Is Machine Learning a bunch of bullshit?

Is Machine Learning a bunch of bullshit?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    People don't understand the biggest problem of ML: Deferral of responsibility.
    >Sorry, the AI concluded you were not eligible for a credit, sorry, nothing we can do, computer said so
    >Sorry, the AI determined that your driving style is dangerous, car is now locked and can't be started, nothing we can do, computer said so
    >Sorry, we had an AI-supported imaging component in our photocopiers, the business-critical invoices and balance sheets all have wrong numbers after copying, going back 5 years. Your business is now in violation of IRS and SEC statues and will be foreclosed, nothing we can do, computer said so
    >Sorry, you receive a death sentence by lethal injection, because the AI determined with 99.99999461251 confidence that you look like the serial killer this one CCTV camera recorded, nothing we can do, computer said so

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sounds like its replicating the existing government bureaucracy. Nothing lost, nothing gained.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >dis ai be raysis yo, i wus just goin to church n helpin da homeless ppls. imma go to da medias n shiet
      Sorry sir, please have these $50 million USD and gold plated UZI.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Which would be fine (still more logical than bureaucracy), if it wasn't legal let alone possible for onions valley homosexuals like op picrel to frick with their models like that as they see fit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >problem

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is literally how the government already works.
      >Sorry we can't help you, this piece of paper says that you owe a billion dollars in speeding fines despite you having never having owned or driven a car. Pay up or die.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >problem
      but that's why they do it
      it's literally a feature

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's already how it works. All those industries already use automated software INCLUDING ML-based software in their stack, especially insurance, and already make decisions this way. While judgement isn't computer-based yet, resource allocations is already handled by software using ML that tell cops to go to so at-risk area or to ignore so safer area.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Cant you hire a human to verify the results ? Even if it has some misguided judgement, its still getting the majority of cases correct, so the person checking the results wouldnt have to correct much.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is why in cases you described you don't use machine learning model but expert system capable of understanding it's decision making process

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    black people just look like apes

    sorry but it is the truth

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    what a racist amerilard take
    as if there are no Black folk that arent "african american"

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's not bullshit, but it is just statistics on steroids.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's trial and error, on steroids.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not trial and error. Statistics. It's doing a kind of curve fitting, except it's a hypersurface in a very high dimensional configuration space. The amazing thing is that it works at all, and often fairly well.
        Still, it's only as good as your training data (at best). AI is money laundering for prejudice.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >The amazing thing is that it works at all
          It's not surprising to anyone but CStards who didn't pay attention in their undergrad maffs classes.
          The whole meme learning reneissance is basically CStards rediscovering undergrad maffs.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              It's because of morons who think ML is some kind of godsend. Tech gurus especially like to propagate it while not knowing shit about it and even worse are those singularity tards.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Ai is talked about like climate change.
                They toss around buzz words and repeat some fact they heard, but have no understanding of any of it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Cont.
                Here are the areas ML is actually useful:
                > Anything image recognition and Computer Vision-rleated
                >Translation and natural language processing
                >Advanced recommender systems
                >In more general terms, anything pattern recognition-related

                That's literally it. Anything else is either a complete meme or in it's infancy.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Just say solving problems with non-linear constraints, krugergay.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Nope. The vast majority of these problems have too many local max/mins that any ai won't converge to the global max/min.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >ai
                optimizer

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Machine learning.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                People have investigated 2nd order optimizers for ages for even NNs, and ML in general can use 4th order optimizers. Those don't get stuck in local minima, problem is they're too slow. Algos like ADAM effectively accelerate in the direction of the 2nd order diff, which approximate 2nd order methods and helps escape local minima, which is why they work so well.
                "ML" does not prescribe any specific optimizer. MCMC, EM, sampling have completely different problems than gradient-based optimizers for example, but they're still valid optimizers actively used in ML.
                Similarly, linear models have a single minimum that is always reached by gradient-based methods, but are still a kind of ML.
                Neither the optimizer nor the structure of the problem is a feature of ML.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >>In more general terms, anything pattern recognition-related
                The number of times I see a bean-counter (or vaguely technical "consultant") try to justify and shoehorn their particular business process into a pattern matching problem, solely to justify building something with "machine learning" in the name, is way too fricking damn high.
                So many computer systems really are just basic CRUD shit, because so many business problems are
                >monkey on typewriter data-entry
                >check if the data entered is correct, apply further calculations if it is
                >when someone asks for the data later, based on some arbitrary filter, return the result you calculated
                Meanwhile projects take longer because of bullshit meetings to talk bean-counters out of making the whole thing a chain of buzzwords that do nothing.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                This entire post exactly sums up the 300+% increase in investment my company is putting towards our tech departments purely for muh ML

