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Re:How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] by gok on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @03:44PM (#21578062)
I don't follow that. The recidivism predictor was supervised. Conversely, AlphaZero is unsupervised and certainly not BS.
Re:How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] by hervature on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @03:59PM (#21578223)
AlphaZero is not unsupervised. It is a reinforcement learning algorithm, it knows exactly what the outcome of the game is.
Re:How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] by nokcha on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:28PM (#21578998)
The terms "supervised machine learning" and "unsupervised machine learning", by their ordinary English meaning, make it sound like all machine learning is partitioned into one or the other. But a lot of the literature in machine learning considers reinforcement learning to be neither 'supervised learning' nor 'unsupervised learning'. See, e.g., section 1.1 of [1].

[1] Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto, Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, second edition. MIT press, 2018.