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What does Dropbox use machine learning for?
by tokenizerrr 10y ago
What does Dropbox use machine learning for?
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- bradneuberg 10y agoSee my reply to dnt404 for two examples. We have nearly an exabyte of data at Dropbox ( https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastructure/ https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastr... ); there's lots of interesting ML things we can do with that, whether its searching, suggestions, etc.
- mattmanser 10y agoYou have an exabyte of other peoples private data that you're mining and essentially exporting to other files? Am i misunderstanding or are you admitting to severely abusing your users trust?
- bradneuberg 10y agoSee my original parent comment about not touching user data for privacy reasons :)
- wbeckler 10y agoHe says they don't use user data without explicit permission and they generate the training data using "turking," which means paying people to classify things manually.