Re:An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
by bumby on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:30AM
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I think both your post and the one you are responding to are correct.
I’ve experienced what the OP was alluding to...namely, it helps tremendously to start out with an understanding of the problem you’re trying to solve, more so in supervised learning. It’s incredibly frustrating to ask managers what business problem they are trying to solve only to be met with “We don’t know, that’s what we want the software to tell us.”
On the other hand, if they say “we want to predict machine failures” or “reduce maintenance downtime” now we have a lens in which to view the data.
If AI could do the magic as those managers hoped, they would be out of a job
I’ve experienced what the OP was alluding to...namely, it helps tremendously to start out with an understanding of the problem you’re trying to solve, more so in supervised learning. It’s incredibly frustrating to ask managers what business problem they are trying to solve only to be met with “We don’t know, that’s what we want the software to tell us.”
On the other hand, if they say “we want to predict machine failures” or “reduce maintenance downtime” now we have a lens in which to view the data.
If AI could do the magic as those managers hoped, they would be out of a job