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by ghaff 3072 days ago
>AI stuff has a tendency to get nearly good enough quite quickly, and then improve very little more for decades afterwards.

What tends to happen is that some approach, deep learning in the current case, turns out to be very effective for a class of problems. But it turns out that it only gets you, say, 90 percent of the way there to being truly useful in the real world. And there isn't an obvious way to get you the other 10 percent.