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0 pointspdimitar9y ago0 comments

UNINFORMED OPINION by a side-watcher: I don't feel there's any AI revolution at all. We simply have slightly more efficient deep learning networks due to better hardware.

Most of the time it feels like the people who are somewhat successful in those branches simply got lucky by randomly mixing elements A, B and C in an unexpected manner and boom -- magic.

In other words, things progress painfully slow and almost always it's due to intuitive shower/sleep revelations than anything else.

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kpil9y ago

The algorithms are improved, and there are more network types, and better understanding of real neurons, but I think you are mostly correct.

I built a program that played tic-tac-toe in -94, using a combination of traversing a problem tree while evaluating the positions using a neural network.

To my understanding, this is basically the same approach used to develop a Go player, only that it took a month training a minimal network to do something useful at all at the time on my small Amiga 500...

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