Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by rmason » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 3:50 AM UTC

Facebook open-sources Detectron
research.fb.com

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by newscracker » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:16 AM UTC

This looks amazing from the computing point of view (and is an achievement of sorts), yet the confidence percentages are lower than what an average human might be able to solve for (like in the case of CAPTCHA tests).

Meanwhile, I wonder about the human costs if systems like these are adopted for purposes where they may be ill suited for, especially cases where their confidence scores are ignored (or mistakenly assumed to be 100% even when they're lower). Anyone have reading material on this?

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by drdrey » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:19 AM UTC

> Beyond research, a number of Facebook teams use this platform to train custom models for a variety of applications including augmented reality and community integrity.

Any idea what they mean by "community integrity"?

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by xiphias » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:20 AM UTC

I'm happy that tech companies are open sourcing basic research all the time, and thinking a lot about what would have happened if large pharmacy companies did the same thing. I'm just hopeful that with new biotech companies the science behind curing people will get faster as well.

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by readams » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:20 AM UTC

drdrey wrote: post #3

> Beyond research, a number of Facebook teams use this platform to train custom models for a variety of applications including augmented reality and community integrity. Any idea what they mean by "community integrity"?

detecting porn, presumably.

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by evmar » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:38 AM UTC

Also noteworthy: the Apache 2 license, which includes a patent grant (unlike the previous Facebook licenses that have caused concern in the past).

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by megous » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:42 AM UTC

So is this the end of Google captchas asking for where the car/sign/whatever is? Will there be a final battle of AIs, where they will kill each other, and the unfettered access to websites over VPN/tor wins and laughs the last laugh?

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by schrep » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:45 AM UTC

megous wrote: post #7

So is this the end of Google captchas asking for where the car/sign/whatever is? Will there be a final battle of AIs, where they will kill each other, and the unfettered access to websites over VPN/tor wins and laughs the last laugh?

This is some of the most advanced work out there - but CV is not “solved” most vision systems only can label about 1k categories of objects. So capatchas can still be easiy constructed that would fool these systems. Part of why it is exciting to get this out there others can help us improve it.

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by dokument » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:46 AM UTC

megous wrote: post #7

So is this the end of Google captchas asking for where the car/sign/whatever is? Will there be a final battle of AIs, where they will kill each other, and the unfettered access to websites over VPN/tor wins and laughs the last laugh?

Amazon will have a new captcha asking how many boxes of cheeze-itz this person is holding on their way out of a store.

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:49 AM UTC

drdrey wrote: post #3

> Beyond research, a number of Facebook teams use this platform to train custom models for a variety of applications including augmented reality and community integrity. Any idea what they mean by "community integrity"?

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