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Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research

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Re: Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research

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I don't see anything about the rights of video owners? Have people (inadvertently) licensed their content to be used in this way?

I wish they'd addressed that too.

I'd guess the reasoning is, because it's a list of public URLs, there's no expectation of privacy.

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I don't see anything about the rights of video owners? Have people (inadvertently) licensed their content to be used in this way?

I wish they'd addressed that too. I'd guess the reasoning is, because it's a list of public URLs, there's no expectation of privacy.

Probably you are right. However, I am wondering how many of those videos will be deleted by owners, Google or just blocked in "some" countries a year from now. They could have published it separately to avoid this.

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Reproducing the intelligence of an insect is incredibly more difficult than following a list of rules for a board game. Like I said, the A.I we have today cannot even simulate the brain of a cockroach. In fact we don't even fully understand their brains, how they work and whether or not they even have consciousness. When we do figure it out perhaps we can start building real A.I systems, but until then programs beati…

That's just the same old phenomenon that as soon as AI does something outstanding, people redefine the meaning of intelligence to exclude it. I'd say that in many of these cases, people expect "true" intelligence to come with conscience. But when some AI passes any test for consciousness you can throw at it, I'm sure there'll be people saying "it's not consciousness, it's just (perfectly) simulation consciousness". S…

No one is moving the goalposts. The problem with the current state of AI is that there's very little, if any, intelligence inherent within it. I don't consider a bunch of connected computers beating a human at a board game AI - that's just computers doing what they do best. And when we reach that point where consciousness has really been simulated, regardless of the extent, then we will have achieved a milestone in real AI that we can build upon. But, until that day comes all we can do is to continue trying to reverse engineer how brains actually work and process information.

This is why it's always amusing to me whenever people call Google the future Skynet or try to enact laws for AI. We're so far away from real AI that I have my doubts we'll even get there.

Re: Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research

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Reproducing the intelligence of an insect is incredibly more difficult than following a list of rules for a board game. Like I said, the A.I we have today cannot even simulate the brain of a cockroach. In fact we don't even fully understand their brains, how they work and whether or not they even have consciousness. When we do figure it out perhaps we can start building real A.I systems, but until then programs beati…

If you think that's how AlphaGo works, you should maybe take a closer look.

There's nothing intelligent about AlphaGo.

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If you think that's how AlphaGo works, you should maybe take a closer look.

There's nothing intelligent about AlphaGo.

> There's nothing intelligent about AlphaGo.

Classic Shit HN Says material. Never change, HN. Never change.

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There's nothing intelligent about AlphaGo.

> There's nothing intelligent about AlphaGo. Classic Shit HN Says material. Never change, HN. Never change.

Perhaps you'd like to prove the intelligence exhibited by AlphaGo.

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Sounds interesting, do you guys have a blog at mashtime? What kind of hardware/software do you use for training? Tensorflow? on AWS or bare metal GPUs?

We don't have a blog yet. We're using Azure for the hardware and mainly scikit-learn for the training (we train only on metadata at the moment). Will probably start using Tensorflow soon.

Would you say Tensorflow is a good way to get started with Machine learning?

Re: Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research

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> There's nothing intelligent about AlphaGo. Classic Shit HN Says material. Never change, HN. Never change.

Perhaps you'd like to prove the intelligence exhibited by AlphaGo.

Only after you have given me a definition of intelligence which is not "what humans do"

Re: Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research

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post #37
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't have a blog yet. We're using Azure for the hardware and mainly scikit-learn for the training (we train only on metadata at the moment). Will probably start using Tensorflow soon.

Would you say Tensorflow is a good way to get started with Machine learning?

I'd say scikit-learn is a better way to get started with machine learning. Check this out, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxRvEZd3Mw
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