AI winter is well on its way

Re:AI winter is well on its way by nopinsight on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @12:22AM (#17185050)

Because there is a dearth of experts and a lack of deep technical knowledge among many business people, there are still a great many companies that have not yet started investing in deep learning or AI despite potential profits based on current technology. Non-tech sectors of the economy are probably underinvesting at the moment.

This is analogous to the way electricity took decades to realize productivity gains in the broad economy.

That said, the hype will dial down. I am just not sure the investment will decrease soon.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by sanxiyn on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:56AM (#17185891)

While I agree there is underinvestment in non-tech sectors, I don't see why that would change and they will use deep learning. There are lots of profitable things in non-tech sectors that can be done with linear regression but not done.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by cm2187 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @06:41AM (#17186546)

There are lots of things in the non-tech sector that can be automated with simple vanilla software but isn't. To use AI instead, you need to have 1) sophisticated devs in place, 2) a management that gets the value added, 3) lots of data in a usable format, 4) willingness to invest & experiment. Lots of non-tech businesses are lacking one if not all of these.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by xamuel on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:32AM (#17187477)

This. And at the end of the day, deep learning is just a more sophisticated version of linear regression. (To listen to some people talking, you'd think if a machine just curve-fits enough data-points, it'll suddenly wake up and become self-aware or something? The delusion is just unbelievable!)

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