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A a paraphrase of a kind of self-deprecating but insightful comment from a ML prof I heard: There’s a lot of hype around machine learning, but it can’t really do that much. If you want to see what it’s capable of, check your Amazon recommendations. Sort of works some of the time, and other times offers you complete nonsense. Amazon has very smart engineers and the best algorithms and tons of data. This is about the limit of what you can currently do.


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