Bharat, I had the same double take but upon pondering I assumed it meant clinical decision making group (the MIT enclave).
Landon On 22 August 2018 22:21:49 GMT-04:00, Bharat Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 4:54 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> First, stepping back, https://youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k provides some >examples >> of my ML and AI involve too much magical thinking. That jobs with >some of >> the points in the Quanta essay. I'm especially sensitive to this >because of >> days of AI including a stint in the MIT clinical decision making >group >> (over four decades ago). The focus wasn't just on computing but also >> understanding how doctors approached problems. Humans don't do a >great job >> either. >> > >A big fan of James Mickens types of guys who always call for skepticism >and >careful analysis and continual improvement in our mental models of how >things work. > > >> But when I see >> >> "Three decades ago, a prime challenge in artificial intelligence >research >> was to program machines to associate a potential cause to a set of >> observable conditions. Pearl figured out how to do that using a >scheme >> called Bayesian networks. Bayesian networks made it practical for >machines >> to say that, given a patient who returned from Africa with a fever >and body >> aches, the most likely explanation was malaria. In 2011 Pearl won the >> Turing Award, computer science’s highest honor, in large part for >this >> work." >> >> I'm wary because in that CDMG we recognized that Bayesian approaches >> didn't work when there wasn't a well-defined space of choices. > >Pardon my ignorance, but what is CDMG ? > >Regards, >Bharat -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
