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45 Post author: ahartell 22 January 2013 09:15AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 January 2013 09:05:42PM 0 points [-]

BTW regarding Robin's AI progress metric, my reaction is more like Doug's (the first / most upvoted comment).

Comment author: CarlShulman 24 January 2013 09:24:17PM 2 points [-]

I agree with that comment that machine learning has been on a roll, but Robin's reply is important too. We can ask how machine learning shows up in the performance statistics for particular tasks to think about its relative contribution.