Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
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#2I manage a deep learning team but I have some reservations about the technology. IMO deep learning is best for optimizing back end systems and not good for systems that ‘touch’ people: deciding to loan money, automated sentencing of criminals, targeted marketing from personal information, etc.
For me, the problems are lack of explainability and possible bias.
There are many great applications for deep learning and AI in general but some guard rails must be in place for public good.
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#3I manage a deep learning team but I have some reservations about the technology. IMO deep learning is best for optimizing back end systems and not good for systems that ‘touch’ people: deciding to loan money, automated sentencing of criminals, targeted marketing from personal information, etc. For me, the problems are lack of explainability and possible bias. There are many great applications for deep learning and AI…
These systems will be the perfect "faceless bureaucracy". Nobody knows exactly why they are doing what they do and can't be held responsible but the people who deployed them will get the profits.
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#4Deep Learning could in fact enable the next Deep State. Not that I love repurposing madness of today.
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#5> "That’s why the adjective that so many people are affixing to all of these new capabilities to convey their awesome power is “deep.”"
One of the best pieces of academic marketing was calling this set of techniques "deep" learning. The word is so rich with connotations, it immediately brings to mind all the synonyms: profound, complex, arcane, etc. It makes people ascribe far more complexity to the system than it actually has.
When in reality, it's just a "massively multi-layered and multi-stage" network. But that doesn't sound nearly as profound, and doesn't allow journalists to spin wild tales.
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#6> "That’s why the adjective that so many people are affixing to all of these new capabilities to convey their awesome power is “deep.”" One of the best pieces of academic marketing was calling this set of techniques "deep" learning. The word is so rich with connotations, it immediately brings to mind all the synonyms: profound, complex, arcane, etc. It makes people ascribe far more complexity to the system than it ac…
People will nearly always opt for the language that conveys the most meaning, even if doing so outstrips the underlying phenomena being named, since the point of language is to convey meaning
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#7Deep Learning could in fact enable the next Deep State. Not that I love repurposing madness of today.
What does “the next Deep State” even mean? What do the words “deep state” even mean in this context?
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#8Shoshana Zuboff is one of those people that make me upset when I discover them. Why didn't I hear about them and their books books much earlier? Is it only because she is not marketing her books well enough?
The Age of the Smart Machine (1988) is truly visionary and well written.
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I'm currently reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
The book has well developed concepts like 'behavioral surplus and 'instrumentarianism'. There are also clever terms like 'radical indifference', 'observation without witness', 'equivalence without equality'. They are just plain insightful. I can instantly recognize them as something I could not conceptualize before.
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#9I've recently realized how trivial is to detect suspicious activities on real-time video feeds just by tracking human poses, and how this is an almost completely solved problem now (basically it can count on incremental improvement of accuracy of models that are used inside). I have doubts this would in any way "democratize AI", but instead might end up as a powerful weapon of oppression. No wonder most of the papers on this topic originate from China.
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#10if surveillance capitalism was so successful, you would expect the overall ad spending to have spiked recently , since people claim to have found the holy grail that turns ads directly into profits. But it hasn't.