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Re:Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] by wetpaws on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @11:23PM (#18760500)
Every time there is some progress in AI people would yell "but this is not a real AI 'cause humans can..." ( play go/understand pictures/language/semantics/etc, goalpost is always in motion)
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Re:Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] by mtrimpe on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:39AM (#18761556)
AI carves away what it means to be human one trivial slice at a time.

That's how it always has been and always will be until perhaps one day there is truly nothing 'truly human' left to slice off.

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Re:Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] by dang on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @02:30AM (#18761110)
This comment crosses into incivility. Please don't do that on HN, regardless of how right you think you are compared to someone else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] by pdimitar on Thursday December 27, 2018 @01:58PM (#18771592)
Understood and point taken. Thank you.
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Re:Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] by testrun on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @12:50AM (#18760827)
As if humans in cars does not make mistakes. Last time I checked humans have intelligence.
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