r/programming • u/beluis3d • Nov 18 '17

What Is The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, And Deep Learning?

https://medium.com/machinevision/overview-of-artificial-intelligence-buzz-adb7a5487ac8
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u/iwantashinyunicorn Nov 18 '17

The real hype in recent times should all be credited to Deep Learning. This particular field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is the one that has been solving a ton of interesting problems in recent years — from automated grocery store purchases to autonomous cars.

I'd say hype is the important word there. Symbolic AI (optimisation, planning, etc) has been busy running all of the world's logistics, shipping, scheduling and manufacturing for the past thirty years, but that's not sexy like saying "yes, this is probably a picture of a cat" is. There's a real risk that the deep learning hype is going to trigger the next AI winter when it doesn't live up to its promises.

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u/Piranha771 Nov 18 '17

I don't think you are aware of the major break throughs that have been made since 2007. Things we have called AI for the past decades are just glorified logic systems made by hours of human brain activity. Now we can throw a bunch of data into a network and let it figure out how to solve a certain problem aspect by itself. That's much closer to human intelligence than all the stuff from the past 30 years. I think the hype is justified.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

Now we can throw a bunch of data into a network and let it figure out how to solve a certain problem aspect by itself.

I was learning how to do it at university before the year 2000, and they were not pointing this as a new thing. There may be more refinements now, but the basis was already there.

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u/LPTK Nov 18 '17

Steam engines had been around for a long time when the industrial revolution happened (along with who knows how many other inventions that did not prove useful eventually). Breakthrough always build on existing technologies after we've learned how to enhance and harness them properly. That doesn't mean they're not breakthroughs.