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The comparisons are nothing short of insane. The best models and datasets come well short of justifying even an infinitesimal representation of intelligence.
by mirntyfirty 4y ago
The comparisons are nothing short of insane. The best models and datasets come well short of justifying even an infinitesimal representation of intelligence.
It’s quite concerning too that there seems to be this belief that one can be effective in this field with a weak math background. I recall a meeting with a consultant claiming that they could improve order flow by using ML with a data set that was small
and inaccurate. Their background was an mba and a few years of working on mergers and acquisitions.
- slimsag 4y agoAs humans we are adverse to complexity and naturally lazy, our goal is always to find easier ways to do things that benefit us more. It's why languages like Python have taken off. A large portion of the population is being told that programming is where you go to make a ton of money, and then subsequently hear that machine learning is the future of programming where you don't need to understand your data, you don't need to understand anything. You just plug in some magic codes and get out great results because the computer learns what you want! Of course, it's not like that. But we're going to see a lot more of this attitude, because Machine Learning is not pitched as "high level statistics" but rather "magic that does what you want!"