Re:‘Artificial Intelligence’ Was the Fake News of 2016
by Eridrus on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:11PM
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There are two ways to interpret what Hinton says:
a) the algorithms are unimportant because all that we needed was computation
b) the algorithms were ahead of their time
I think that it is actually the latter that is true; in the same way that electricity was a precondition for computation. Babbage designed the difference engine and the analytical engine before they could realistically be implemented, this doesn't mean the design was unimportant.
a) the algorithms are unimportant because all that we needed was computation
b) the algorithms were ahead of their time
I think that it is actually the latter that is true; in the same way that electricity was a precondition for computation. Babbage designed the difference engine and the analytical engine before they could realistically be implemented, this doesn't mean the design was unimportant.