Re:Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surp...
by trhway on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:05AM
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>I wonder what would have happened if we poured the same amount of money, talent and hardware into SVMs, random forests, KNN, etc.
people did that to horses. No car resulted from it, just slightly better horses.
>I saw some YouTube coders doing calls to OpenAI's o1 model for some very simple classification tasks. That isn't the best tool for the job.
This "not best tool" is just there for the coders to call while the "simple SVMs and KNN" would require coding and training by those coders for the specific task they have at hand.
people did that to horses. No car resulted from it, just slightly better horses.
>I saw some YouTube coders doing calls to OpenAI's o1 model for some very simple classification tasks. That isn't the best tool for the job.
This "not best tool" is just there for the coders to call while the "simple SVMs and KNN" would require coding and training by those coders for the specific task they have at hand.