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by minimaxir 1327 days ago
The problems where traditional ML works best and the problems where Transformers or ConvNets work best are usually two different domains.

AI is not a buzzword.

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>The problems where traditional ML works best and the problems where Transformers or ConvNets work best are usually two different domains.

Yes and we are using NN for everything.

But we aren't. Outside of using AEs for embeddings and then feeding them through a boosted tree model I don't know anyone using NNs for tabular data. We all use XGBoost or Catboost, etc.