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by gipp 3162 days ago
Machine learning is not pixie dust.
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This has become one of my pet peeves over time. After the recent round of ML/DL/AI hype train it appears that a number of people have adopted this belief that these technologies are pixie dust you can sprinkle over any arbitrary problem and knowledge will be automatically synthesised out of nothing.

Almost like an excuse to avoid having to think about a problem. "But what about ..?" "A DEEP LEARNING AI NEURAL NETWORK WOULD TOTALLY SOLVE IT RIGHT?!"

But what if you added some ML to extract common UX patterns to it hmm?
Sounds like the perfect place to use a cryptocurrency as a distributed query ledger.