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Are connectionist / neural network models commercially more successful than symbolist approaches have ever been? Or is the current AI decade comparable to the 8
by DanielleMolloy 7y ago
Are connectionist / neural network models commercially more successful than symbolist approaches have ever been? Or is the current AI decade comparable to the 80s culminating in expert systems?
- dgacmu 7y agoMuch more successful. (and still perhaps just as over-hyped. :-). Most Google searches you do were influenced by a neural network prediction. The ads you see from Google and Bing were predicted by statistical machine learning models. When you talk to your phone or Google home or Alexa or Siri, the speech to text is performed by a deep neural network. When you (don't get as much) spam in your inbox? DNN. When you search your iPhoto album for cats? DNN. List goes on and on. DNNs are one of the best tools we have for bringing uncertain, hugely complex real world audio, text, and visual data into a form where we can manipulate it symbolically or mathematically with traditional programming. In other words, they bring more domains into the scope of automation. (Observe that none of what I just said sounded like "AI" as popularly imagined).