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This article is nonsense. Grammerly or Amazon Echo are examples of how AI can do _new_ things in a frictionless way. Reducing friction is a huge use case for
by nicodjimenez 9y ago
This article is nonsense. Grammerly or Amazon Echo are examples of how AI can do _new_ things in a frictionless way. Reducing friction is a huge use case for machine learning. Lowering costs in this splintered economy of haves and have nots is certainly valuable but hardly the most interesting or valuable opportunity for ML.
- NicoJuicy 9y agoAmazon echo isn't really AI. They use something similar to intents https://dialogflow.com/docs/intents https://dialogflow.com/docs/intents for chat bots, if I'm not mistaken
- Eridrus 9y agoI think people, including the author, vastly underestimate what will happen when things get cheaper. I think smart speakers are still a case of transcription/understanding being cheap enough that we can do it for trivial things like turning on the lights. But I think ML is even more powerful, in situations where we learn from real world data rather than some human/programmatic data labeling, we can exceed the abilities of people. Google's recent ML for health stuff comes to mind where it's much better at humans at certain tasks.