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A company with top of the line machine learning systems designed to improve advertising results is not better positioned to build an autonomous vehicle than a c
by vonmoltke 10y ago
A company with top of the line machine learning systems designed to improve advertising results is not better positioned to build an autonomous vehicle than a company with top of the line non-autonomous vehicles.
- amelius 10y agoIndeed. It has been said many times before: machine learning is all about the data, not about the algorithms.
- wrsh07 10y agoThe argument here is essentially this: Microsoft started to lose when they (a company building computers, operating systems, and essential productivity software) were not best positioned to create mobile phones, despite being the biggest player in the computer market. Being a bigger player doesn't mean you're better suited to solve a problem.