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A recent Wired article tells us about the progression of the Amazon product recommendation algorithm.
Amazon helped show the world how machines can learn. As far back as the late ’90s, the company’s online retail site would track every book, CD, and movie you purchased. As time went on, it would develop a pretty good sense of what you liked, serving up product recommendations its code predicted would catch your eye.
It wasn't rocket science. It was an algorithm. But it worked. And in the years since, the field of so-called machine learning has evolved in enormous ways, with the likes of Google, Facebook, and Microsoft training enormous networks of machines to identify faces in photos, recognize the spoken word, and instantly translate conversations from one language to another.
On Thursday, Amazon unveiled a similar machine learning service, pitching it as a way for any business to use the AI tech the company has spent years developing inside its own operation. Known as the Amazon Machine Learning Service, it’s designed for software developers “with no experience in machine learning,” AWS head Andy Jassy said on stage at a mini-conference in San Francisco.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by darkfeline on Saturday April 11 2015, @09:14PM
Whenever AI comes up, there's bound to be someone claiming AI is stupid. But it makes no sense to apply human values of intelligence to AI.
Consider the following hypothetical comparison between an average human driver and the AI of a self-driving car. We humans may think that the AI is stupid for not noticing a fidgety looking man standing on the sidewalk who suddenly flings himself onto the road. "AI will never be as smart as humans!" Yet the AI might certainly think the average human driver is stupid for rubbernecking at every construction project, police car, and pretty man/woman passing by, and the AI has a much lower accident rate than the average human driver. Tell me, who is really more "intelligent"?
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