At the recent Legalweek New York AI Bootcamp Workshop, I was reminded of a very small, cheap pocket dictionary that I once bought at a book fair when I was in third grade. One day, while looking up definitions, I came across the entry for “bull.” Bull was defined as “the opposite of cow.” Curious, I looked up “cow.” It was defined as “the opposite of bull.” Nothing about both terms referred to bovines, gender or any other defining description. Just that bull and cow are each other’s opposites.
At the boot camp—designed to cover the foundation, use cases and legal considerations to separate the value of AI technology from “the noise”—I learned that “machine learning” is “not expert systems,” and “expert systems” is “not machine learning.” How is this any more helpful than my third grade dictionary? Continue reading