Wow. With Hinton at Google and LeCun at Facebook, industry has definitely been pulling some big names away from academia.
Really changes the phrase 'those who can't do teach'.
Facebook's AI lab
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#42In the eyes of Facebook, we are all undressed. Now it will be like they are throwing in a free colonoscopy while they're at it.
I bet the guys over at Fort Meade are beside themselves with happiness over this :-)
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> 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.
The FB data is being given to them freely by their users
Define: freely
I think Moxie Marlinespike's talk at Defcon 18 (2010) was a really good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
He talks about how we do not really have a free choice when it comes to things like having a Facebook account or having a mobile phone. Namely due to the network effect, you don't really have a choice if you want to be a normal member of society.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
The FB data is being given to them freely by their users
Define: freely I think Moxie Marlinespike's talk at Defcon 18 (2010) was a really good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk He talks about how we do not really have a free choice when it comes to things like having a Facebook account or having a mobile phone. Namely due to the network effect, you don't really have a choice if you want to be a normal member of society.
How is any of that Facebooks fault?
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> 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.
The FB data is being given to them freely by their users
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#46When 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?
Perhaps they want to understand what users mean too.
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#47Am 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…
The announcement of an organization who's revenue is based on advertising doing research into AI deeply scares me. Take a look at this MIT study . Each day our corporation based government takes a step closer to 1984 and each day people become more and more apathetic and quick to change the subject at the first sign of the conversation. http://web.mit.edu/people/amliu/Papers/PentlandLiu_NeuralCom...
Umm what do you think google's revenue is based on?
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#48The 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.
Value of Facebook consists of two things, you and your data. It is not good for long term strategy of Facebook to hurt either. Here are some things where smart AI could help: 1. Better filtering of spam bots. 2. Better filtering of ads that would significantly improve ad quality. 3. Smart assistant that learns your habits and makes smart suggestions such as: which events to attend, your writing style, and filters imm…
The "which events to attend" thing is already up and running
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#49When 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?
And what makes you think Google can't or won't do the same? Their latest aggressive push of Google+ everywhere including the forced Youtube integration indicates that they have the capability or have been doing exactly what you suggest.
Not to mention the huge amounts of data they collect through searches and Gmail that they already have been using to tailor ads to each visitor.
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#50Wow. With Hinton at Google and LeCun at Facebook, industry has definitely been pulling some big names away from academia.
Really changes the phrase 'those who can't do teach'.
That sassy phrase (Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.) is irritating to me. Now I'm not casting judgement on anybody who _does_ find it entertaining, or useful, but for what it's worth, the _original_ phrase is:
Those who know, do; those who understand, teach.
-Aristotle.