Comment on Open thread, Mar. 23 - Mar. 31, 2015

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 21:13:01 GMT

NNs had lost favor in the AI community after 1969 (minsky's paper) and only have become popular again in the last decade

Yes, I'm familiar with the history. But how far would we be without the neural network work done since ~2001? The non-neural-network competitors on Imagenet like SVM are nowhere near human levels of performance, Watson required neural networks, Stanley won the DARPA Grand Challenge without neural networks because it had so many sensors but real self-driving cars will have to use neural networks, neural networks are why Google Translate has gone from roughly Babelfish levels (hysterically bad) to remarkably good, voice recognition has gone from mostly hypothetical to routine on smartphones...

What major AI achievements have SVMs or random forests racked up over the past decade comparable to any of that?

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