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The Applied Machine Learning group at Facebook

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Re: The Applied Machine Learning group at Facebook

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They're moving some of the work to the client. Faster response and save on servers? “By running complex neural nets on the phone, you’re putting AI in the hands of everybody,”

That's where we're going now then? My hardware is used to run your code for your benefit, the scraps of which I can only hope to see should I be so blessed by the gods at Facebook?

Re: The Applied Machine Learning group at Facebook

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post #6
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They're moving some of the work to the client. Faster response and save on servers? “By running complex neural nets on the phone, you’re putting AI in the hands of everybody,”

That's where we're going now then? My hardware is used to run your code for your benefit, the scraps of which I can only hope to see should I be so blessed by the gods at Facebook?

Yes.

Re: The Applied Machine Learning group at Facebook

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They're moving some of the work to the client. Faster response and save on servers? “By running complex neural nets on the phone, you’re putting AI in the hands of everybody,”

That's where we're going now then? My hardware is used to run your code for your benefit, the scraps of which I can only hope to see should I be so blessed by the gods at Facebook?

It's not like they're running Seti@home on your phone. Presumably you're on Facebook for your own value. The micro energy cost st the individual user will be a rounding error but for Facebook and it's infrastructure it could be a huge savings and should deliver better user experience. Seems smart to me.

Re: The Applied Machine Learning group at Facebook

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They're moving some of the work to the client. Faster response and save on servers? “By running complex neural nets on the phone, you’re putting AI in the hands of everybody,”

They finally found something more obnoxious than downloading 2 megs of JS with another three seconds to parse/compile/preprocess css so that they can render two paragraphs of text.

Honestly outdoing that level of unnecessary client pushing nonsense is really an achievement.

Re: The Applied Machine Learning group at Facebook

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post #6
post #2

They're moving some of the work to the client. Faster response and save on servers? “By running complex neural nets on the phone, you’re putting AI in the hands of everybody,”

That's where we're going now then? My hardware is used to run your code for your benefit, the scraps of which I can only hope to see should I be so blessed by the gods at Facebook?

Yes, it is also your data they train their AI on. For free.

What you get back is more relevant ads err content err you stay longer attached to the ad screen err to your phone.

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