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Re:AI winter is well on its way by felippee on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @12:12AM (#17185016)
I certainly encourage everybody to consult the source material! Man, this is a blog, opinion by default not perfect.

But when I hear the keyword "major advances" I'm highly suspicious. I had seen already so many such "major advances" that never went beyond a circle of self citing clique.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by evrydayhustling on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @12:27AM (#17185067)
As a very concrete "major advance" consider Google Translate's tiny language models [1] that can beam to your phone, live in a few megabytes, and translate photographed text for you with low power usage. This was done with incredibly expensive centralized training, but checks every meaningful box for "scalable" AI.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2015/07/how-google-translate-squee...

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