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David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Breakthrough in Machine Learning?

There's many very smart people working on this and they're basically trying to sell their ideas as a component that should be part of the system. And then I would say, I need to understand how the improvement on that component metric is going to affect the end to end performance. If you can't estimate that and can't do experiments to demonstrate that, it doesn't get in. That's like the best run AI project I've ever heard. Okay. What breakthrough would you say? Was there like a breakthrough that really helped improve performance? Or is it just a gradual process?

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