The World's First Graphical AI Interface (fastcodesign.com) 54
FastCompany reports: Machine learning and artificial intelligence are so difficult to understand, only a few very smart computer scientists know how to build them. But the designers of a new tool have a big ambition: to create the Javascript for AI. The tool, called Cortex, uses a graphical user interface to make it so that building an AI model doesn't require a PhD. The honeycomb-like interface, designed by Mark Rolston of Argodesign, enables developers -- and even designers -- to use premade AI "skills," as Rolston describes them, that can do things like sentiment analysis or natural language processing. They can then drag and drop these skills into an interface that shows the progression of the model. The key? Using a visual layout to organize the system makes it more accessible to non-scientists.
Windows Me (Score:5, Funny)
Visual Basic for AI
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VB was actually a decent language. Javascript, OTOH...
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...has lambdas and highly late-bound, which is much nicer.
If you want your program to fail spectacularly and in non-crashing ways during runtime instead of during compile time yes.
Some of us consider incorrect output to be way worse than a segfault.
Also, typing errors (As in pressing the wrong key on the keyboard.) should lead to compile time errors rather than performing something incorrect.
Verbosity isn't necessarily a bad thing in languages.
Hell yes! Somebody please mod parent up. I'm tired of having errors pop up at runtime that would simply be *impossible* in any decent language.
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Hell yes! Somebody please mod parent up. I'm tired of having errors pop up at runtime that would simply be *impossible* in any decent language.
Me too. Which is why I ditched C(++) with its obscure runtime library memory management errors for Lisp almost two decades ago. Such types of errors should be impossible today, yet I saw very expensive applications crashing with them for no good reason.
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If you want your program to fail spectacularly and in non-crashing ways during runtime instead of during compile time yes.
Surely, blaming your tools for your inadequacies is always an option. And yet, the many business applications written in Smalltalk happily chug along just fine...
Some of us consider incorrect output to be way worse than a segfault.
Because lack of segfaults ensures absence of logic errors!
Also, typing errors (As in pressing the wrong key on the keyboard.) should lead to compile time errors rather than performing something incorrect.
I'm not sure if we're on the same wavelength but that is exactly a part of JS's scoping problems. Proper lexical scoping with modules prevents this type of errors.
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How do you make AI stupid? (Score:1)
Give it a graphical interface and hand it over to a bunch of "UX engineers".
Pretty soon it'll have a pastel Fisher-Price interface copied from Chrome.
It is a nice product but... (Score:1)
come on, world's first? There are many GUIs about these topics.
Re: It is a nice product but... (Score:2)
Drag and drop? (Score:1, Troll)
If it doesn't have all the possible skills, would it still be intelligent?
Oh, I see, this is just in case you just want to build a PI (President 'Intelligence') where you'd just need a small subset of skills.
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10 print "I thought it would be easier."
20 end
Cortex Huh? (Score:3)
That sounds really great, but can it communicate with Serenity and let them know their show was murdered?
This is UNIX! (Score:3)
I know this!
Data Wrangilng (Score:5, Interesting)
My experience is that getting the data ready for the "math" part is about 80% of the work, and you have to know something about the models to know how to prep the data. For example, a recent text classification I did with Python and Keras has about 10 lines of code to define, train and test the neural network - but a whole lot more code to extract the data I needed and then beat it into shape for the modeling step.
That said, I'm quite happy with "Python for AI', as it's quick and simple to do things. Please don't make it suck like Javascript :-)
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While all that is true, I would welcome a lot more advancement in visualization tools for deep learning.
The current tools are inadequate to easily understand why the network is doing poorly, when it is.
We need way more than the current tensorboard. If anyone knows of any practical visualization tools (not academic demos) that they use for their work, please share.
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For my own ease of use during the project I wrote a front end for it (all done in Java) that allowed you to set the parameters by choosing icons for aggression, sassyness, kindness and humour.
I have to ask. How did the cows demonstrate humour?
As for the article.. can this AI pass a Turing test? It can't? Get out of here.
I know the Turing test isn't a good measure of AI, but I am getting tired of seeing articles about machine learning with the "OMG! WE HAVE AI!" banner draped over them.
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Not at all javascript like (Score:2)
It bears a much closer resemblance to texture processing in 3d modeling apps.There may be other specific domains that have this sort of approach, but web development is certainly not one of them.
Toddlers and hand grenades (Score:2)
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are so difficult to understand, only a few very smart computer scientists know how to build them.
Which, amplified by 'fantasy' input from television, movies, fiction, and the media, is probably why apparently the vast majority of people over-estimate the capabilities of so-called 'AI', attributing capabilities to it that it does not and cannot posess, and trust the technology way too much.
The tool, called Cortex, uses a graphical user interface to make it so that building an AI model doesn't require a PhD.
Great. Now we'll have unqualified people, with an almost total lack of understanding, believing they can be 'AI Scientists', creating even more half-assed excuses for AI. Wonderful.
Coming soon to a Best Buy near yo
Re:Toddlers and hand grenades (Score:4, Interesting)
Coming soon to a Best Buy near you: Do-it-yourself Home Nuclear Reactor kits! What could possibly go wrong?
I don't know, but I would definitely buy one. Do they have an IoT version? Gift it to your neighbors!
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IoT version
Thanks, you made me spit my coffee all over the place. xD
Huh? (Score:2)
Well, this is total bullshit:
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are so difficult to understand, only a few very smart computer scientists know how to build them.
Clueless Vaporware (Score:5, Interesting)
I see pictures with too little resolution to read almost all of their text. I see no links to any demos. I see an UI which is claimed to be awesome but instead draws linkage lines directly on top of the text of other elements. I see an app store where they can rake in a ton of profit. I expect this system to be hyped like crazy and then never be usable.
The author (or the company's media folks) know so little about AI that they mistake the categories of AI for actual things which can be built. You can't build "machine learning" but you can build something which uses machine learning or a framework for doing ML. The author isn't an expert in this field, so their claim of the first GAI is completely untrustworthy. They're also using the term incorrectly. A Graphical AI Interface would be a graphical interface which is used by an AI, not an interface to an AI system. Just like GUIs are graphical interfaces used by a user, not an interface to the user.
There is nothing good in the article. It's all fluf, buzz words, and misdirection with no proof of any of it.
Making AI algorithms doesn't require a PhD (Score:3)
What these dudes making AI with a PhD are doing instead is a new level of bullshitting with fancy words that impresses people with money and of course legislators who are about as clueless regarding computer technology. They think manipulating a URL to look at the image directory of a server is "hacking".
Machine learning isn't all that complex and it sure isn't even new either. I agree with others here that this is just an ignorant journalism major spouting off buzz words.
If you want to see a really nice GUI designed AI interface? Grab Scratch from MIT and then look at some of the AI experiments that have been done in that programming environment. They aren't necessarily all that fast and certainly some other programming environments would make them work more efficiently, but it isn't even all that new.
Also.... the other shoe dropped when they got into the "app store" business model the developers of this "Cortex" programming environment started to explain what they were doing. It is a scam to separate you from money in your wallet where the author bought into the buzz words to make this seem like a cool thing.
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