Why there are two separate channels <#C8CFFCVAB|ai> and <#C4W52CFEZ|datascience> ? Why not join them...

# datascience

[ValV]

Why there are two separate channels #ai and #datascience ? Why not join them into this channel or into #ml ?

[Thomas Legrand]

I see in every language slack channel I’m in there are the same questions 😂

[ValV]

Then it's a natural question, if different people ask it 🙂

[thomasnield]

AI != data science necessarily, although the vague overlap seems to exist. Nor does AI != machine learning, although ML is a subset of AI. This chart might be helpful:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*8DHdRYSU82AtabM3Xt--aA.png▾

[thomasnield]

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[thomasnield]

"AI" and "data science" are both buzzwords that have been corrupted via hype and exploding scope. I personally would rather not contribute to the problem by making the two inaccurately synonymous. "Machine Learning" at least has some distinction in what it does, but I would not make it synonymous with "data science" or "AI", but rather make it a subset of both domains.

[thomasnield]

And I hate to sound like a cynic, but trying to categorize and group all these domains is such an effing headache that it's probably just easier to stop and let them specialize.

[Thomas Legrand]

yet, if it is unclear to all, how to expect people to publish in the right channel ? we just have to create a “data-buzzwords-related” channel 😄

[mp]

#stats-with-computers

[thomasnield]

#nondeterministic-solves, #np-hard

[thomasnield]

Seriously, I think the P and NP thing is a huge commonality with all these domains, minus data engineering.

[thomasnield]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX40hbAHx3s&amp;t=15s▾

[thomasnield]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY41QYPI8cw▾

[ValV]

There's no data science on the diagram

[ValV]

Kotlin community does not specialize on those fields much to separate them into standalone channel

[dalexander]

I would linger in the aforementioned algorithms channel. I think it might get some traffic with advent-of-code coming up in a few weeks.

[dalexander]

Although we might have to clarify exactly what it’s about, since it seems like it would be a super-set of the AI channel and the data-science channel.