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Modern media use of the word "algorithm" is almost exclusively about AI type of stuff. Recommenders, likelihood detectors, image recognizers etc. That's very mu
by skrebbel 6y ago
Modern media use of the word "algorithm" is almost exclusively about AI type of stuff. Recommenders, likelihood detectors, image recognizers etc. That's very much not a series of steps: it's primarily a function of the data that it had been fed. You can't summarize a training body of 50000 cat pictures as "a series of steps". And the steps are worthless without the training data.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoNo but the algorithms used by AI to do recommendation etc. are generally referred to as algorithms, hence https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-algorithms-every-machine-learning-engineer-should-know/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-algorithms-every-machin...