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Personally, when a lay person asks what I do, I like telling people I work on "Artificial Intelligence software" because it's the most accurate term that doesn'
by TallGuyShort 7y ago
Personally, when a lay person asks what I do, I like telling people I work on "Artificial Intelligence software" because it's the most accurate term that doesn't (a) get an immediate request to implement their app idea for them and (b) require explaining what machine learning / deep learning is.
But beyond that I hate the term within the industry because I think artificial intelligence gets equated with a Jarvis-like general AI that will talk to you like a superhuman servant. I get the desire to better define the current state of the art. But for most people, I agree it's going to seem like pedantry.
- laichzeit0 7y agoThere’s already a term you can use. “Statistical learning”. There’s even a well known important book with that title: Elements of Statistical Learning.
- TallGuyShort 7y agoThere are books well known in the field with "machine learning" in the title. I don't think that's any clearer to a lay person.
- radarsat1 7y ago> artificial intelligence gets equated with a Jarvis-like general AI that will talk to you like a superhuman servant to be fair, for a lot of researchers, that is the ultimate end goal, even for those who admit we are not even close to it. I for one first got interested in AI from an 80's movie, can't remember which, with a character who talked to his computer, which talked back. Since those early years, I haven't spent even one second working on actual AGI, seeing the plethora of subgoals needed to get there, but.. thinking about it.. plenty. that dream is a driving force behind more ML/AI researchers than maybe you think. Particularly in the RL community I would guess.