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Can you name an existing, large business which depends on ML for its existence?
by scottlocklin 8y ago
Can you name an existing, large business which depends on ML for its existence?
- eli_gottlieb 8y agoGoogle.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoAll of Google's market advantage happened before their ML kick, and none of their continued success can be ascribed to it.
- JetSpiegel 8y agoYou can even argue for the opposite, since they went all in into ML, the product quality has at best stagnated.
- scarface74 8y agoTheir product isn’t search, it’s tsrgetted ads. Have the ads gotten worse?
- jdyb 8y agoThey have not become better (in my experience). The ads are still mostly irrelevant for me. (With no anti-tracking attempted by me.)
- twtw 8y agoI don't really want to get into an argument over definitions, but IMO pagerank is pretty obviously machine learning.
- eli_gottlieb 8y agoThat was my intention when writing the reply, yeah.
- p1esk 8y agoIt's like asking "name a large business which depends on the internet for its existence" back in 1995. A better question to ask back then would have been "which large business will depend on the internet in 2015". Note that the internet in 1995 was pretty bad (in terms of applications and from technical point of view), and the hype led to dot com crash 5 years later. Yet it's hard to overestimate the importance of the internet in today's world.
- dnautics 8y agonot for its existence, but the USPS would have a much harder time routing mail without ML based recognition of handwritten addresses.
- currymj 8y agoFair Isaac Corporation
- scottlocklin 8y agoThis is the only acceptable answer here, and of course gradient boosted decision trees don't require special hardware, contra the original article on general purpose computing.
- currymj 8y agoincidentally, AMD actually advertised their latest architecture as using "neural networks" for branch prediction. (Now IIRC it was actually just a linear model, aka a neural net with one layer.) So if that technology were to catch on, a pedant could argue that most computing workloads really are machine learning.