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I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority, i.e., the long tail, of companies claiming to have some form of "AI" turn out to have nothing that could even gene
by cs702 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority, i.e., the long tail, of companies claiming to have some form of "AI" turn out to have nothing that could even generously be called "AI." Judging from my limited experience, I'd expect this to be especially true in production code.
The not-so-secret dirty secret is that "AI" for many or most companies today is akin to "sex" for high-school students:
Many claim to have it, but few actually do.
- bumby 5y agoWhat’s the chances this platform [1] actually uses AI vs a relatively simple rules based formula? [1] https://www.juggernautai.app/ https://www.juggernautai.app/
- ajcp 5y agoKinda of harkens back to that Mat Velloso quote: "Difference between machine learning and AI: If it is written in Python, it's probably machine learning; if it is written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI."[1] Beyond that I think that branding things as "AI" in the way we do today gets around the John McCarthy truism: "As soon as it works, no one calls it AI any more."[2] 1. https://twitter.com/matvelloso/status/1065778379612282885 https://twitter.com/matvelloso/status/1065778379612282885 2. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/138907-john-mccarthy/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/138907-john-mccarthy/fu...
- Analemma_ 5y agoOr the other quote: “When you’re fundraising, it’s AI; when you’re hiring, it’s ML; when you’re implementing, it’s linear regression.”