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What are the most valuable, unsolved problems in the field?

• dahart 9y ago
  Sentience. ;)
  • giardini 9y ago
    Neither machine learning nor NLP nor Python will give you sentience. However... Machine learning - no one will tell you the answer b/c they're working on it (whatever "it" is) right now. But here's a good tip from Mr. Andrew Ng: "...almost anything a typical human can do with less than one second of mental thought, we can probably [do] now or in the near future automate using AI... Take a security guard looking at a video feed and saying, “Are there people in this? Are they doing something suspicious?” That task is actually a lot of one-second judgment thoughts strung together, so I think a lot of it can be automated." from https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-optimistic-promise-of-artificial-intelligence-1497374822 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-optimistic-promise-of-artif... So that's the level of current ML. NLP - most valuable application is natural language.
• peterburkimsher 9y ago
  I'm working on using Tensorflow to improve Chinese OCR. So far I collected 1500 fonts. Now I'm exporting all the glyphs, and I ran out of disk space yesterday. Then I'll upload the data set of all 75,000 characters here on HN where people can play with it. Before you say that OCR is a solved problem because of Tesseract, please read this: https://ocr.space/blog/2015/03/best-ocr-software-for-chinese.html https://ocr.space/blog/2015/03/best-ocr-software-for-chinese...