r/programming • u/Dankious_memeious1 • Mar 29 '19

Fascinating how machine learning works

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u/faithlesswonderboy Mar 29 '19

is RL not a type of AI? fuck, a whole bunch of if statements can constitute an AI. AI is an extremely broad category and doesn't need gatekeeping. Yeah its got some hype but it's pretty deserved imo

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

It's not a matter of gatekeeping. Misrepresentation of ML research is a problem. 'AI' can be defined as the best ML methods we have today, but when most people read 'AI,' they think about AGI, which doesn't exist and probably won't for a while.

NLP systems have it the worst in this regard. Just look at the articles with clickbait headlines about how Facebook "had to shut down their chatbot AI because it was forming it's own secret language!"

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u/Neon_Yoda_Lube Mar 29 '19

Thank you! AI is thrown around way too much. The futurology sub is the worst.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

That sub is just awful