On Friday, May 20, 2016, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Seems like a good summary: http://www.wired.com/2016/05/the-end-of-code/
Comments welcome, especially from Wikimedia AI experts who ae working on ORES.
Pine
Its rather over the top. But if we are going to hype something to insane levels, at least machine learning is more interesting than the cloud.
Historically, publicitly of AI research goes in boom and bust cycles. Eventually people will realize that the singularity has not arrived (yet!), get bored, and convince themselves that some other fad is going to rewrite society as we know it*
*To be clear, im not saying ML isnt cool - it is very cool. But like all technologies it has strengths and weaknessess. It will not usher in a new era that is fundamentally different from the current. Or at least there is quite a ways to go before we get to that point.
--bawolff