CMU Database Group
Published on Sep 9, 2017
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Andy Pavlo (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/)
15-445/645 Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2017)
Carnegie Mellon University

When data scientist Joel Grus wrote an article on using machine learning to solve the "fizzbuzz" problem last year, most people saw it as an exercise in comedy, perhaps with a warning about the inappropriate use of AI. But we saw a deeper lesson. Certainly, you don’t need AI to solve fizzbuzz, so long as someone tells you the algorithm underlying the problem. But suppose you discover a seemingly random pattern like fizzbuzz output in nature? Patterns like that exist throughout real life, and no one gives us the algorithm. Machine learning solves such problems.