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The World's First Graphical AI Interface (fastcodesign.com)
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.
Visual Basic for AI
You are welcome on my lawn.
That sounds really great, but can it communicate with Serenity and let them know their show was murdered?
Right, it's the old "most of us are too stupid to understand" line that shows a lack of depth of knowledge or research concerning the subject matter. The author becomes a product fanboy instead
I know this!
#DeleteChrome
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 :-)
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!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
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.
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.