classifier
noun
clas·si·fi·er
ˈkla-sə-ˌfī(-ə)r 
1
: one that classifies
specifically
: a machine for sorting out the constituents of a substance (such as ore)
2
: a word or morpheme used with numerals or with nouns designating countable or measurable objects
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That was why the machine learning classifiers had been able to correctly ascertain the ranks of particular curves.
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Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
And our deep learning classifiers have struggled to understand enough about semantic composition—the parts of an image that give it a particular meaning—and context to make those calls successfully.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, has been advocating for a new deep learning method for image classifiers called a Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (or JEPA) that tries to create AI models with a much more robust conceptual and compositional understanding of a scene.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
The decommissioning, first noticed by Decrypt, occurred with no major fanfare and was announced through a small note added to OpenAI's official AI Classifier webpage:
As of July 20, 2023, the AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
For example, Meta chose not to build a classifier to detect minors under 13.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2023
OpenAI rolled out its own detection tool at the end of January, while Turnitin, the anti-plagiarism giant, unveiled a classifier in April.
—Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
The team used those photos and open-source image classifier files from Google to train the model and the custom camera system to sense and record trains passing.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
Before it was shut down, the AI classifier performed particularly poorly for pieces of text under 1,000 characters written in non-English languages.
—Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 25 July 2023
Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
And our deep learning classifiers have struggled to understand enough about semantic composition—the parts of an image that give it a particular meaning—and context to make those calls successfully.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, has been advocating for a new deep learning method for image classifiers called a Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (or JEPA) that tries to create AI models with a much more robust conceptual and compositional understanding of a scene.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
The decommissioning, first noticed by Decrypt, occurred with no major fanfare and was announced through a small note added to OpenAI's official AI Classifier webpage:
As of July 20, 2023, the AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
For example, Meta chose not to build a classifier to detect minors under 13.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2023
OpenAI rolled out its own detection tool at the end of January, while Turnitin, the anti-plagiarism giant, unveiled a classifier in April.
—Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
The team used those photos and open-source image classifier files from Google to train the model and the custom camera system to sense and record trains passing.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
Before it was shut down, the AI classifier performed particularly poorly for pieces of text under 1,000 characters written in non-English languages.
—Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 25 July 2023
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“Classifier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classifier. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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