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I wasn't around back then, I'm curious what were the business use-cases of AI/ML back then?

• ForHackernews 5y ago
  Spam filtering and route-planning are big successes from previous generations of techniques labelled as "AI".
• Retric 5y ago
  Optical sorting of fruit and various other things is a great example where early AI techniques made significant real world progress. It’s not sexy by today’s standards, but is it’s based on a lot of early image classification work.
  • truth_ 5y ago
    We are talking about money-making applications here. Not progress.
    • Retric 5y ago
      By progress I mean actual money making products. If your widget is doing shape recognition based on training sets and your competitors are hard coding color recognition then you end up making more money.