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'Artificial intelligence' is just a snazzier name for 'applied statistics'. The goal isn't to create thinking robots, the goal is to extend statistical methods
by otabdeveloper1 9y ago
'Artificial intelligence' is just a snazzier name for 'applied statistics'.
The goal isn't to create thinking robots, the goal is to extend statistical methods to the realm of unstructured dumps of big data.
We don't know what "thinking robots" might be and what they're good for, but we've known about the power of statistics for a century now.
Selling statistics + big data to businesses is a no-brainer.
- jahaja 9y agoThis is basically my observation too. That it seems hard to distinguish it from "smart & fancy algoritms". The marketing and hype around it do however imply that it's much more a path to intelligence proper, hence the question above.
- eli_gottlieb 9y agoThe truth is that many ML researchers do care about what "intelligence" (better to say cognition) actually is, but all the funding basically comes from applied statistics problems on business data.