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It's not a one trick pony. It's the distinction between AI research and applied AI. There's more applied AI than there's research.
by partycoder 9y ago
It's not a one trick pony. It's the distinction between AI research and applied AI.
There's more applied AI than there's research.
- thephyber 9y agoFrom TFA: > Just about every AI advance you've heard of depends on a breakthrough that's three decades old. Keeping up the pace of progress will require confronting AI's serious limitations. The expression "one trick pony" means it does one thing, not that its foundational principles are based on one research paper. If this author's analogy holds, electromagnetism is a "one-trick pony", even though it has millions of applications (which is what common usage of that phrase refers to).
- partycoder 9y agoI find it hard to use this analogy in the context of the whole field of AI. The A in AI stands for artificial, and the AI denomination is so vague that applies to any form of automation however trivial. e.g: fuzzy logic in a washing machine is some sort of AI. Maybe deep learning could be said to be the equivalent to this definition of "one-trick pony".