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> Now, that's not to say I am against labor saving devices. That's good to know. Because "labor saving devices" is by no means the field of machine learning. A
by funcDropShadow 6y ago
> Now, that's not to say I am against labor saving devices.
That's good to know. Because "labor saving devices" is by no means the field of machine learning. A hammer is a "labor saving device" if all you have are rocks. I've got the impression that a lot of people conflate machine learning and robotics with labor saving in general. Of course compared to the state of art machine learning let's us hope to find magical shortcuts to get our work done. But an IDE, a word processor, or a compiler is also a labor saving devices. As well as a piece of paper, it is way faster to doodle on a piece of paper at your desk than finding the next cave to doodle.
- bendergarcia 6y agoAgreed I find that ml is a meta tool. You gotta Know the tool you need, then use ml to build it. Build the wrong tool and there’s little value. The right tool will make people more productive.
- dumb1224 6y agoI always see that the data used in ML field are not being praised enough. I don't see enough people realising it was the large collection of data / curated information that enabled the advancement (may it be that the ML methods were heavily and manually tweaked to accomplish certain tasks). It simplify wasn't possible before the age of internet.