[OSM-talk] New mailing list about machine learning and OSM
Christoph Hormann
osm at imagico.de
Thu Jun 27 12:28:22 UTC 2019
On Thursday 27 June 2019, Felix Delattre via talk wrote:
>
> Until this moment the conversation has been pretty much polemic from
> people either hyping or hating these new techniques of programming
> with automated statistics.
No problem with creating a new thematic mailing list here but the above
is somewhat insulting to those who have in the past discussed bot
mapping in OSM on a serious level.
The impression i have is that there are a few people discussing the
matter on a principal level (usually from a sociological,
epistemological, ethical or generally philosophical standpoint) and
practical users and developers of such techniques - and almost zero in
depth communication between these domains.
Could you by the way explain the term "automated statistics" - i had not
heard this before and a quick search returns a lot of uses of this term
in the context of database systems, which i however have the impression
is not what you are talking about. Most terms in this field are
politically connotated - "artificial intelligence" implying a
similarity to human intelligence, "machine learning" implying a
similarity to human learning processes.
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Christoph Hormann
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