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by dreamlessfate 1351 days ago
Your example wasn't a good example. For starters, it's literally a binary decision to make (yes/no: is this jstx1 trying to unlock the phone?).

Most of the tough, interesting, challenging problems in this world don't boil down to binary decisions.

Second, facial recognition doesn't depend (inherently) on artificial intelligence. It's not a great example. It's not a truly interesting, tough problem. It's not in the realm of fuzzy logic, concurrency, periodic or aperiodic behavior, or nonlinear relationships.

Could a Neural Net do it faster? Yeah, sure, maybe. But so what? You have a quicker algorithm, a faster heuristic.

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PaulHoule, on the other hand, gave a great example:

>For instance, where should a modern book on digital photography be filed in the library? Should it go in the 000's with computing? In the 700's under art? Or in the 600's with technology (an application of optics, electronics, etc.)

I don't how you expect a non-binary example when you've titled your own question "Sigmoid Functions & Binary Classification".