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Next up: people start getting into Zuckerberg’s home by holding up a life size picture of Andrea’s face.
Hopefully that's a sufficient well-known trick to be aware of, given its appearance in 1997's "Fifth Element": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nah_3vO0uhM -- Matthieu Kassovitz as the low-tech robber trying to trick the hi-tech security system.
If you're interested, you can recreate the work he did in a fraction of the time. https://home-assistant.io/ It's not voice centric like 'jarvis' would be, but it bridges most of the existing smart devices that exist right now and let's you do a plethora of many more things than 'jarvis' does. You can for example add gps tracking to your phone and have it control your thermostat for when you're close to home, or turn…
Edit: Tried the demo, it does look pretty sleek admittedly.
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95% of the time, good software creation is really just construction, not engineering. There are great paradigms and solutions to the majority of problems. There's room for design and UX, but you shouldn't need to custom engineer the walls out of carbon fiber or some aerospace composites unless you're launching the house to Mars. The engineering aspect really only comes into play when no components meet your needs. Th…
Would strongly disagree with this. For me a well designed house is actually, you know, about the design. And whilst the construction is important due to standards it is largely irrelevant. The analogy to software is apt. Well designed, well architected software is so important. Anyone can write syntactically proper code. Far harder to design a system that has just the right amount of extensibility, performance, elega…
On top of that, this would give Zuckerberg so much insight into so many things - the pain faced by developers, the pain faced by the users, how users would want to use AI products, why developers are not able to build the products users want. And this plays well into his strengths as a CEO. There aren't many (any?) big company CEOs who can do this.
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No kidding. I find it impressive both that he put aside (not found , this had to be a very deliberate decision given the demands on his time) 100 hours to do this, AND that he got all of it done in 100 hours. Is there anything written about his personal schedule/habits? When does he go to sleep at night? When does he wake up? What kind of hours does he work? I mean really, he has a kid, is CEO of a huge company, exer…
Not to pile on, but you might be interested to know that Zuckerberg also spent the time to learn Mandarin.
Apart from the whole business luminary/billionaire thing, I think Zuck is a pretty cool and insightful guy. I like both the idea of having a "challenge", as well as the specific ones he's done: running, meeting a new person each day, learning Mandarin, doing a cool side project with his house. (I get to hear about a lot of this as one of my best friends works as fb)
At the risk of sounding a little bit self-aggrandizing, I often think about how similar the two of us are, not because I'm particularly special, but just that he's a torch-carrier for guys like me. I'm a month apart from Zuck in age, I'm about to get married to a woman with a serious career, and Zuck and I both grew up in the eastern US (I'm from Chicago). I had a Chinese girlfriend growing up. My family wasn't rich but we also weren't poor. I worked at Microsoft out of college, something Zuck said he might've done if he didn't found facebook.
He's pretty talented though. I definitely didn't create wirehog. I also didn't go to Exeter or have the quality of education he did, either at Exeter, or later at Harvard. I have to wonder how much that stuff influenced his later life, and whether I should try to get my kids into those places.
Controversies aside, I think he's doing an admirable job of casting the tech industry in a positive light, with his positions on taking time off from work, and trying to hire inclusively. I don't use facebook as I have genuine concerns about privacy, but I think he's a real idealist who thinks making the world more "open and connected" is a genuinely good thing. I'd love to meet him some day.
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That would just follow a singular simple algorithm, not really intelligence in any sense.
In the general programming industry over the last several decades, "artificial intelligence" has also applied to simple decision-making algorithms, even as simple as playing checkers. Arthur Samuel [1] was renowned for his work on a checkers AI circa 1959. [1]: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/11/node3.html
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Have a read of this; http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu... It's a very long read, but it will give you a much better overview of AI and the different "calibres" than I could possibly try to in a HN comment. What Mark has used here is "Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)", the first of three levels/calibres of AI. Level 2 is "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)", otherwise known as "Human…
sigh this is why I don't usually get involved in arguments about whether something is considered AI or not; it just devolves into people trying to define and redefine what the word 'AI' even means. Final word: I follow this stuff closely and read the research articles, and what we currently have is really great, but it's still just pulling the wool over your eyes. These techniques and algorithms trick you into thinki…
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Facile, needlessly cynical, and with zero evidence. I don't like FB or Zuckerberg, but what I read was a good write up of a fun project done well.
Oh come on, it was clearly both. Try to tell us this excerpt is not an advertisement for the facebook SDK: > I'd learn a lot about the state of AI this year, but I didn't realize I would also learn so much about what it's like to be an engineer at Facebook. And it's impressive. > My experience of ramping up in the Facebook codebase is probably pretty similar to what most new engineers here go through. I was consisten…
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In my parents generation, and the generation that came after them (the one my siblings belong to, Gen X), I still think this differentiation between concepts of fictional AI were present. Consider for example the computer systems in Star Trek, and especially The Next Generation, and contrast how they worked with how Commander Data was depicted. The computer systems on Star Trek can be programmed using natural languag…
Pardon my nerding out, but I think the difference between the computer system and Data was the degree of self-determination given to each system. When the holodeck was instructed to create an opponent capable of defeating Data, it created an sentient Moriarty AI. The computer system was fully capable of being a full AI, it was just never instructed to.