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Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

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Re: Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

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Post by pesenti »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #53
pesenti wrote: post #39

I support Facebook AI. The actual news is that we are releasing an extensive egocentric dataset with associated tasks for the research community. Collecting such dataset in a private and responsible way is a significant challenge. Happy to answer any questions. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/teaching-ai-to-perceive-the-wor...

What are you all doing to allow those of us that don’t want to be a part of your utopia to opt out?

I encourage you to read the details of the news, in particular how the data was collected with full consent from all (something that most research datasets don’t do well). It doesn’t answer your question directly but gives you an idea on how we think about these issues. AI-powered wearables will have stringent privacy guarantees, both for the wearer and the people around.

Re: Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

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Post by sneak »

ianlevesque wrote: post #60
sneak wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In one generation in the US we went as a whole society from most private p2p conversations not being logged and monitored and recorded by the government, to most private p2p conversations not only being logged and monitored and recorded, but available to the state at any time without probable cause or a warrant (FISA Amendments Act). iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Instagram: all of these are stored on…

WhatsApp just fixed that by encrypting its backups too. https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-turn-on-and-tu...

Is it opt-in? If so that means ~0% of people will be using it, so all your chats will still be backed up non-e2e by the other side of every conversation.

Re: Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

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Post by jorpal »

istorical wrote: post #48
hetspookjee wrote: post #37

Sometimes I dream of a Facebook machine; e.g. the eerily creepy recommender for your next best action, but than with an objective function not to optimise the recommenders revenue (by being as effective ad seller as possible) but rather changing the objective function to optimise for health, wellbeing and happiness. Now surely it is far from trivial to define these, but atleast you can make a start somewhere: - You c…

I find it absolutely painful that our recommender ML based content discovery streams like YouTube and Tiktok and Instagram don't have multiple 'hats' you can put on and take off, in the sense of saying 'hey TikTok, I'm feeling frisky, feel free to send me those thirst trap videos now', but then 30 minutes later you can say 'OK TikTok, I know I watched a bunch of those dancing videos, but can you send me the education…

Anyone remember StumbleUpon? You could easily edit your interests and get different types of content. It was the pinnacle.

Re: Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

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Post by rapnie »

pesenti wrote: post #61
Hnrobert42 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you all doing to allow those of us that don’t want to be a part of your utopia to opt out?

I encourage you to read the details of the news, in particular how the data was collected with full consent from all (something that most research datasets don’t do well). It doesn’t answer your question directly but gives you an idea on how we think about these issues. AI-powered wearables will have stringent privacy guarantees, both for the wearer and the people around.

> I support Facebook AI.

As VP that doesn't suprise me. The problem is trust, and it is continuously eroding further and further the more we get to know how your company operates.

Re: Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

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Post by _Understated_ »

ianlevesque wrote: post #60
sneak wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In one generation in the US we went as a whole society from most private p2p conversations not being logged and monitored and recorded by the government, to most private p2p conversations not only being logged and monitored and recorded, but available to the state at any time without probable cause or a warrant (FISA Amendments Act). iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Instagram: all of these are stored on…

WhatsApp just fixed that by encrypting its backups too. https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-turn-on-and-tu...

It's Facebook! How can you trust them?

If you honestly believe them then I've got a bridge you might wanna take a look at...

Re: Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

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Post by picardythird »

pesenti wrote: post #61
Hnrobert42 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you all doing to allow those of us that don’t want to be a part of your utopia to opt out?

I encourage you to read the details of the news, in particular how the data was collected with full consent from all (something that most research datasets don’t do well). It doesn’t answer your question directly but gives you an idea on how we think about these issues. AI-powered wearables will have stringent privacy guarantees, both for the wearer and the people around.

One of the features outlined in the article for this post was for the glasses to remember things that other people said. How would such other people who don't want to be recorded for these purposes opt out?

Re: Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

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Post by picardythird »

blackoil wrote: post #16
mgreb wrote: post #12

Wait, are such devices even legal? Looks like walking spy-cam to me. I want to know if someone records video/takes picture of me. With this glasses you can`t tell if you are being filmed.

Is it illegal to shoot videos in public place without permission of all present ? Private places may have their own rules. Also this is R&D, long way before such questions matter.

Don't you think answering these questions should guide the R&D?
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