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >into a pattern matching problem,
                Anon, pattern recognition is not the same as pattern matching. If you actually have a pattern recognition problem it's fairly difficult to get off just using basic algos.
                But yes I know what you mean regarding the rest of the post

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                AI is more than just ML

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                For all intents and purposes, no.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You say that but practically, what else is being bandwagoned by every medium to large-sized company related to AI?
                What is there that I'm missing?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                For all intents and purposes, no.

                Yes must of what is being talked about is ML. But rather than saying AI is just statistics, I think it would be better to correct people and say that ML is just statistics.

                AI is something far greater. There's no reason some day we won't be able to create neurons and arrange them in a way that is functionally a working, intelligent brain. this fits the definition of artificial intelligence. right now we are trying to do it with transistors, and I believe it is possible to achieve AI this way as well.

                What makes your own brain anything more than just statistics and pre-programming? I think it is safe to say your own brain is more than that, though it is hard to put into words. Same can be said about a cats brain. I think it is safe to say even an ant possesses intelligence.

                Theres more to intelligence than just learning. theres critical thinking. theres recognizing mistakes. There is almost universally a desire for self preservation and reproduction, and with humans things like honor or gratification. So, I dont think its fair to say that AI is just ML. learning is certainly a key part and the one most discussed, but intelligence is more than that

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                That's because you mean AGI. When people say AI and aren't an msm memespeaker, they mean "non-trivial automation".

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >AI is something far greater.
                >2 more paragraphs with abbreviation typos and rhetorical questions, and frick all for practical usecases.
                Get off of your goddamn soapbox and actually code some shit please. You're waxing poetic like you're writing the next great novella when most of programming is just making Excel dumbass proof and caching porn and cat videos at CDNs so some chinesium shitbox can play them back at 720p.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I dont see a single typo. Sure, I omit apostrophes in contractions and dont capitalize all my sentences. The only abbreviations I used were the same ones the person I was responding to used first.

                I wasnt trying to be poetic. How the frick do you try to differentiate intelligence and learning to someone who seems to think theyre the same thing? I dont give a shit about demonstrating practical use cases. AI isnt just machine learning. I dont care what you do with that information other than acknowledge that it is a true statement.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I dont see a single typo.
                >Sure, I omit apostrophes in contractions and dont capitalize all my sentences.
                anon, I....
                >I dont give a shit about demonstrating practical use cases
                Then your AI shit is useless, except for ML, where's there's actually a practical usecase for doing something with it. Even a jacquard loom can make a useful product, which is more than you can say for generalized AI research and academic masturbation.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I....
                What did you mean by this?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I really don't like arguing over such petty shit but since I have autism I am going to anyway...
                A typo is a mistake. What I am doing is being lazy, because this is BOT, not a formal email or forum or something.

                Anyway, I just disagree with "AI" being called "just statistics" because I believe AI is more than that, but I am OK with machine learning being called "just statistics". Apparently there is a term AGI (artificial general intelligence) which is more defined as what I am referring to as AI.

                I would imagine things like good chat bots or self driving cars could be considered more than just statistics and therefore more AI than ML. I suppose another aspect of AI could be the real-time aspect of it, vs machine learning, which doesnt need to be in real-time. Yes you can call these arbitrary but its all I can come up with in real time since you are putting me on the spot and forcing me to justify my belief that AI and ML are definitely distinct.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >The non-ML usages of AI either don't exist or are purely academic in nature.
                Videogame AI?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Fancy chains of if statements, with Dijkstra's algorithm somewhere in the mix for pathfinding.
                Next you'll tell me you consider a chess engine AI.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Just because it's primitive doesn't mean it's not AI.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Contarians.
              But also ai is a big meme and misleading.
              The Algorithms are neat and all but it's not creating a general intelligence no matter how it has been marketed.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >ughhh why are you excited
              Yes, why?
              The theory has been sitting unnoticed for decades (even centuries because Euler was alien). Suddenly, everyone in CS is rediscovering maffs and pretending it's some revolution they invented.
              This is you https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.17.2.152

