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>Machine learning is powerful in many domains, but it's giving engineers license to be lazy. The problem is that if you do machine learning, you just throw dat
by carlmr 4y ago
>Machine learning is powerful in many domains, but it's giving engineers license to be lazy.
The problem is that if you do machine learning, you just throw data at it to correct wrong behaviors. It's difficult to marry this with a logical approach, like dictionary frequency. Which one do you weight how much? 50:50? What if the user dislikes one of the two models more often, do you add another layer of machine learning here?
- bombcar 4y agoremember Watson in jeopardy? Even when it got the question wrong you’d often see the right answer in the list of possibilities it showed. Users need a way to train/override the ML to “fix” mistakes.