An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016)

Re:An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016) by cosmic_ape on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:53AM (#15904244)

I think their hype got even you a little bit. That is revealed by the word "even" in the phrase: 'people calling CNNs or even non-deep-learning models "AI"'...

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Re:An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016) by perturbation on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:02AM (#15906530)

What I mean by this is - I don't see how anyone could reasonably call a Random Forest "AI" with a straight face, whereas someone could (wrongly, but understandably) call a CNN / RNN / etc. AI if only because it has the word "neural" in it.

There's two groups:

- People who are overly enthusiastic about neural nets

- People who are cynically calling every ML algorithm "AI", up to and including linear regression

and I'm more annoyed at the last one.

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Re:An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016) by soared on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:37PM (#15909227)

To anyone non-technical, a decision is AI. 99% of the world is non-technical so its probably only going to continue to be this way.

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