> Self driving cars? Which are not yet in production
Yes they are. What do you mean, not in production? Maybe there aren't millions of fully autonomous cars on the road today, but there will be soon. They sure are in production. Companies like Tesla are making production hardware self-driving cars right now - full autonomy coming soon, of course.
> Speech recognition? Which still seems rather bad to me.
Speech recognition is 100% amazing. The phones never ever hear me wrong any more, not ever, not once. The main problem I have with it is interpretation, which can be shocking, shocking bad. (Ask Google for a joke, it'll tell you one and then prompt to you ask "one more". As soon as you do, it'll say "one more what? I don't understand", which is pretty funny.)
> Is there some big application if ML that I’m missing that is a clear win?
Well yeah. I would say millions. ML has been embedded into the world now and makes nearly every daily interaction with technology better than it was before.
> Yes they are. What do you mean, not in production? Maybe there aren't millions of fully autonomous cars on the road today, but there will be soon. They sure are in production.
Huh? They are in production but not yet in production, but they sure are in production? Can I go to the store and buy one? No. So they are still building the things!
> Speech recognition is 100% amazing. The phones never ever hear me wrong any more, not ever, not once. The main problem I have with it is interpretation, which can be shocking, shocking bad.
I simply do not believe your first point, based on my own experience. 100%? Really? Moreover, your second point, that the interpretation is off, is most of the problem. That's where 99% of the work for the foreseeable future will be spent on this problem.
Yes they are. What do you mean, not in production? Maybe there aren't millions of fully autonomous cars on the road today, but there will be soon. They sure are in production. Companies like Tesla are making production hardware self-driving cars right now - full autonomy coming soon, of course.
> Speech recognition? Which still seems rather bad to me.
Speech recognition is 100% amazing. The phones never ever hear me wrong any more, not ever, not once. The main problem I have with it is interpretation, which can be shocking, shocking bad. (Ask Google for a joke, it'll tell you one and then prompt to you ask "one more". As soon as you do, it'll say "one more what? I don't understand", which is pretty funny.)
> Is there some big application if ML that I’m missing that is a clear win?
Well yeah. I would say millions. ML has been embedded into the world now and makes nearly every daily interaction with technology better than it was before.