HackerNews Summary (2023-05-21 01AM)

Source: The Bitter Lesson

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The Bitter Lesson of AI research is that general methods using computation are ultimately the most effective, compared to methods that rely on human knowledge. This is due to continued exponential growth of the amount of computation available over time according to Moore’s law.

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💻 Using massive, deep search proved vastly more effective than leveraging human understanding of the special structure of chess in computer chess, despite initial skepticism from researchers.

🎲 Similar to computer chess, computer Go researchers’ initial efforts in utilizing human understanding were later surpassed by greater success from embracing search and learning.

🗣 Early competition in speech recognition involved methods based on human knowledge, while newer, more statistical methods proved more successful.

Source: The Fastest In-Memory Data Store

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