I’m trying to feel more comfortable using random GitHub projects, basically.

  • lemmyvore
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    018 days ago

    Bayesian filters are statistical, they have nothing to do with machine learning.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 days ago

      The A* algorithm doesn’t have anything to do with machine learning either, but the first time I ever learned about it was in a computer science class in college called something like “Introduction To Artificial Intelligence”.

      But it’s very much the case that the term “AI” has a very different meaning now-a-days during this cringy bubble than it did back in 2004 or 2005 or whenever that was.

      Today “AI” is basically synonymous with “BS”. Lol.

    • @31337
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      If you’re talking about naive bayes filtering, it most definitely is an ML model. Modern spam filters use more complex ML models (or at least I know Yahoo Mail used to ~15 years ago, because I saw a lecture where John Langford talked a little bit about it). Statistical ML is an “AI” field. Stuff like anomaly detection are also usually ML models.