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by IdiocyInAction 2001 days ago
While true, this statement is completely vacuous. The curves being fitted are extremely complicated and if you can easily construct curve fitting problems (meaning: regression) that would be breakthroughs in many scientific fields. This says more about the generality of regression tasks than it says about ML.
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My comment was focused on the phrase “artificial intelligence “ and not the tech itself. Obviously the techniques are awesome but the naming is unfortunate