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Haha, I never realised it was that immature. As an aside: Being a tech I have been asked numerous times by non-techs "What actually is AI?" I usually answer "
by _Understated_ 7y ago
Haha, I never realised it was that immature.
As an aside: Being a tech I have been asked numerous times by non-techs "What actually is AI?"
I usually answer "a lot of if-statements" :)
- google2342 7y agoThat's not a fair characterization. These contractors are mostly used for quality assurance. Once you've trained your model (which is not just if statements), you might you send a few thousand examples to raters to judge the true quality of your model.
- xthestreams 7y agoAI researcher here. While industry doesn't usually find the need for huge complex models, I don't think your statement is fair, nor accurate. Can you provide some examples of AI tech that in your opinion is "a lot of if statements"?
- google2342 7y agoHow do you expect someone to justify a statement that's not true? I suppose you could say that it's a fair characterization of a basic decision tree but that doesn't describe modern ML methods.
- _Understated_ 7y agoIf you're meaning me, I probably should've ended my comment with /s I was making a joke :)
- logn 7y agoThe commenter is just referring to the nature of neural networks, a pile of weights and thresholds that you could conceivably write out as a maniacal mess of deeply nested if-statements.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoIt is probably something akin to "a lot of if-statements generated by an automated system that we neither understand nor can explain, which seems to more or less output results we wanted".