Re:We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone
by mark_l_watson on Monday September 30, 2019 @09:15AM
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Thanks for your response. Sure, the level of hype is rather high for DL.
That said, I also lived through and worked through the level of hype around expert systems. I think the high level of hype around expert systems in the 1980s was much more extreme and unwarranted that the DL hype levels. I base this on selling expert system tools for both Xerox Lisp Machines and for the Macintosh when it was released in 1984. Some of my customers did cool and useful things, but nothing earth shaking.
At least DL provides very strong engineering results for some types of problems.
That said, I also lived through and worked through the level of hype around expert systems. I think the high level of hype around expert systems in the 1980s was much more extreme and unwarranted that the DL hype levels. I base this on selling expert system tools for both Xerox Lisp Machines and for the Macintosh when it was released in 1984. Some of my customers did cool and useful things, but nothing earth shaking.
At least DL provides very strong engineering results for some types of problems.