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> recently got a lot of traction

This flips causality - funding didn't really really pick up until the last 5 years or so - about two years after the initial breakthrough.

Look, I agree with this comment - managers are super eager to apply ML to tasks it has no business being applied to (at least yet). But your original claim was that all the new techniques are just glorified maximum likelihood optimization. That's just false.



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I don't feel any less right about that statement. When you dumb things down to a single sentence - current AI really only is what I cyted..

I mean your original statement was only four sentences, but that's fine.

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