Comment by tensor
7 months ago
ML has already succeeded to the point that it is ubiquitous and taken for granted. OCR, voice recognition, spam filters, and many other now boring technologies are all based on ML.
Anyone claiming it’s some sort of snake oil shouldn’t be taken seriously. Certainly the current hype around it has given rise to many inappropriate applications, but it’s a wildly successful and ubiquitous technology class that has no replacement.
That ML I have no problem with.
This new ML that's supposed to be the basis for an entire new economic wave, that I mostly dislike.
But I guess that's how we build new things... We explore and throw away 80% of what we've built.
Call me back when you have voice recognition that doesn't constantly fail spectacularly.
Voice recognition will never be rule based.
Thank you for this.
Reading these comments I thought I stepped into some alternate timeline when we don't already have widespread ML all over the place.
Like, nobody does rules-based image recognition for a decade now already!