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Hopefully Mycroft (or similar open-source alternatives) can provide the benefits without all the privacy / behavioral modification downsides. But I fear open s
by siegecraft 9y ago
Hopefully Mycroft (or similar open-source alternatives) can provide the benefits without all the privacy / behavioral modification downsides. But I fear open source products like this will always languish behind commercial offerings. Makes me think that the democratization of AI is very important in this regard (you shouldn't have to sell your soul to get good speech recognition, etc).
- guelo 9y agoThere's never going to be a democratization of AI without a democratization of the data. But the data itself comes from privacy violating surveillance so I don't think we really want democratization of data.
- siegecraft 9y agoYou could share the pre-trained models that take tons and tons of data and compute time to generate? The models themselves are abstract enough to be considered anonymous, by their very nature.. I think.
- xapata 9y agoTake a look at the literature on de-anonymization. It's easier than you might think.
- swsieber 9y agoDe-anonymization of data or of trained neural-nets? I've read somewhere that you can sort of 'squash' a trained net down into a simpler version for performance benefits - the caveat being that it can't do any more learning. I would think that'd make it harder to de-anonymize.
- xapata 9y agoI'm confident that in 20 years we'll have a very different conception of privacy. Certainly, one of the worst privacy outcomes would be if government had a monopoly on ubiquitous surveillance. Already I don't expect to be anonymous in any public location. Given a public enough lifestyle and enough acquaintances, the likelihood of someone recognizing you anywhere on the globe or in a random pub is non-negligible.
- chadgeidel 9y agoI agree that we will have a different conception of privacy. I'm hopeful (but not particularly optimistic) that we can have something like David Brin's "Transparent Society" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society).
- xapata 9y agoI like that term "sousveillance". It's tough to communicate the concept with phrases when folks tend to skim rather than read carefully.
- lowglow 9y agoCompletely this. The companies talking about "democratization of AI" means "yeah, come use the models we built" but the data is the real source a democratization of AI should be focusing on. That's where the source of power is.
- qznc 9y agoMycroft seems to rely on Google for text-to-speech. Open-Source TtS works ok (though inferior), but StT does not really exist.
- qznc 9y agoBest (only) open source solution available seems to be pocketsphinx. On a quick try, it was awful.