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From: chaals
Date: Feb 6, 2017 1:27PM

I work for a company that does a lot of stuff like machine learning, to help people solve concrete problems...

06.02.2017, 18:47, "JP Jamous" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
> Although I am not opposed to AI, I do second Sarah. AI still has a long way to go despite the major progress it has accomplished.

Yep.

> I think that even at its peak AI will never be smarter than the human mind. It can assist humans just like operating systems and database systems do. However, the bottom line remains can AI analyze without previous knowledge what is occurring? In other words, can it predict or hypothesize like a human mind can?

In some circumstances, it can produce the same results. Which is the Turing test - if you can't tell how it happened, but you can't tell the difference in the outcome, then it works. It's just a more complicated version of something like a taste test. In some cases, AI can do the job. In others, it gets it horribly wrong.

For the near future, I wouldn't consider it a reliable tool - "mostly better than nothing" is probably a better assessment. And to a certain extent that is by relying on the intelligence of the person being given the information, which after all is part of what communication is about.

It's getting better. Apparently fast now, if you discount the decades already invested. And if you have access to someone's very powerful systems... but it's something that can help, rather than a clear solution, at least for now.

cheers

Chaals

> Notice that on Facebook, it states "Possible or possibly." If I ask my sighted wife, she can immediately tell me oh, "this is a picture of a male with black hair, brown eyes, bla, bla, bla"
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> So having that definite and not possible description is critical to a sightless user.
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