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This made me lol. The comic is seriously a great intro learning resource; it didn't occur to me the subtext might be "don't attempt ML if you're not at Google"

• otabdeveloper2 7y ago
  > The comic is seriously a great intro learning resource No, it isn't. It's horrible. It read like advertising copy to sway dumb investors into pouring their life savings into Google stock.
• khawkins 7y ago
  The message should be, whether intended or not, for Martha to send this comic to her boss and begin scheduling brainstorming meetings. With the vast plethora of introductory resources for ML today, there's no good excuse for both supervisors and engineers to understand what tools it might provide. The phrase "we need to add AI to everything" should be met with as much consternation as "we need to promote synergy". Precision is important. It's the difference between spending 6 months developing an deploying trained neural nets and 60 minutes for linear regression.
  • jacquesm 7y ago
    You'd be surprised how many investment proposals still contain 'AI' just to sex them up. Even if it isn't applicable. Even if the application suggested is way beyond what current AI capabilities are. Case in point: received just such a proposal last week.