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Ask HN: What is the state of other types of AI?

by jamilbk on 7/18/24, 4:34 PM with 2 comments

Hi HN,

This is a question I've found myself wondering a lot recently. There's obviously been lots of recent progress in the state-of-the-art for LLMs and generative AI, but is this progress trickling over to other areas of AI such as machine/deep learning?

If so, what are some resources to get up to speed quickly?

by sk11001 on 7/18/24, 5:20 PM
It’s good and useful. Some use cases in NLP have moved over to using LLMs, many use cases in NLP/vision are basically using pre trained models and adding some simple similarity search or simple classification on top of it. Then you have a bunch of deep learning and non-dl methods for forecasting, tabular data, search ranking etc.
by PaulHoule on 7/18/24, 5:01 PM
Generative AI is is a subset of deep learning which is a subset of machine learning.
Note there are a huge number of other ML approaches, two that are useful in tabular data (where LLMs tend to fail) are
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/linear_model.html#lo...
and
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/ensemble.html
of which XGBoost is still winning competitions.
There is also the “old AI” based on logic that is doing well, see Donald Knuth’s notes on developments in SAT
https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~MRPRITT/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=in...