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Re:When to assume neural networks can solve a problem by sacado2 on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:40PM (#22732084)
It's not revolutionizing everything in the field of AI. It's "only" good at prediction in domains where data is poorly structured, such as images, audio, video, text and some games (which is a lot to be fair, hence the publicity it got in the recent years). It's not that great on structured data or on small datasets, and is not really adapted to anything not related to raw, "black-boxed" prediction.

I'm not sure what you'd expect that tool to do regarding the current epidemic.

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Re:When to assume neural networks can solve a problem by jonesn11 on Monday March 30, 2020 @09:40PM (#22734177)
Not good on "small datasets", well in theory, but in practice transfer learning given a similar training distribution can take you quite far.
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