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Truly, I agree. I've long been interested in learning about AI and deep learning, but to this day haven't done much that truly excites me within the field. It
by thosakwe 8y ago
Truly, I agree.
I've long been interested in learning about AI and deep learning, but to this day haven't done much that truly excites me within the field. It feels more or less impossible to make anything significant without Google-scale databases and Google-scale computers. AI really does make it easier for the few to jump far ahead, leaving everyone behind.
I also agree that a lot the news around AI is just hype.
Honestly, I'm yet to see anything practical come out of AI.
But hey, if something eventually does, I'm all for it.
- tomatotomato37 8y agoI'm kinda curious now where those giant datasets will come from now that there's a big push for privacy with things like GDPR preventing some random researcher from just buying data off whatever data mining corp is most relevant to their AI's purpose
- confounded 8y agoI’m kinda curious now which researchers have been buying PII from data mining corps.
- nopriorarrests 8y agoCambridge analytica comes to mind
- mr_toad 8y agoMany traditional businesses (e.g. banks, insurance) collect customer data internally, and don’t share it with anyone. That’s not likely to change much. For many of these businesses, the customer is other businesses, and privacy rules aren’t even applicable. You won’t hear about these projects outside industry specific publications, if at all.
- Buttons840 8y agoSpeaking of Google-scale databases, I've always felt the unhyped hero of deep learning was the data sets themselves. I'd be happy to see one less book about deep learning, and one more book on how you can gather and build a quality dataset yourself. Granted, I think gathering and preparing the data is a broader and most difficult task in many ways.
- danharaj 8y ago> be Google