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guineamax2000on The Promise of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Converging everything towards the median (google results) is not machine learning, and is making search results and the internet far worse.

Speech recognition on my phone hasn't improved much since Dragon in the 90s. I'd argue the tech today is worse because it never works without a network connection, so it basically never works unless you're in a big city.

Google translate is a running joke. I don't think that I'm allowed to comment further on Google's use of machine learning without violating NDAs, but manually fiddling with weights until you get the magic number you want is not machine learning.

Again, not really seeing any benefit. Lots of hype though.

guineamax2000on The Promise of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

I think I read about three articles like this per day.

Still haven't seen anyone actually using machine learning in any practical application yet, anywhere. Lots of neat toy demos, no real work seems to be getting done.