sets, I presume?
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These AI software companies must be providing very customize...
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What about meta learning? From what I understand that automa...
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So all these AI startups are either relying on public datase...
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So if you're looking to make bank in AI, it almost seems lik...
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Your consulting firm will struggle to find large corporate c...
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What do you mean thrash me around? Like you're saying they c...
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Something along those lines. Essentially, it's a matter of n...
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what domains are you talking about, specifically? most of...
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There's a few in fintech that look interesting Also some ...
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a lot of the ideas seem silly and/or will be done much bette...
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Yep. They're calling them "acquihires"
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that's the same as being bought out, even if the motive is d...
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Dealing with disparate data sets has always been a central i...
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Are you kidding me?! Then how come every article I read says...
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What you're reading is a mix of marketing material and/or cl...
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Where do you think the future opportunities in AI are?
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If you're aiming high, future opportunities would be largely...
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You really think this is all hype? Don't understand Deep...
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It's not all hype; there are several practical applications ...
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As in AGI will never be achieved or just not in the next 20-...
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As in it's more of a philosophical question that has no real...
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interesting theory
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Interesting I was trying to think of some applications th...
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You probably don't need or want machine learning for things ...
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So what's the solution for dealing with disparate datasets? ...
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This is kind of an academic question, and I'm not sure if th...
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So just to sum up: AI software is fundamentally different fr...
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You appear to be using "AI" and "machine lear...
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Both are poorly defined, but AI is worse. This brings us bac...
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Look to industries where processes and products are regulate...
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Build an AI and then ask it how to scale machine learning an...
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You guys might be right about AI hype https://mobile.nyti...
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Date: May 13th, 2018 5:31 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

Here's where I'm confused

Machine learning models are very domain specific - one company's data can be used to train a model, but that model won't generalize to other companies' data, etc

How does one scale software using AI then?

How could you create a software which takes a company's data, learns from it to make predictions, and then sell a software package to another company which does the same thing, just for that company's data?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042817)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 5:39 PM
Author: Gold spectacular state headpube

in general, you can't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042863)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 5:53 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

Well then how are all these AI software companies doing it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042898)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:03 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042933)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:04 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

Gleaned from industry data sets, I presume?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042940)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:13 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042967)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:39 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

These AI software companies must be providing very customized solutions to each of their clients though I would think, in terms of what kind of data is going to be used, what the client is looking for, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043067)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:00 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

What about meta learning? From what I understand that automates the design of Ml models. Couldn't this possibly be used to create something like I described?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042924)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 5:53 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042899)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:04 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

So all these AI startups are either relying on public datasets or large industry wide data sets that they will then use to help customers?

Here's where I'm getting at: it seems like all the value extraction will go to large corporates who are sitting on large private datasets. How is an AI startup going to get a large piece of that pie?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042937)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:10 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:17 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

So if you're looking to make bank in AI, it almost seems like starting up a consulting firm to help large corporates navigate this whole process would be the best route.

I've been thinking about this for a while - I just don't see how you create an AI software firm that scales like the one I was talking about in OP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042979)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:31 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

Your consulting firm will struggle to find large corporate clients unless your executives and sales team have the right connections. And even if do land one big deal as a consulting shop, the company will likely be able to thrash you around if you don't have the right backing. TSINAH is mostly right here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043036)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:40 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

What do you mean thrash me around? Like you're saying they could demand a whole bunch of shit and then try to dick me on the bill?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043072)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:47 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

Something along those lines. Essentially, it's a matter of not being as experienced in the power games played in the corporate world (and not having the resources to do so).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043093)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 7:06 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043181)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:12 PM
Author: lemon talented space goal in life

what domains are you talking about, specifically?

most of the AI startups i have seen seem doomed to failure or being bought out by a large competitor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042961)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:15 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

There's a few in fintech that look interesting

Also some in the sales and marketing space that look very interesting. That's the area I'm interested in

Why do you think most will go down in flames?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042972)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:24 PM
Author: lemon talented space goal in life

a lot of the ideas seem silly and/or will be done much better by large tech companies with more resources. things like this:

https://www.offworld.ai/

even if data wasn't an issue, computational resources are and companies like Google will have a major advantage. AlphaZero was an obvious idea and could have been invented by many people if they had access to a few thousand TPUs like Google. the same goes for other research in this field.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043012)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:16 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042976)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:19 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

Yep. They're calling them "acquihires"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042986)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:25 PM
Author: lemon talented space goal in life

that's the same as being bought out, even if the motive is different than with a standard acquisition.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043015)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 5:39 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

Dealing with disparate data sets has always been a central issue in large-scale data processing. The tools around today aren't much more sophisticated than they were 20-30 years ago, but costs are lower and things are faster. Machine learning and AI are largely meaningless buzzwords.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042864)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 5:54 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

Are you kidding me?! Then how come every article I read says that AI is the holy grail

What's your background for saying this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042906)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:18 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

What you're reading is a mix of marketing material and/or cluelessness.

Background: I used to work as an engineer for a big-name machine learning company.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042982)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:22 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

Where do you think the future opportunities in AI are?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042998)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:41 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

If you're aiming high, future opportunities would be largely built around your ability to succeed as a startup founder and ride the wave of AI hype, which is a mix of being able to raise lots of money, tons of marketing, fraud and other unethical behavior, etc.

