[leesec]

Seems like people will keep being needlessly negative and dismissive of AI right up until the singularity.

But really, what did AI do to this guy? ML really does have real world applications. Though many self driving start ups are overblown, my Tesla really does drive me to work everyday.

As always, things are easy to critize, and hard to create.

[eli_gottlieb]

>But really, what did AI do to this guy?

He's a founder of an ML startup with published papers.

[leesec]

So hes a masochist or?

Seems to hate ML.

[acdha]

Reading his post, I don’t see anything suggesting that he hates ML as opposed to companies over-promising what the technology is capable of.

[streetcat1]

He hates ML as a pattern recognizer (I.e. have no real understanding of the world).

He does not hate symbolic ML which is based on logic/knowledge (and do understand the world).

[eli_gottlieb]

Nah, he just applies his ordinary Slavic pessimism and cynicism to it.