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Re:Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated? by paulsutter on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:52PM (#14897101)
Ben Hamner (of Kaggle) on Twitter

> Replace "AI" with "matrix multiplication & gradient descent" in the calls for "government regulation of AI" to see just how absurd they are

https://twitter.com/benhamner/status/892136662171504640

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Re:Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated? by radarsat1 on Monday July 31, 2017 @10:29PM (#14897481)
Of course that's silly though. Matrix multiplication and gradient descent are methods. AI is the application of those methods (among others).

I mean, by that logic, food shouldn't be regulated, because it's just chemistry, man..

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