[rhet0rica]

From TFA:

> No machine learning model was ever built using pure “human knowledge” — because then it wouldn’t be a learning model. It would be a hard coded algorithm.

I guess the author hasn't heard of expert systems? Systems like MYCIN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin) were heralded as incredible leaps forward at the time, and they indeed consisted of pure “human knowledge.”

I am disturbed whenever a thinkpiece is written by someone who obviously didn't do their research.

[suddenlybananas]

Expert systems aren't a machine learning approach even if they're an AI approach.

[wasabi991011]

Yes, but the Bitter Lesson is about AI, not ML.

[rhet0rica]

Exactly. The expert system era was the first victim of the Bitter Lesson, as it was blown away when backpropagation was figured out at the end of the eighties.

An author familiar with the history of AI would have mentioned this instead of glossing it over as "not a learning model"—dismissing a problem-solving technique because it doesn't use regression serves no constructive purpose.

[holowoodman]

The original article is about AI. Then about machine learning. Then about AI...

The author doesn't seem to make up his mind about it. Or the article is AI-generated slop maybe.