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Machine learning libraries have been around for a long time also. I remember seeing them around and playing with them in the late 90s, without really knowing wh
by ThJ 7y ago
Machine learning libraries have been around for a long time also. I remember seeing them around and playing with them in the late 90s, without really knowing what to do with them. For some reason, few people cared about them then, much like few people took virtual reality very seriously at the time. Interest in these things swings back and forth like a pendulum. It seems that you can pick almost any uninteresting thing that no one cares about anymore and work on it, and soon enough, it will be back in the spotlight again.
- ThJ 7y agoAt one point, naive Bayesian classifiers were considered machine learning. Now we use them for spam filters. Chess playing algorithms were also considered machine learning at one point. We keep moving the goalposts. We won't ever reach a specific point of concluding that we have intelligent machines. There won't be a breakthrough, much like living organisms never had an intelligence breakthrough; they just gradually became more and more intelligent through incremental development.