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The phrase AI always bothered me. What we have is a generic way to do “curve fitting” on a large amount of data. Nothing more. The one difference is the “curve”
by yalogin 6y ago
The phrase AI always bothered me. What we have is a generic way to do “curve fitting” on a large amount of data. Nothing more. The one difference is the “curve” is a black box but it still strictly adheres to the input used.
- benjaminwootton 6y agoCame here to post the same. I’m no expert, but when I’ve played with AI frameworks it just seems like curve fitting. The few corporate deployments that make it to production barely outperform a simple regression model and are therefore over engineered.
- chillacy 6y agoThe fact that many self contained vision and language tasks can be solved with curve fitting is in itself an interesting finding. Certainly I did not expect this 10 years ago.
- IdiocyInAction 6y agoWhile true, this statement is completely vacuous. The curves being fitted are extremely complicated and if you can easily construct curve fitting problems (meaning: regression) that would be breakthroughs in many scientific fields. This says more about the generality of regression tasks than it says about ML.
- yalogin 6y agoMy comment was focused on the phrase “artificial intelligence “ and not the tech itself. Obviously the techniques are awesome but the naming is unfortunate