The Deep Mind of Demis Hassabis
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The Deep Mind of Demis Hassabis
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#2The banner is really frustrating. It says "Part 4" and has four dots, but I can't click the dots to go back to Part 1 and there aren't any header links to Part 1... is there even a Part 1 to go to?
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#3The banner is really frustrating. It says "Part 4" and has four dots, but I can't click the dots to go back to Part 1 and there aren't any header links to Part 1... is there even a Part 1 to go to?
parts 1-3 linked at bottom of the post.
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#4I do not have a GPS, most of my friends do. I notice something with everyone who has a GPS when I am with them: they cannot find their way back. They have to use the tool again.
Why am I saying this? I do not know whether these technologies are making people smarter or less smart. It certainly helps to have something that can help do the tasks you just would not be able to do on your own without much toiling, however I think a lot about the day when your AI enabled digital assistant makes every single decision for you.
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#5I do not have a GPS, most of my friends do. I notice something with everyone who has a GPS when I am with them: they cannot find their way back. They have to use the tool again. Why am I saying this? I do not know whether these technologies are making people smarter or less smart. It certainly helps to have something that can help do the tasks you just would not be able to do on your own without much toiling, however…
It's a perception problem. GPS is an artificial organ that happens to reside outside of your brain at this stage of evolution. Most people have to use vision as well, they cannot just use their old trusty sense of smell to get around. So what it's biological?
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#6He is yet to produce something useful. Why celebrate him now? Google PR?
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#7He is yet to produce something useful. Why celebrate him now? Google PR?
That was also my feeling, and i have it pretty much every time i hear about "deep learning" : it's all PR and people trying to get as much funding as they can while the trend is hot. I have a suscipicion that it will all collapse like a bubble once again.
The only thing that really impressed me so far was that ibm computer playing jeopardy, but the fact that no other application became public after all this years make me wonder if once again all people built was a manually tuned specialized system.
Note : i'm not in the field so my feelings are just based on the communication around the subject and decades of claims about building an intelligent algorithm with no success.
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#8This article is part 4 of a series by Steven Levy about Google research. I rather like Levy's writing so I wanted to find parts 1, 2, 3 as well.
The navigation to earlier parts of the series seems broken to me (Iceweasel/Debian Sid/noscript set to allow page) so I backed up to the front page and found the links...
Part 1
https://medium.com/backchannel/how-google-search-dealt-with-...
Part 2
https://medium.com/backchannel/googles-secret-study-to-find-...
Part 3
https://medium.com/backchannel/google-search-will-be-your-ne...
Part 4
https://medium.com/backchannel/the-deep-mind-of-demis-hassab...
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#9I do not have a GPS, most of my friends do. I notice something with everyone who has a GPS when I am with them: they cannot find their way back. They have to use the tool again. Why am I saying this? I do not know whether these technologies are making people smarter or less smart. It certainly helps to have something that can help do the tasks you just would not be able to do on your own without much toiling, however…
I find the complete opposite personally, in that GPS has given me a better appreciation for my surroundings and proximity. Maybe I just look at maps too much?
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#10He is yet to produce something useful. Why celebrate him now? Google PR?
That was also my feeling, and i have it pretty much every time i hear about "deep learning" : it's all PR and people trying to get as much funding as they can while the trend is hot. I have a suscipicion that it will all collapse like a bubble once again. The only thing that really impressed me so far was that ibm computer playing jeopardy, but the fact that no other application became public after all this years mak…
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