Why industry players are so bad with AI naming conventions?

If someone were to ask you is MxNet a framework or a library, what would be your answer? It depends. Here is why. On GitHub, it is called a deep learning framework but on the MxNet website, it is called “Library for Deep Learning. We can get into a discussion on what defines a framework and what is a library. But this is not the point. The problem is people are not consistent with terminology and it is creating a lot of confusion.

If you are not convinced, let’s look at another example. Is CNTK a framework or a toolkit? In the early days, people are calling CNTK a framework. Now, Microsoft is calling it a toolkit. Read More...