Re:AI startup claims to automate app making but actually jus...
by ajross on Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:46PM
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> AI is the biggest fraud of the 21st century.
That's a bit much. ML techniques have large and proven market applications[1]. And there's a bunch of hangers on trying to spin the buzz into a quick buck. This seems like pretty boring, run of the mill fraud to me.
[1] Which, to be fair, tend to all fall within the realm of "do with a cheap computer what an expensive human can do easily", like looking at or listening to things. "Writing software" should have been an obvious cue that they were way beyond the known reach of the technology.
That's a bit much. ML techniques have large and proven market applications[1]. And there's a bunch of hangers on trying to spin the buzz into a quick buck. This seems like pretty boring, run of the mill fraud to me.
[1] Which, to be fair, tend to all fall within the realm of "do with a cheap computer what an expensive human can do easily", like looking at or listening to things. "Writing software" should have been an obvious cue that they were way beyond the known reach of the technology.