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Compensation for lack of pussy due to severe societal rejection.
              Not rocket science.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            "Maff" predicts that it shouldn't work. Mafftards have been trying to explain it for ages and are getting nowhere.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >The whole meme learning reneissance is basically CStards rediscovering undergrad maffs.
            This is so wrong it's not even funny. Absolute ignorant midwit take. The renaissance is due to having enough computational power to implement algorithms that would have been impossible to run in a reasonable amount of time on older hardware.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >The renaissance is due to having enough computational power to implement algorithms
              Except we don't and will never, unless we have a massive cluster of so-called "analog computers"

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Is Machine Learning a bunch of bullshit?
    Its too based in fact, being based on facts and logic.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Well according to the video made on YouTube about the BOT bot.
    Apparently a bot trained on BOT wins in truthfulQA

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    As a concept, no. The current industry standard? Maybe.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    many people had made that classification 'mistake' too

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if software cant rewrite its own code, its not AI

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    absolutely not, it's the frameworks that humans create to satisfy their need for the answer they're looking for that's a bunch of bullshit

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Gif related is literally 99% of modern ML applications

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's more accurate to say it's just statistical modeling. It's all just frequencies and transformations on them, and the core is linear algebra because it allows you sufficient power that you're basically able to brute force most of the viable solution space.
    The thing is, it works. Who cares if it merely approximate what you're looking for? It fricking works. And takes no effort to boot.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's kind of interesting that AI can't get black people's faces correct

    if you gave a human 100 photos 50% gorilla 50% black person shuffled randomly they would get 0 incorrect

    obviously we've been trained for millions of years to recognise human faces but it's still interesting to me

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >if you gave a human 100 photos 50% gorilla 50% black person shuffled randomly they would get 0 incorrect
      Same if you give it to an ML algorithm. The problem is that you also give the algorithm hundreds of millions of non-gorilla non-nig photos, and it turns out that nigs look more like gorillas than they do humans unironically. You can train the model naturally until it successfully makes the difference, but doing so results in overfitting that makes the whole thing useless. This is really just a lack-of-data problem due to the distance between classes. Hence you would need to have as many faces of nigs and gorillas as you have all other images combined to have it make the right prediction.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    We don't need general intelligence.
    We need spam filters, customer support, mods for internet communities, porn filters, etc...
    And we havent gotten any of that in over a decade.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Customer support and mods for internet communities require general intelligence (it was proven mathematically).

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I mean theres chatbots thst can hold a conversation and stuff and well now theres dalle
        I would think making a customer support bot or a mod bot would be easier.
        Like train it with rigid rules and make it do whst its supposed to do. I think theyre already making the porn filter one though.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Is Machine Learning a bunch of bullshit?
    No. Don't blame the observer for what it observes.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    nope, AI is just too based

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There are really good legitimate uses of Neural Nets. Not just Speech and Image recognition, but also Audio and Visual upscaling and filtering. The entire gambit of vague unfalsifiable interpretations of images and sound.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There's nothing linear about many of the functions applied in neural networks, so no, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      they're all calculated using matrix multiplication, and matrices are core elements of linear algebra so

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Non-linearities are required to prevent the whole network from collapsing into a single linear system. Activation functions are what separate machine learning from linear algebra and what make them able to perform non-linear classification; you don't have universal approximation with just matrices.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The only bullshit part is that it's not AI , there's 0 intelligence in machine learning it's just a fancy optimization algorithm. The machine itself has no idea what it's doing it crunches numbers and gives some outputs with a probability.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You can be reductive about literally anything in STEM. Modern computing is just boolean logic, which is even more primitive than linear algebra.

    But this doesn't really give you perspective of complexity of the system. Modern computing is just boolean but x10^9. Which gives you a huge set of functions that power our modern day world.

    From the OP
    >linear algebra on crack
    Regression with a lot of computing, yields some useful functions. More known possibilities exist and will continue to be explored.

    A lot of this effort will yield dead ends, because of a bullish market. But the more understanding of the industry and NN systems, the more marketable capabilities we will derive.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's a useful statistical technique
    but most applications are you see today are bullshit

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is this the BOT vs BOT thread?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      BOT is just /misc/ + /x/ now, everyone moved to other boards.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They say machine learning but don't mean machine learning, or artificial intelligence but don't mean artificial intelligence like when they say diversity but don't mean diversity. It's the same people, everything they say is a lie.

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