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TensorFlow democratizes the power of deep learning I won't say this kind of innovation is bad, per se, or should be stopped. But the blitheness with which the
by kafkaesq 10y ago
TensorFlow democratizes the power of deep learning
I won't say this kind of innovation is bad, per se, or should be stopped. But the blitheness with which the article sidesteps the collateral damage that will necessarily come of this brave new era of efficiency and progress -- as if there was nothing more to this story than an unemployed engineer helping out Mom and Pop -- really is quite breathtaking.
"Democratized unemployment, and for many older blue-collar workers in years to come, a nearly inescapable sense of hopelessness and despair" is what we might want to call it.
- dmix 10y agoThis is a technical post on a Google blog for a software library highlighting a use-case written by a "Developer Advocate" for developers to read... this isn't a NYTimes human interest piece about a new technology written by a journalist for average humans to read. Regardless of the non-relevant nature of the context, the HN crowd (the target audience) is well aware of the side effects of technological progress. Similarly, we don't expect every blog post by security researchers highlighting the latest software exploit to include blurbs about the societal implications of vulnerabilities on privacy. There's a time and place for that.
- kafkaesq 10y agoActually, the whole point of the blog post was that it was a marketing piece -- not a dry research article.