{"id":1500,"date":"2019-04-25T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2019-04-25T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:02:02","slug":"chollet-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/chollet-on-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chollet on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AI is all about getting rid of the part where you code up solutions, and going straight to the part where you code up problems.
<\/p>\u2014Fran\u00e7ois Chollet<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On net, this is probably not a good description of what AI is<\/em> \u2014 and I'd like to post more about why soon \u2014 but it is a good description of what AI aspires to be<\/em>. I've been doing AI for 14 years and have yet to find a satisfactory definition, so I'll add this to the pile of decent attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AI is all about getting rid of the part where you code up solutions, and going straight to the part where you code up problems. \u2014Fran\u00e7ois Chollet On net, this is probably not a good description of what AI is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[24,55,3],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-quotes","tag-ai","tag-code","tag-computer-science","post_format-post-format-aside","wpautop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sddF-oc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1564,"url":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/bart-barrage-of-random-transforms-for-adversarially-robust-defense\/","url_meta":{"origin":1500,"position":0},"title":"BaRT: Barrage of Random Transforms for Adversarially Robust Defense","author":"jsylvest","date":"19 June 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This week I'm at CVPR \u2014 the IEEE's Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, which is a huge AI event. 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