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It is NOT "false promise." (Or at least you don't yet KNOW if it will eventually be "false.") It may not be working well NOW, which is unfortunate. Let's not
by VikingCoder 10y ago
It is NOT "false promise." (Or at least you don't yet KNOW if it will eventually be "false.") It may not be working well NOW, which is unfortunate.
Let's not forget how much people (like Marvin Minsky) crapped all over neural networks. And now they're beating professional Go players and doing Natural Language Parsing better than anyone else.
- mindcrime 10y agoLet's not forget how much people (like Marvin Minsky) crapped all over neural networks AIUI, Minsky and Papert "crapped all over" perceptrons specifically and not neural networks in general. It's often been said that the idea that "Minsky said NN's don't work" was an erroneous interpretation by others in the field.
- hulahoof 10y agoNot to mention many algorithms were waiting for Moore's Law to catch up
- VikingCoder 10y agoHe actively fought to keep funding from going to NNs. Actively. For years.
- new299 10y agoThat and it should really be the false promise of DNA fingerprinting. There are other approaches that would work far better.