Re:Ask HN: Can someone please say where AI is real?
by forgottenacc57 on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @08:29AM
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It's a funny thing that handwriting recognition is seen as worthwhile. Who writes by hand any more, and who prefers handwriting to a keyboard?
1. It's not for an adtech or financial application.
2. It's not for a company that's primarily adtech or finance.
Though clearly AI has value, it seems in practice much of it is implemented for things of questionable human value.
Some examples:
1. Search (some argue the heavy personalization has made it actually less accurate, but that's subjective).
2. Computer vision (main monetization seems to be computer vision/filters. Self driving cars will be useful if and when that comes to fruition)
3. Handwriting recognition. I think this is a great example of AI being helpful. I'm not sure how much of this is "AI" vs. just statistics and machine learning. Maybe it's all the same, in this context.