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But Facebook? They could create a million virtual DanBCs and then A/B test something against them, and then present me with the irresistible ad, perfectly pitched to draw me in?
Star power at NIPS: "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, CTO Michael Schroepfer and I are at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference in Lake Tahoe today. Mark will announce the news during his presentation at the NIPS Workshop on Deep Learning later today." It seems Zuckerberg will have an apres-ski Q&A, and be in a panel discussion at day's end ( https://sites.google.com/site/deeplearningworkshopnips2013/s...…
At NIPS now. There have been rumors going around that Zuckerberg might have just been interested in attending, giving a casual Q&A, not announcing anything like this - but with this announcement, I foresee them having to take down all of the dividers in Harveys ;)
When Google announces AI research it makes sense because self driving cars and trying to understand what a user means by typing stuff in a search box. But Facebook? They could create a million virtual DanBCs and then A/B test something against them, and then present me with the irresistible ad, perfectly pitched to draw me in?
Microsoft Research, for example, doesn't restrict itself to the domain of features for Windows, Office, or XBox. Instead, you get giant touchscreens (which you could say inspired Windows 8's unified tablet-PC approach, but didn't really) and PhotoDNA.
Likewise, I'd expect the things coming out of a Facebook AI Lab to be more of the "new ideas that could replace our entire business model when this one runs dry" than "better ways to advertise." Personal, private social agents that live in the cloud and continuously execute on your goals without requiring direct instruction, say (I'm sure there's a speculative-fiction name for these, but all that comes to mind is "NetNavis.")
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.
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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
Am I the only one who is skeptical about this announcement? I am sure the amount of data Facebook has will be huge asset to any sort of AI development, but precisely because of the amount of data and the kinds of data they have, it's just scary what this could be used for... AI that has personal information of 500M+ people, using it to manipulate people...(first to click on advertisements, and then much more). In the…
http://web.mit.edu/people/amliu/Papers/PentlandLiu_NeuralCom...
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.
How many people are they teaching in person these days?
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.
>> What are your thoughts with regard to the amount of personal information that Facebook possesses? "Fucking disgusting" >> Regardless of whether they are good or evil, what do you think the potential implications are? Less privacy, more data in the hands of governments, more police state.
This is huge. LeCun is one of the leading AI experts in the world. With resources of Facebook I expect great things. I also see this as a technology bet by Facebook on long term strategy . I own Facebook stock, so I might be biased.