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This article in Nature, which the Popular Mechanics article appears to be based on, is much more informative: http://www.nature.com/news/germany-enlists-machine
by shoyer 10y ago
This article in Nature, which the Popular Mechanics article appears to be based on, is much more informative: http://www.nature.com/news/germany-enlists-machine-learning-to-boost-renewables-revolution-1.20251 http://www.nature.com/news/germany-enlists-machine-learning-...
It's a little misleading to say they're using AI. Most of this work (and all the specific examples listed on the project webpage) is more appropriately called statistics.
- sctb 10y agoThanks, we updated the link from http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a21826/germany-machine-learning-power-grid http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a2..., which does point to this.
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- amit_m 10y agoNowadays there's no clear difference between statistics and machine learning. But the latter gets you more grant money. :-/
- artifaxx 10y agoMachine learning is setting it up to find the correlations for you these days :p It is annoying when people choose things due to a more exciting name/buzzword rather than actual merit...
- visarga 10y ago> no clear difference between statistics and machine learning Yes, there is. When your model has thousands/millions of parameters, or when your model has many more parameters than the number of examples in your training set, it's called Machine Learning.
- NumberCruncher 10y agoTechnically you call overfitting AI...
- Houshalter 10y agoThat's not true. Linear and logistic regression are like the first things you learn in a machine learning class. Many popular ML models do not have millions of parameters, including decision trees and shallow neural networks.
- aphextron 10y agoPopular Mechanics has become nothing but vapid clickbait nonsense these days. Thanks for the source.