Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Good observation

"Just as machine learning algorithms can overfit by tuning a classifier’s parameters to the
accidental properties of a training set, a research community can overfit by refining algorithms that
have already done well on the existing data sets"



Lewis, D. D.; Yang, Y.; Rose, T.; and Li, F. RCV1: A New Benchmark Collection for Text Categorization Research. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 5:361-397, 2004. http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume5/lewis04a/lewis04a.pdf

AI

Despite the benefits of AI we are starving for humanity.