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Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by yeukhon » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 6:48 PM UTC

turing wrote: post #3

Wow. With Hinton at Google and LeCun at Facebook, industry has definitely been pulling some big names away from academia.

I beg to differ. They still publish papers and big names in academia are often consultants or receiving grants from private industry. And according to LeCun he will remain as professor at NYU and run his research lab from NYU. He will serve as director and lead researcher.

Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by lucb1e » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 6:57 PM UTC

I'm not sure what I should think of this. What are your thoughts with regard to the amount of personal information that Facebook possesses? Regardless of whether they are good or evil, what do you think the potential implications are? I'm curious about HN's thoughts.

Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by X4 » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 6:59 PM UTC

Is any of the conference videos available online, or is that only for paying customers?

Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by ezioamf » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

Google has won the search indexing game. Who will win the next level when robots understands the content?

Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by demonicus » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 7:02 PM UTC

"We were foolish to think Google was the entity that would become Skynet, when it was Facebook all along." - John Connor

Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by fat0wl » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 7:07 PM UTC

yeukhon wrote: post #11

turing wrote: post #3

Wow. With Hinton at Google and LeCun at Facebook, industry has definitely been pulling some big names away from academia.

I beg to differ. They still publish papers and big names in academia are often consultants or receiving grants from private industry. And according to LeCun he will remain as professor at NYU and run his research lab from NYU. He will serve as director and lead researcher.

Oh man that guy was my machine learning professor at NYU :) Sparked my interested in Lisp, but now I seem to recall that he wrote all the problem examples in his own language.... Lush. Even so, all my knowledge of Lisp syntax and neural nets stems from his bad-ass lectures

Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by loceng » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 7:08 PM UTC

This is all about finding patterns for businesses to better target and sell to people. Valuable information is likely NOT going to reach or become usable by say government organizations or other organizations that are trying to problem solve big problems - at least not be affordable, because they'll be competing with for-profit businesses for bidding on access those users.

Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by aioprisan » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 7:12 PM UTC

I took LeCun's class in undergrad at NYU and it definitely wasn't easy. He's a fantastic speaker, definitely made it more enjoyable.

Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by mikeg8 » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 7:13 PM UTC

swalsh wrote: post #10

The AI facebook has today is already freaky to me at times... while I love any new advancement in AI, these advancements will probably not be used in my interests.

Completely agreed. Not looking that forward to this.

Re: Facebook's AI lab

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Post by iLoch » Mon, Dec 09, 2013, 7:15 PM UTC

msoad wrote: post #9

dhammack wrote: post #7

Can you imagine the datasets FB has to work with? Statuses, pictures, locations, social graphs. It's incredible. It's hard to blame LeCun/Hinton/Ng for moving towards industry with data like that. I'd bet that the only place with more data than FB/Google is our good friends at the NSA.

My friend used to work at NSA research. He said they don't have much ready to use data yet

Nice try, NSA.