On Friday, May 20, 2016, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)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