Insight. Applied.
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A recent article on the Harvard Business School’s Digital Initiative blog argues that we need to move beyond prediction to create "decision machines".
It is decisions, not predictions, that have consequences.
I couldn’t agree more. However, I’m not sure that the current focus on statistical machine learning is going to lead us there.
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It appears that the singularity is here.
Google Deepmind have created an adaptation of the DQN algorithm—which combines Q-learning with a deep neural network—to enable a computer to beat us at 31 Atari classics (including Space Invaders).
Any other task that AI could be applied to now seems so unimportant…