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Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"?
  • I thank you for your critic but I'm not writing a research paper here and therefore wikipedia is a good ressource for the uniniated public. This is also why I think it's sufficient to know a) what an artificial neural network is by talking about the simplest examples b) this field of research didn't initiate 10 years ago as often conceived by public, when first big headlines were made. These tradeoffs are always made: correctness vs simplification. I see your disagreeing with this PoV but that's no reason to be condescending.

  • Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"?
  • The specifics are a bit different, but the main ideas are much older than this, I'll leave here the Wikipedia

    "Frank Rosenblatt, who published the Perceptron in 1958,[10] also introduced an MLP with 3 layers: an input layer, a hidden layer with randomized weights that did not learn, and an output layer.[11][12] Since only the output layer had learning connections, this was not yet deep learning. It was what later was called an extreme learning machine.[13][12]

    The first deep learning MLP was published by Alexey Grigorevich Ivakhnenko and Valentin Lapa in 1965, as the Group Method of Data Handling.[14][15][12]

    The first deep learning MLP trained by stochastic gradient descent[16] was published in 1967 by Shun'ichi Amari.[17][12] In computer experiments conducted by Amari's student Saito, a five layer MLP with two modifiable layers learned internal representations required to classify non-linearily separable pattern classes.[12]

    In 1970, Seppo Linnainmaa published the general method for automatic differentiation of discrete connected networks of nested differentiable functions.[3][18] This became known as backpropagation or reverse mode of automatic differentiation. It is an efficient application of the chain rule derived by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1673[2][19] to networks of differentiable nodes.[12] The terminology "back-propagating errors" was actually introduced in 1962 by Rosenblatt himself,[11] but he did not know how to implement this,[12] although Henry J. Kelley had a continuous precursor of backpropagation[4] already in 1960 in the context of control theory.[12] In 1982, Paul Werbos applied backpropagation to MLPs in the way that has become standard.[6][12] In 1985, David E. Rumelhart et al. published an experimental analysis of the technique.[7] Many improvements have been implemented in subsequent decades.[12]"

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  • It's a shame really... the country is being destroyed by these people. Big public projects and the money just disappears. Ordinary people paying their taxes and trying the best for their families, but some smugs just want it all. Nobody would ever need this much money.

    Many need to leave their beloved homes because the lack of perspective caused by the Mafia in their region like ndrangheta in Calabria. Like a disease they've also been spreading to Germany already.

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  • Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"?
  • To the second question it's not novel at all. The models used were invented decades ago. What changed is Moores Law striked and we got stronger computational power especially graphics cards. It seems that there is some resource barrier that when surpassed turns these models from useless to useful.

  • it's honest work
  • Yes, they ban moderators in the full knowledge in reducing the quality and well behavedness of users and to increase traffic by upset people. This is exactly what they want: upset people = engagement. This how Twitter works or maybe used to work, I didn't follow the recent changes too closely.

  • Early disappointment
  • I didn't go to university, because I wanted to learn useful stuff, but because I'm curiousity driven. There is so much cool stuff and it's very cool to learn it. That's the point of university that it prepares you for a scientific career where the ultimate goal is knowledge not profit maximisation (super idealistically).

    Talking about Turing Machines it's such a fun concept. People use this to build computers out of everything - like really - it became a Sport by this point. When the last Zelda was Released the first question for many was, if they can build a computer inside it.

    Does it serve a practical purpose? At the end of the day 99% of the time the answer will be no, we have computing machines built from transistors that are the fastest we know of, lets just use these.

    But 1% of the time people recognize something useful... hey we now found out in principle one can build computers from quantum particles... we found an algorithm that could beat classical computers in a certain task... we found a way to actually do this in reality, but it's more proof of concept (15 = 5×3)... and so on

  • Seeing all this bad and negative things going on the internet let's change the pace, what is something that's good and you're excited for?
  • I don't agree. It depends really on what you're using it for. I have one machine with Xubuntu installed and it's been used just for browsing or putting movies to the tv and it's been just plug and play so far.

    There was the one issue, of not being able to use some streaming services, because of drm protection meaning you can only stream via their windows desktop app not via browser. I took it as an invitation for streaming the stuff from somewhere else for free shrug

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    Man sagt hinter jedem Schild steckt eine Geschichte. Auch hier im 18ten Bundesland Region Gardasee (nach 17 = Mallorca).Mir gefällt die Liebe zum Details, also die Verwendung von laminiertem Papier.

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