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Are there any cases of machine learning solidly outperforming other options in real-world applications? Is there anything it does better than a person? You can
by Causality1 8y ago
Are there any cases of machine learning solidly outperforming other options in real-world applications? Is there anything it does better than a person? You can point at something like evolutionary algorithms and say "this antenna is better for this use than anything designed by hand" but can you do that with machine learning?
- soraki_soladead 8y agoEvolutionary algorithms are a type of machine learning, so yes. Machine learned vision, speech, NLP, etc. outperform heuristic methods and those are just the recent advances. A random forest can easily outperform a hand-made decision tree—and this is the important part—if it is set up correctly and you use a sufficient quantity of high quality data. Linear models have also been used for decades because they work.
- 0xcde4c3db 8y agoI've heard that computer vision has huge advantages over humans in grading agricultural products, but from the brief discussions I've had I'm not sure how much of that is actually based on machine learning as opposed to other techniques (heuristics, ad-hoc algorithms, old-school statistical methods, etc.).