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If by AI you mean machine learning, yes. If you mean "human-like-interactive-thing," yes but not in a way that means we're substantially closer than we were 15
by frisco 18y ago
If by AI you mean machine learning, yes. If you mean "human-like-interactive-thing," yes but not in a way that means we're substantially closer than we were 15 years ago.
AI in the ML sense is quickly becoming critical to business and is opening up lots of possibilities that we could only dream of 5 years ago. At its heart, Google is basically an ML company for one big example. Facebook is moving in that direction as well. There are lots of startups solving old problems with AI, too, such as Knewton (tutoring), and for some self-promotion, my company (Quantios).
- critic 18y agoGoogle: "Did you mean: Quantos"
- frisco 18y agoWe'll overshadow that eventually :) That's an unfortunate side-effect of starting out now; Quantios was in part chosen by virtue of domain-name availability, so "Did you mean..." is a predictable side-effect of that while we get off the ground.
- jacoblyles 18y agoComputer vision seems to be in high demand, too. The army wants its robots to know what they're shooting at.
- tomsaffell 18y agoYes, they do. Reminds me of the AI algorithm designed to tell US tanks from Soviet ones. They accidentally trained it on one type of film for US tanks, and another type for Soviet tanks, each with different color tones, and ended up with a system that could spot different color tones... http://books.google.com/books?id=JNhRSAMFn6YC&pg=PA271&lpg=PA271&dq=computer+vision+tanks+mistake+brightness&source=bl&ots=f8mLCJ1BsT&sig=SV1CSLMXal40j5yr8HDjSSM-M-c&hl=en&ei=lsTGScP7OIaNtgeZ64zJCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result http://books.google.com/books?id=JNhRSAMFn6YC&pg=PA271&#...
- endtime 18y agoThat's one of the problems with neural nets...there's usually no easy way for a human to understand what the actual decision process is (in sharp contrast to, say, decision trees).
- trapper 18y agoYes there is. There are a few methods of converting a trained nn to a decision tree. It's actually a better way of training decision trees for some problems.
- jrnkntl 18y agoCan you tell me what exactly it is that Facebook does with Machine learning?