Re: Microsoft admits 30% of code not written by humans

On Fri, 2 May 2025 07:55:05 -0400, Paul wrote:

Neural Networks (nn, cnn, dnn) started a long time ago. But were
noteworthy for the difficulty of translating a "problem", into a
solution. One of our USENETters was an nn developer, and vended his own
product. But he stopped showing up some years ago (correctly concluding
we weren't a market).

There is a phenomenon referred to as 'AI winter' going back to when Minsky
and Papert pointed out a perceptron couldn't handle XOR. I played with
neural nets in the '80s when back propagation improved them. However they
were overhyped and couldn't deliver given the hardware of the day. 'Expert
systems' was the next sweetheart of the press. nn's got such a bad rep it
was sort of career suicide to mention them. When they were reborn 'machine
learning' was a name to disguise them.

Anyway over the years AI blooms in the spring with extravagant promises,
stumbles in the summer, and then goes into a long, hard winter of
hibernation.