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nice NPR story illustrating a conceptual and methodological
difference between AI and ML, using some of the more
press-grabbing, (human) game-beating systems:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/08/375736513/look-out-this-poker-playing-computer-is-unbeatable
this story's pretty interesting in general but one particular
part grabs my attention:
Oren Etzioni, the head of Seattle's Allen Institute for
Artificial Intelligence, says:
Each game-winning computer involves "very, very different
computer software," he says. In other words, they're highly
specialized tricks for winning at particular games.
There's a quantum leap between special-purpose AI systems like
Watson or Deep Blue and the truly awesome success of deepmind,
which uses deep reinforcement learning to beat all of these
Atari games ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ )
using raw pixel values as input. Machine learning focuses on
learning general methods that can solve MANY problems, rather
than the (usually rules-heavy) AI approaches found to beat
particular challenges.
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