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It's a sort of unofficial trade association where they coalesce on specific redefinitions of terms to meet their sales and PR efforts. First they came for "int
by stonogo 2y ago
It's a sort of unofficial trade association where they coalesce on specific redefinitions of terms to meet their sales and PR efforts. First they came for "intelligence," then "open source," then "reason," and it will continue. Any word which the PR wants but they can't achieve gets redefined -- "grok" is a perfect example, since in the original sci-fi book it meant "total understanding." The mythological Triton ruled the deeps, so the "deep learning" sales copy immediately co-opted it.
- albert_e 2y agoAlso "accuracy" as a measure of model's performance used to mean something objective in the traditional ML world. Now with LLMs it is what human evaluators feel about the LLM output?
- yorwba 2y agoTraditional ML is no stranger to measuring accuracy in terms of agreement with human evaluators.
- albert_e 2y agoA customer churn model or revenue forecast did have hard objective data (ground truth) to compare against - isn't it?
- ptrrrrrrppr 2y agoyou seem to think all classical ML models were supervised, which isn't true. and we have metrics for unsupervised approaches as well