Re:What is the difference between deep learning and usual ma...
by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday June 05, 2016 @12:26PM
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>> more traditional AI techniques such as expert systems
I believe you'll be hard pressed to find anyone that describes expert systems as "learning" in any way. They're typically considered as the antithesis of machine learning: they're knowledge-driven but you have to enter all the knowledge "by hand". Indeed some machine learning algorithms were proposed as ways to automate the creation of the large rule-bases typical of expert systems (the most prominent such algorithm being Decision Trees).
>> It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of a non-NN AI researcher regarding this.
Researchers are rarely as proscriptive as that. You may find folks who specialise in ANNs to the exclusion of other techniques (but it's true it's a vast field) but you'll probably not find anyone who wouldn't try ANNs a couple of times, and maybe publish a paper or two on them. Same goes for other trendy algorithms also.
I believe you'll be hard pressed to find anyone that describes expert systems as "learning" in any way. They're typically considered as the antithesis of machine learning: they're knowledge-driven but you have to enter all the knowledge "by hand". Indeed some machine learning algorithms were proposed as ways to automate the creation of the large rule-bases typical of expert systems (the most prominent such algorithm being Decision Trees).
>> It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of a non-NN AI researcher regarding this.
Researchers are rarely as proscriptive as that. You may find folks who specialise in ANNs to the exclusion of other techniques (but it's true it's a vast field) but you'll probably not find anyone who wouldn't try ANNs a couple of times, and maybe publish a paper or two on them. Same goes for other trendy algorithms also.