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Conversation starter: Machine learning in one sentence
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoI'm trying to work out why computers are so stupid, and stop them.
- JacobAldridge 17y agoWith the follow up sentence being "So far, it seems to happen only when they interact with humans, and I'm working to cut down their need for involvement."
- keefe 17y agoI work on detecting and exploiting interesting patterns in data.
- madair 17y agoI think that "I teach computers how to learn" is more indicative of the chicken or the egg nature of the problem.
- lbrandy 17y agoI've worked at a face recognition startup for 5 years now. I've already solved this guy's problem. You have the correct answer. My response is slightly modified in that I open with "I work at a software startup... we do face recognition". And if they ask how it works, I say "We don't teach computers how to recognize faces, we teach computers how to learn how to recognize faces" and most people tend to light up (and/or have their mind blown). If you mention "startup", "face recognition", and "teaching computers how to learn", virtually everyone has something they want to talk about.
- marze 17y agoI'm involved in the creation of our eventual overlords.
- mitko 17y agoMy line is "I do Artificial Intelligence". To most people it sounds like rocket science. It also has some The Matrix/Terminator/I Robot flavor.
- danger 17y agoI've tried that one before and--no joke--the person got very excited, and started going on and on about aliens and life on Mars. I couldn't figure out why until I realized that he had mistaken AI for ET.
- pgbovine 17y agoi would start with the abstract to one of your papers, then keep iterating over it and simplifying it until you think your target audience can comprehend it, then say that sentence to him/her that way, you stand a chance of preserving at least a part of what you're actually doing rather than stating a hand-wavy "I help computers to think"