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lottin on May 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to F...

Somebody should do a cost-benefit analysis of all this machine learning business. For instance, how much did this project cost and what did they get in return? I'm not suggesting it's not worth it, just curious to know how the numbers turn out.

rch on May 11, 2017 | [–]

Also, IIRC early neural net research covered this approach with Hannibal & Attila decades ago.

Edit: I guess there are some differences -- I think this is what I was remembering:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/AIM-1091.pdf

...but maybe there was further work that is more closely related.

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