Google I/O Developer Keynote [video] • Hacker News Board

Re: Google I/O Developer Keynote [video]

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Post by Findus23 » Tue, May 07, 2019, 8:57 PM UTC

The on-device Machine Learning sounds pretty amazing. Does anyone know if this will be a part of AOSP or be a closed-source extension (like digital wellbeing)?

Re: Google I/O Developer Keynote [video]

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Post by jayd16 » Tue, May 07, 2019, 9:01 PM UTC

novok wrote: post #17

jayd16 wrote: post #11

As models start fitting on devices, what keeps it a competitive advantage? Are specific models patentable? Copyrightable? What's stopping Apple or a foreign company from shipping these models themselves?

Creating & improving that model is the competitive advantage. It's like saying what is the competitive advantage of compiled executables that run on customer devices. I estimate it's copywriteable.

But any would be copy-cat could simply push out the new model a day later.

I'm also struggling with whether such a model should fall under copyright. Models would naturally converge.

Re: Google I/O Developer Keynote [video]

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Post by pier25 » Tue, May 07, 2019, 9:08 PM UTC

On device speech recognition is pretty great, but as a whole the keynote was pretty conservative. Probably because they promised too much stuff in previous years that either wasn't released or quickly failed.