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Still waiting for ai to predict or at least help with a solution for covid. Jokes aside, ai has done a great job for chatbots, deep fakes, profiling customers

Still waiting for ai to predict or at least help with a solution for covid. Jokes aside, ai has done a great job for chatbots, deep fakes, profiling customers and analysing stats about data. Beyond that its mostly sensationalism.

dynamite-ready 6y ago
Controversial... How about Oncology? It appears to be making a big difference there. Plus there was AlphaGo, which was thought to be impossible, up until the very moment it actually worked, right?
- AstralStorm 6y ago
  Not yet it isn't. Nobody trusts it enough to not require a trained oncologist to look at the samples. Not to mention the machines or software are unavailable for end user doctors. It's in research.
- Barrin92 6y ago
  >How about Oncology? It appears to be making a big difference there It doesn't really. I'm not aware of any oncology work that has yet been replacement by a machine, a few hype articles aside every year or so. >Plus there was AlphaGo, which was thought to be impossible, up until the very moment it actually worked, right? Also no. After the AI winter people were more conservative about when computers would be able to compete in Go, and people generally thought it was five more years away or so. But nobody believed playing go was impossible or even out of reach, why would anyone have thought that
AstralStorm 6y ago
You missed voice recognition, machine translation and copyright violation detection. (Where it creates problems for content creators.) And some automated blood morphology analysis and MRI/CT/scintigraphy/X-ray analysis, but that's in research so far.
visarga 6y ago
There are plenty of indirect applications of AI in COVID but the core problem is not learning, it's searching and testing solutions. So a simulator would serve better. Learning comes after you already have the training data and want a model to solve similar cases.
versteegen 6y ago
Just because there's a huge amount of sensationalism doesn't change the fact that AI is created a huge amount of economic value in a vast number of applications over its ~6 decades.
- futureofaiisnot 6y ago
  That kind of ai is actual ai. No doubt THAT ai has progressed a lot. But the hype ai is just a wet dream for wannabe grahams.
wrinkl3 6y ago
Voice recognition, text translation, OCR, image compression? "Analysing stats about data" alone is something that can be applied to everything from antiviruses to climate models.

dynamite-ready 6y ago

Controversial... How about Oncology? It appears to be making a big difference there. Plus there was AlphaGo, which was thought to be impossible, up until the very moment it actually worked, right?

AstralStorm 6y ago
Not yet it isn't. Nobody trusts it enough to not require a trained oncologist to look at the samples. Not to mention the machines or software are unavailable for end user doctors. It's in research.
Barrin92 6y ago
>How about Oncology? It appears to be making a big difference there It doesn't really. I'm not aware of any oncology work that has yet been replacement by a machine, a few hype articles aside every year or so. >Plus there was AlphaGo, which was thought to be impossible, up until the very moment it actually worked, right? Also no. After the AI winter people were more conservative about when computers would be able to compete in Go, and people generally thought it was five more years away or so. But nobody believed playing go was impossible or even out of reach, why would anyone have thought that

AstralStorm 6y ago

You missed voice recognition, machine translation and copyright violation detection. (Where it creates problems for content creators.) And some automated blood morphology analysis and MRI/CT/scintigraphy/X-ray analysis, but that's in research so far.

visarga 6y ago

There are plenty of indirect applications of AI in COVID but the core problem is not learning, it's searching and testing solutions. So a simulator would serve better. Learning comes after you already have the training data and want a model to solve similar cases.

versteegen 6y ago

Just because there's a huge amount of sensationalism doesn't change the fact that AI is created a huge amount of economic value in a vast number of applications over its ~6 decades.

futureofaiisnot 6y ago
That kind of ai is actual ai. No doubt THAT ai has progressed a lot. But the hype ai is just a wet dream for wannabe grahams.

wrinkl3 6y ago

Voice recognition, text translation, OCR, image compression? "Analysing stats about data" alone is something that can be applied to everything from antiviruses to climate models.