Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

You might be surprised where AI shows up.

Use a credit card? Fraud monitoring, KYC, and other financial models run through (e.g. Early Warning service).

Log into a website? Application monitoring with anomaly detection.

Own a 401k with shares in a financial vehicle like an ETF? AI used to predict the market for in-the-money trades.

Gone to the ER? Risk levels of mortality, sepsis, etc. are constantly pushed to your medical record (in many top-tech hospitals, like Parkland Hospital in Dallas and similar).




Do any of those applications use neural nets in any non-trivial way? I'm pretty sure that kind of stuff is all classical statistical modeling.


Yep, they do. But remember, neural nets are a part of ML, not the universe of ML. The amount of sunshine between statistical learning and ML and mostly negligible.


I believe most of these applications are based on statistical methods, but not what is commonly known as AI/ML.


This is like when the Scooby Doo gang pulls the mask off the mayor. ML and statistical learning are broadly the same thing. There is arguably some, but not much, sunshine in the area of RL.

AI itself is a superset of whatever difference one may see between Stats and ML, as algos don't specifically require uncertainty.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: