Machine Learning: Interesting Problems Are Never Off the Shelf
Aria Haghighi about the present and future of products based on machine learning:
But I think there’s an even bigger barrier beyond ingenious model design and engineering skills. In the case of machine translation and speech recognition, the problem being solved is straightforward to understand and well-specified. Many of the NLP technologies that I think will revolutionize consumer products over the next decade are much vaguer. How, exactly, can we take the excellent research in structured topic models, discourse processing, or sentiment analysis and make a mass-appeal consumer product?
Original title and link: Machine Learning: Interesting Problems Are Never Off the Shelf (©myNoSQL)
via: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/04/great-machine-learning-products.html
