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Wow good write up, i just made it a few paragraphs in but had to comment. especially after just reading thru the IBM watson 'AI' bullshizz, this is refreshing and reminds me that there are folks who are trying to think about this stuff in new ways rather then just hyping/selling the out of 'AI' so your new BigCo can burn thru 10/100s of millions on some shy project =)

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In fact the majority of people who actually do ML/DL or Applied AI in other forms think this way by default.

As usual, Ben Evans backs into the standard understanding from the experts in the field as though it's revelation.

That's the point - to explain how people in the field are thinking about this stuff. Most people outside SV don't know what the experts in the field are saying. Indeed, many people in SV don't know this ;) If you already know all of this, you're not the target audience.

That's fair enough. It's a running joke with applied ML people that half of your job, if you have any sense of professionalism, is convincing possible clients that no, they probably don't need to use a 41 layer DNN to send a follow up email.

A database consultant once told me that half his gigs were telling people with a database to use Excel

Funny - half of my experiences talking with nonprofits were telling people with an Access database to migrate to a proper SQL database.

It's exactly the kind of thing I want to share with non-technical decision makers (as a practitioner).

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