Re:Simple questions to help reduce AI hype
by argonaut on Sunday July 10, 2016 @07:56AM
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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).
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).