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by brabel 839 days ago
> Very cool result but the title is overselling the "AI" contribution. It seems like they trained a few standard binary classifiers (Naive Bayes, decision trees, kNN).

But it seems they would never have even suspected there were such patterns if the "AI" had not provided evidence for them?

By the way: the tools mentioned, like decision trees, Bayes and kNN were all taught in the AI course I attended one and a half decade ago... AI was basically ML at the time, but nowadays it seems that ML has become "just statistics", and AI only includes LLMs.

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There are plenty of companies using ML methods (DT, Bayes, kNN), normal NN etc now that the AI money spigot is wide open, if only as part of the "shit in, shit out" process.