AI is Just a Bad Student.
Last Updated on November 6, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
An analogy to explain how deep learning works…
Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
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When we talk about artificial intelligence, or AI, we tend to mean deep learning. Summarising text, generating sentences, removing the background of images, recommending the next movie you should watch, or even detecting cancer earlier, deep learning powers much of the state-of-the-art technology in the world right now, including ChatGPT or MidJourney. Although useful and increasingly powerful, is this intelligence? Let’s begin by imagining a group of computer scientists and a very large elephant in the same room. Nervous grins and darting eyes follow whenever someone points at the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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