AI winter is well on its way

Re:AI winter is well on its way by solomatov on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:51AM (#17185393)

AI winter is not on its way. We constantly get new breakthroughs and there's no end in the view. For example, in the last year a number of improvements in GANs were introduced. This is really huge, since GANs are able to learn a dataset structure without explicit labels, and this is a large bottleneck in applying ML more widely.

IMO, we are far away from AGI, but even current technologies applied widely will lead to many interesting things.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by felippee on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:56AM (#17185413)

I sure agree there are many interesting things going on, there is no question about that. Also most of them are toy problems focused in some restricted domains, while a huge bag of equally interesting real world problems is sitting untouched. And let me tell you, all those VC's that put in probably way north of $10B are not looking forward to more NIPS papers or yet another style transfer algorithm.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by solomatov on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:01AM (#17185428)

>Also most of them are toy problems focused in some restricted domains, while a huge bag of equally interesting real world problems is sitting untouched.

It always starts with toy problems. Recognizing pictures from imagenet was also a toy problem back then.

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