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Self-Aware: Do they know & care they have the problem?
It seems like the answer should be “obviously yes,” but often the answer is “shockingly no.”
If a person does not already believe they have a problem, they will not be surfing the Internet looking for a solution, and even if they happen upon your website somehow, you cannot get them to spend money to solve a problem they don’t think they have.
Excuse Me, Is There a Problem?
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About 70,000 years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures. The subsequent development of these human cultures is called history.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Systematic reviews of published research in many areas have found that the majority of machine-learning-based research that was re-examined turned out to be flawed.39 The reason is not always nefarious; machine learning is inherently tricky, and it is extremely easy for researchers to fool themselves. Overall, research teams in more than a dozen fields have compiled evidence of widespread flaws in their own arenas, unaware that they were all part of a far-reaching credibility crisis in machine learning.
AI Snake Oil
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
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