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Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by xthestreams on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:39PM (#20646653)
AI researcher here. While industry doesn't usually find the need for huge complex models, I don't think your statement is fair, nor accurate. Can you provide some examples of AI tech that in your opinion is "a lot of if statements"?
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Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by google2342 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:45PM (#20646733)
How do you expect someone to justify a statement that's not true? I suppose you could say that it's a fair characterization of a basic decision tree but that doesn't describe modern ML methods.
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Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by logn on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:52PM (#20649713)
The commenter is just referring to the nature of neural networks, a pile of weights and thresholds that you could conceivably write out as a maniacal mess of deeply nested if-statements.
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Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by _Understated_ on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:47PM (#20646744)
If you're meaning me, I probably should've ended my comment with /s

I was making a joke :)

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