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Honest question: is just collecting and analyzing data not considered a use case for AI? I mean sure some businesses can be essentially run by a recommender sys
by Jeriko 6y ago
Honest question: is just collecting and analyzing data not considered a use case for AI? I mean sure some businesses can be essentially run by a recommender system or something. But it also seems valuable if you can do something like use NLP to get better quantification of customer feedback, which is really just collecting and analyzing data for a human to use later.
- joshribakoff 6y agoIf it’s humans making observations in the data, changing (non AI parts) of their software stack, and reanalyzing the data it sounds like there’s no supervised or unsupervised machine learning going on, it could be, but the article is too hand wavy for me to be sure. That’s why I think a more accurate title is “companies realize most of the work in AI comes down to feature engineering and data prep, not algorithm design”
- optimuspaul 6y agoAbsolutely. The current state of AI/ML practically requires a human to interpret the results. Even a recommender system is just collecting and analyzing data for humans to consume in some way. And that system needs to be maintained and retrained regularly to produce meaningful results.
- joshribakoff 6y agoThis is only true of supervised offline learning
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- optimuspaul 6y agowrong. I have trained plenty of unsupervised models where the inferred results are purely for human consumption. In fact I believe unsupervised models more often require a human to analyze the results.
- joshribakoff 6y agoWhether an algorithm is supervised or not certainly does affect whether you need to retrain it periodically. Also it does not at all affect whether the output is fed to end users or to other algorithms
- optimuspaul 6y agoI feel like maybe we are saying the same thing but using different words.