Re:How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple
by leereeves on Thursday August 25, 2016 @09:29AM
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To me, recognizing cats isn't a very useful product; that's just a demonstration of the technology.
That led to an interesting paper and a lot of potential applications.
By "the hard work of bringing a product to market", I meant the process of perfecting the product for actual applications.
Re:How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple
by sangnoir on Thursday August 25, 2016 @09:58AM
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"recognizing cats" isn't a product at all - the AI behind it is the product, albeit barebones. I've heard folk on HN call such a thing an "MVP".
> By "the hard work of bringing a product to market", I meant the process of perfecting the product for actual applications
I'll have to disagree - "perfecting the product" is one of many roles required to bring a product to market. Other roles that are just as important are "dreamer/visionary", "practical starter/founder", "scale-up person". Sometimes one person can assume multiple roles, but rarely all roles, all of them are hard work.
what exactly do you define as "the hard work of bringing a product to market"? To me, his work at Google certainly applies as bringing a product to market - the cat recognition deeplearning AI is a product.