AI winter is well on its way

Re:AI winter is well on its way by jessaustin on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:04AM (#17185206)

How can something be biased when it's listing facts?

If there are 100 facts that indicate a coming AI winter, and Brin just talks up the 15 facts that indicate AI's unalloyed dominance, that's definitely biased.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by ehsankia on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:09AM (#17185224)

First, what are said 100 facts? The article looks at fairly mundane metrics such as number of tweets or self-driving accidents...

Second, I'm not quite sure that's how it works. Like in mathematics, if your lemma is X, you can give a 100 examples of X being true, but I only need a single counter-example to break it.

In my opinion a single valid modern use-case of AI is enough to show that we're not in an AI winter. By definition an AI winter means that nothing substantial is coming out of AI for a long period of time, yet Brin listed that Google alone has had a dozen in the past few years.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by majewsky on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:18AM (#17186000)

> First, what are said 100 facts?

You cannot ask a generic question, then attack the answer based on absence of evidence for a specific example.

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