Simon Willison’s Weblog

Without deep understanding of the basic tools needed to build and train new algorithms, he says, researchers creating AIs resort to hearsay, like medieval alchemists. "People gravitate around cargo-cult practices," relying on "folklore and magic spells," adds François Chollet, a computer scientist at Google in Mountain View, California.

— Matthew Hutson

# 4:53 pm / machine-learning, ai, francois-chollet