The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race

Re:The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race by sbov on Monday December 24, 2018 @04:27AM (#18751263)

I just think machines are good at some things, and people are good at others. If it really took billions of samples in related domains we wouldn't develop nearly as fast as we do after being born.

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Re:The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race by m0zg on Monday December 24, 2018 @06:24AM (#18751640)

I'm not sure I'd call it "fast" either. For the first three months babies can barely see anything, and for at least nine they can't form anything even remotely resembling speech and can't walk. What's amazing is that all this learning is very sparsely supervised and all "subsystems" train at the same time.

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Re:The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race by pdimitar on Monday December 24, 2018 @12:27PM (#18753121)

This is a human peculiarity. Many animal babies are born with fully developed abilities. I am sure we have all seen the NatGeo videos of antelope babies stumbling 2-3 times and then immediately start walking and even running.

Human babies have bigger head-to-body ratio compared to all other species due to our brain being bigger. Our babies have to be born earlier or otherwise they cannot make it out of the mother alive.

Outside of that, we develop pretty quickly. As you pointed out, everything in us is developing in parallel which is quite impressive.

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