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Aids Effort To Analyze Galaxies 40   AI Astronomer Aids Effort
To Analyze Galaxies  Comments Filter:   • better than humans?
(Score:4, Interesting)      by samwise098 (1463055) on Wednesday
June 09, 2010 @04:07PM (#32515426)     I wonder how this program
compares to a human doing the same job If given the same
"training" I wonder how many humans would get a 90% agreement
rate looking at the same data.     • Re: (Score:1, Redundant)
Well exactly. This isn't so much an "AI" as it is a script that
has output depending on its input.        Essentially, any
"errors" the computer makes would be an issue with setting up a
debugger and seeing why it chose that selection. Then it falls
into two categories: It spotted things humans missed when
classifying or it has faulty programming that is creating false
positives or missing data.        I'd hardly consider that "AI".
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