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Machine learning has been overhyped and many people have overpromised what it can do. It's useful for recognizing objects on images, it improves automatic tran
by kubb 5y ago
Machine learning has been overhyped and many people have overpromised what it can do.
It's useful for recognizing objects on images, it improves automatic translation, it can rate chess positions, in general it's doing well in certain types of problems.
The thing is, people were expecting it to revolutionize every discipline and it turns out it's incredibly hard to build something useful with it in a domain badly suited to it.
- saeranv 5y agoIf you know what you're doing, having access to a universal approximator is lethal. But if you don't, it's true, you can only replicate previous successes in the domain, and that will be the limiting factor.