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Let's look at a few of the most impressive applications of machine learning: - Classification in computer vision - Protein folding (AlphaFold) - Image genera

by axg11 4y ago

Let's look at a few of the most impressive applications of machine learning: - Classification in computer vision - Protein folding (AlphaFold) - Image generation (Dall-E 2) - Answering general language queries (GPT-3) It's unclear how any of these applications could have been tackled _without_ machine learning. We had no solid grasp on these problems before ML, with the exception of protein folding. I think you are being cynical. Of course not every ML project will result in a home run success. Should that make us sceptical of the entire field?

Jensson 4y ago
But most people using neural nets in the industry aren't working on those things. They just slap it on any data inference task, even though in most cases traditional statistical/data science models works much better.
- r-zip 4y ago
  In my experience, people use appropriate tools for the job. Most data scientists won't reach for a neural network if the problem can be solved by other, simpler means.
  - Jensson 4y ago
    Which is why I said "using neural nets" instead of "data scientist".