Someone just told me that machine learning has not produced true breakthroughs in the last 20 years. Dude, I just bought a little cylinder for 20 bucks on Amazon that argues with my children about the weather and sings them their favorite songs from Spotify
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Replying to @Plinz
Meh, there are far better examples than that for both technical and rhetorical purposes. Self-driving cars or AI painting realistic images from a few blotches.
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Replying to @pwlot
Self driving cars were around since the late 1980ies, this is really mostly incremental progress.
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Replying to @Plinz
Backprop has been around since the 80s as well, thanks to researchers like Hinton. That way I can call deep learning and all of its results incremental. Which isn't necessarily incorrect, but for your point I think SIRI/ALEXA are pretty boring and meh.
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1960ies. But yes, you are of course correct. I was still impressed that $20 buys you a futuristic bluetooth speaker that can give an intro to quantum mechanics and offer a reasonable response to a certain family member's request to poop its pants.
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