A more realistic approach would be to solve some narrow subset of AI/ML problems that a bigger company can't figure out due to corporate bureaucracy, dysfunctional management, good engineers jumping ship, etc., and then having that company acquire your company.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043075)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 7:26 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

You really think this is all hype? Don't understand

Deep learning is doing some interesting stuff. Transfer learning could be the ticket to AGI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043318)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 9:31 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

It's not all hype; there are several practical applications of machine learning like in TSINAH's post office example. The complexity and range of data that can be processed today is much larger than in the past. In the 90s, "data mining" meant processing clicks from website users and sales of items, while today you can work with data from mobile devices, "IoT" devices, etc., and the insights you get out of it are more complex. Nonetheless, there are tons of startups out there that are built almost entirely on the hype (being in the industry, I've seen tons of this).

AGI is pure science fiction and fantasy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043924)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 10:26 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36044336)



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Date: May 15th, 2018 11:03 AM
Author: impressive weed whacker jew

As in AGI will never be achieved or just not in the next 20-30 years?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36054474)



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Date: May 15th, 2018 1:56 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

As in it's more of a philosophical question that has no real answer and will likely never have one. "AI" research today is mostly built around creating better statistical models and algorithms or simply being able to run them faster. A complicated algorithmic system may be able to provide accurate predictions and behavior in a very narrow and usually contrived set of scenarios, but it does not even begin to resemble anything like the full capacity of human intelligence, which itself we'll probably never understand or be able to adequately define due to natural limits to what we can even understand and conceive of.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36055720)



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Date: May 29th, 2018 5:33 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

interesting theory

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36146927)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:43 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:53 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

Interesting

I was trying to think of some applications this technology might have in accounting (my field) but all I came to was forecasting revenue, which didn't strike me as very robust

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043123)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 7:03 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043161)



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Date: May 15th, 2018 2:34 PM
Author: lemon talented space goal in life

You probably don't need or want machine learning for things like revenue forecasting. Simple linear regression works better for most applications.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36055954)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:56 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

Luminance and casetext are two legal startups in that space right now actually. Both look pretty cool

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043137)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 6:02 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36042929)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 8:43 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

So what's the solution for dealing with disparate datasets? Isn't someone trying to work on this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043686)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 9:39 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

This is kind of an academic question, and I'm not sure if there's a general solution here. The closest we have to "solving" this problem is open source projects like Hadoop, Spark, etc., but these will probably be superseded by other tools eventually as costs continue to drop, technical limitations expand, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043967)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 10:38 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



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Date: May 13th, 2018 7:58 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren



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Date: May 13th, 2018 8:36 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

So just to sum up: AI software is fundamentally different from other types of software. I can create an accounting software and sell it to millions of users. I can scale that business.

I can't do the same thing for AI software, because machine learning is not explicitly programmed. Rather, it learns from data, which is necessarily going to vary between industries and companies. There is no one size fits all solution for it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36043645)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 9:47 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

You appear to be using "AI" and "machine learning" interchangeably, but they're different things.

You can build "machine learning" software that learns from data using only a spreadsheet and standard spreadsheet functions (no VBA needed).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36044037)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 10:42 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



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Date: May 13th, 2018 10:45 PM
Author: Diverse genital piercing

Both are poorly defined, but AI is worse. This brings us back to my original point: they're largely meaningless buzzwords.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36044460)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 10:21 PM
Author: bearded locus nowag

Look to industries where processes and products are regulated to be similar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36044305)



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Date: May 13th, 2018 10:32 PM
Author: Swashbuckling pozpig church building

Build an AI and then ask it how to scale machine learning and let us know what it says

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36044370)



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Date: May 14th, 2018 4:19 PM
Author: blathering well-lubricated stage personal credit line



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Date: May 15th, 2018 10:40 AM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

funny, bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36054315)



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Date: May 15th, 2018 2:30 PM
Author: mind-boggling lodge filthpig

Actual person with ML experience here.

ML is the process of "training" a model using an algorithm/framework and data. This results in a model that can help you make inferences or decisions given a question (should we give this person a loan? Is this an example of fraud?).

Applying the model to solve real world problems is what gives you AI. You can build software with a model that makes decisions or provides insight given data in a standardized format. For example, take a look at the Rekognition API from Amazon for image recognition.

SO I think you're making an error in assuming that all machine learning models are highly specific to a certain problem or organization. Algorithms are very specific to training certain types of models, is probably what you're thinking of.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36055928)



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Date: May 15th, 2018 5:57 PM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36057329)



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Date: May 19th, 2018 6:57 PM
Author: mind-boggling lodge filthpig



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Date: May 21st, 2018 12:03 AM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren



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Date: June 8th, 2018 1:29 AM
Author: 180 carmine theater stage brethren

You guys might be right about AI hype

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/opinion/artificial-intelligence-challenges.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36205376)



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Date: June 8th, 2018 8:02 AM
Author: lemon talented space goal in life

Gary Marcus has been pushing this for a while now. He thinks the current path in machine learning is fundamentally flawed, as it focuses strictly on learning and places little to no value on innate knowledge humans use to guide decision making.

I think he is wrong for several reasons. There are pretty strict limits on the amount of data encoded in the human genome. From that base number, you have to remove everything that codes for basic cellular functions, body architecture, etc. Even genes that are strictly active in the brain will often code for things that we don't care about when engineering intelligence, such as what we find rewarding.

Even assuming what is left over is a few megabytes of data that provides priors to bias human learning, this doesn't mean we need that knowledge to replicate the functionality of our brains. It could simply be a shortcut to speed human development. The reality is that we are able to push far more data through ML systems than any human will ever be exposed to in a normal lifetime. You can have very weak priors in that situation, which is why DL systems work even though they don't resemble the brain in any substantive way.

The limitations of Google Duplex and other chatbots are not due to some inherent weakness in the learning based approach. These systems need richly detailed world models from unsupervised learning. They don't actually understand the world yet, which is why they are inflexible and require large specialized data sets to work in limited domains. I really doubt this will be a problem in a few more years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3975999&forum_id=2#36206001)