Artificial intelligence is a buzzword that is on everyone’s lips. The downside of this is that people take the liberty to call almost anything AI. Going by their claims, every company in the world seems to be AI-driven; whether they have a strong AI component or not is notwithstanding. And this seems to irk the researchers and puritans of the field to a great extent.
One such researcher is Michael I Jordan, who did not hold back his displeasure about how the term AI was being thrown around so casually. “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends,” he said. He believes that computers do not have the capabilities currently to compete with humans but people talk about it as they do.
Problem with terming everything as AI
Jordan is one of the leading researchers in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. He is working as a professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department and the department of statistics at the University of Berkley. He is one of the leading authorities on machine learning. One of his most significant contributions to the field is the transformation of unsupervised machine learning to help find structure in data without pre-existing labels. His work has helped transform unsupervised machine learning from a collection of algorithms to an intellectually coherent field. Unsupervised learning is an important component of several scientific applications but suffers from an absence of labelled training data; Jordan’s contribution helps remediate this challenge to a great extent.
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One such researcher is Michael I Jordan, who did not hold back his displeasure about how the term AI was being thrown around so casually. “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends,” he said. He believes that computers do not have the capabilities currently to compete with humans but people talk about it as they do.
Problem with terming everything as AI
Jordan is one of the leading researchers in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. He is working as a professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department and the department of statistics at the University of Berkley. He is one of the leading authorities on machine learning. One of his most significant contributions to the field is the transformation of unsupervised machine learning to help find structure in data without pre-existing labels. His work has helped transform unsupervised machine learning from a collection of algorithms to an intellectually coherent field. Unsupervised learning is an important component of several scientific applications but suffers from an absence of labelled training data; Jordan’s contribution helps remediate this challenge to a great extent.
Continue reading: https://analyticsindiamag.com/researchers-warn-against-false-misleading-perceptions-about-ai/
