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by virgilp 2053 days ago
There's never going to be a `ML.isCat(image)`, just like there isn't a `Math.solveProblem(hypothesis)`. Yes you do have `Math.abs` and you're going to have stuff `model.fit()` and `layers.dense()` - but something like `ML.isCat` is too specific to be used in a library
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sillysaurusx 2053 days ago
Disagree. In the future, that'll be `npm install ml-cat` followed by `MLCat = require('ml-cat'); MLCat.isCat(image)`

It might not be npm, but something like that is probably inevitable.

The reason it seems so unlikely is because the tooling isn't there yet. No one even agrees how ML code should look, let alone how libs should be distributed to end users. But I saw the transformation for JS in 2008.

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virgilp 2053 days ago
the range of problems you can solve with ML/AI is simply too wide for there to be fully-canned solutions for everything. Sure, there will be canned solutions for _some_ things - maybe even for cat detection, because it's fun so why not.

But, a library that uses AI to optimize the production of your business' flux capacitors? Ain't gonna happen, you need to build that yourself. To have a library/product that solves problems using AI, you need a "language" to describe the problem (like you can e.g. use SQL to describe any data query you may have). But describing problems is notoriously hard - accurately & precisely describing the problem is very often just as hard as solving it.

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sillysaurusx 2053 days ago
Mm, it's a bit like arguing that "the range of text editor customization is simply too wide for there to be fully-canned solutions for everything." Meanwhile, elisp wiki go brr.

I think ML solutions will increasingly take the form of an elisp script rather than a python library, but it'll take a little while to get there.

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virgilp 2053 days ago
> it's a bit like arguing that "the range of text editor customization is simply too wide for there to be fully-canned solutions for everything."

But the the range of editor customization really isn't that wide. That's exactly what I'm arguing, that ML/AI is more like "math" than like "editor customization".

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csande17 2053 days ago
Apple begs to differ: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/vnanimalide...
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