Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft admits 30% of code not written by humans Date: 2 May 2025 20:46:02 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <1swQP.482450$Pbo3.305517@fx34.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net j4BGMk7DelEFR1Dzg/7iowqD1dTPSAxn1k+ptMDsUa77uXknT9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:us9yqiRD5M9P7st2wA4aaJjlIRo= sha256:WX9vtV8JkkDbGbmce6VMzjmQVVK/jZ0WlUUZms4uVFI= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:689873 alt.comp.os.windows-11:18995 On Fri, 2 May 2025 07:55:05 -0400, Paul wrote: > Neural Networks (nn, cnn, dnn) started a long time ago. But were > noteworthy for the difficulty of translating a "problem", into a > solution. One of our USENETters was an nn developer, and vended his own > product. But he stopped showing up some years ago (correctly concluding > we weren't a market). There is a phenomenon referred to as 'AI winter' going back to when Minsky and Papert pointed out a perceptron couldn't handle XOR. I played with neural nets in the '80s when back propagation improved them. However they were overhyped and couldn't deliver given the hardware of the day. 'Expert systems' was the next sweetheart of the press. nn's got such a bad rep it was sort of career suicide to mention them. When they were reborn 'machine learning' was a name to disguise them. Anyway over the years AI blooms in the spring with extravagant promises, stumbles in the summer, and then goes into a long, hard winter of hibernation.