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Re:Simple questions to help reduce AI hype by lottin on Sunday July 10, 2016 @04:40AM (#12064975)
We'll see whether this is true when ML has actually changed huge parts of human life. So far it hasn't changed much, to be honest.
Re:Simple questions to help reduce AI hype by nickmorri on Sunday July 10, 2016 @07:00AM (#12065216)
The recent advances in speech and image recognition alone have had tremendous impact. Many areas of day to day life have been impacted.
Re:Simple questions to help reduce AI hype by argonaut on Sunday July 10, 2016 @07:56AM (#12065335)
This is generally overblown. What has mainly happened so far is that already-existing products have been incrementally improved by deep learning - speech recognition, spam detection, search ranking, etc. all worked reasonably well before deep learning came along; deep learning just improved them.

There aren't actually that many actually massively-impactful image recognition products out there yet (there are certainly products with the potential to be impactful, e.g. medical diagnostics, but it is too early to call).