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by romaniv 11y ago
I thinks that's a very good question. I can name countless cases of "semi-trivial" AI being used to improve people's lives. Tree/graph searches, linear regression and clustering algorithms are used all over the plac
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>Before deep learning people would manually design all these extra features sin(x_1), x_1^2, etc. It's probably worth pointing out that this is true for ANNs, but there were (and are) other "shallow" classifiers that can
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> They're only 7k images. I feel like all those deep learning papers distorted people's perception of scale. If you need to take those 7k images by hand because your application domain is obscure and they aren't availabl
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The consequence of a nuclear accident is much greater than the consequence of a wind power accident Accidents are not the only things that cause damage, though. Pollution kills people too. Stuff like that should be factored in when consid
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I was told that driverless cars and household androids would be commonplace by the year 2000. Different people predicted different things depending on the decade you're looking at.
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>That being said, I think we are finally at the dawn of "useful AI" Were AI systems that outperformed humans in solving complex differential and integral equations useless? Were systems that diagnosed diseases better than doc
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I'm reading Delip's followup post[1] and it reminds me how much of ANN stuff is till pretty much alchemy. [1] http://deliprao.com/archives/137
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In my opinion, anyone who works on music generation should take a look at Karma ( http://karma-lab.com/ ) for a baseline of what can be achieved by simple math and plain old programming. Probably not particularly interesting
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I have a bittersweet feeling about all these APIs. On the positive side, this is something we can take and use, possibly saving ourselves tons of time on some routine tasks. On the negative side, this particular flavor of AI-as-a-service fr
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Maybe we should just transpile Flash into ASM.js and be done with it. And yes, I am being sarcastic here. I understand the motivation underpinning such projects, but the approach of introducing yet another complicated API with dubious cross
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>It's not Microsoft's fault that the public thinks of Terminator robots when hearing "AI" Large corporation definitely could do better when it comes to explaining the limits of their AI/ML technologies and putt
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It is remarkable that most organization try to "fix" this by teaching everyone to present (i.e. sell ideas) better, rather than teaching people how to better listen and evaluate new ideas.
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Are you speaking about just the code samples or commenting on the general approaches used in the book?
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There is more to AI than complicated neural networks. There are simple well-studied algorithms that deliver predictable results and work very well if you apply them to the right problem. Look into K-means clustering, linear regression and d
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It's all fine and well, as long as all "non-routine" jobs don't require a Master's degree and 10 years of hands-on experience.
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> web/enterprise bubble That's 99% of all programming.
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While we're here, does anyone know a good Go app for Android? A lot of them look like spyware, judging by permissions.
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>For instance the computer may ignore a capture to play elsewhere and it can be hard to work out why. I think the biggest insight I had about Go when I was learning to play it is that the game commences on the entire board at once. At
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> ut, really, it doesn't matter. Google has the airwaves (so to speak). No matter what happens anywhere else, in academia or business, their stuff is going to be publicised the most and that's what we all have to deal with. O
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Are you implying that AI research in the past decades didn't have any "real" results? This is a popular meta-narrative these days, but it's mostly a product of marketing that tries to magnify the significance of current
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by romaniv 11y ago
This. I miss ICQ. Well, I still use it occasionally, since it's part of my MirandaIM setup. But I miss it whenever I use Skype for IMs. For starters, I can aggregate ICQ, Jabber and a bunch of other services inside one lightweight open
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A newcomer can index, store, search and display data differently, but first they still have to get that data. Which means dealing with JavaScript, paywalls and other fun stuff like that. Besides, regardless of what you do, you would need
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Can't wait till Google starts data-mining background noises to "improve" your experience. Yes, they can do it with other of their services, but this one is the most likely to provide the most personal information. Also, it wi
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Alas, it’s 2016 and there’s still no serious competitor to Google. And there will not be any time soon. Writing an efficient crawler for what we call the "modern" web is not something a small or even median-size company can pu
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Most developers don't control their tool-chains. Plus, some tools act like black holes for software. They bend all the infrastructure around themselves and there is no coming back once you cross the adoption event horizon.
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I keep reading about these algorithms that are "better than humans". Perfect image recognition, perfect speech recognition, parsing plain text-queries and answering questions, etc, etc. So where are the practical implementations?
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I would be happy to pay something to Soundcloud as long as it's not per-song. It's a good service. Really easy to use as a musician and great for finding new music as a consumer. Hm, maybe they should be selling some "audioph
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Not sure it's a bad thing. Yahoo worked when the internet was smaller. For fields with reasonable amount of information the model is better than just searching for stuff.
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Why 'seemingly'? Why is that not 'actual' groundbreaking progress? Because mapping problems to pre-existing algorithms is bread and butter of computer science and software engineering. To be groundbreaking a work needs
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Framing questions about AI in terms of "mastering" some field is somewhat disingenuous in the first place.

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