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Seeing Google's approach to quantifying life's special moments in this blog post brings out the luddite in me. When we had our first child every moment we capt
by aresant 8y ago
Seeing Google's approach to quantifying life's special moments in this blog post brings out the luddite in me.
When we had our first child every moment we captured felt special.
It was awe inspiring to watch our little human encounter and respond to the world.
The big ones like the first step, the first word, the first laugh.
And the smaller ones like encounters with new friends, grandparents, first time at the beach, etc.
After we had our second it was strange to see the similar reactions.
And we realized how many of these milestone responses were innate. And predictable.
It wasn't necessarily less endearing but a little less magical as parents.
Google's approach is spot on.
And it makes me sad that life's "special moments" aren't just predictable, they're inherently quantifiable by very basic AI.
As we barrel towards an AI enabled future it's going to be bittersweet to unwravel & index the human experience.
- sharcerer 8y agoChange is always frightening.
- musage 8y ago"tattoo.... why don't you have any tattoo?!?"
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoFrequently for good reason.
- exodust 8y agoI don't really get the point you're making. The AI isn't aware of parental concerns, preferences or human behaviour specific to childhood activity. It's evaluating "interestingness" visually, after someone chooses to put the camera in front of an already interesting active area such as kids playing. The AI is not waking up and saying to itself, "initiate full power mode immediately because I detect children playing in an interesting manner". While I love new photo gadgets, the 3 hour battery life is a little disappointing. I do like the general idea though, although what were they thinking not adding a microphone? Incidentally, I wonder what machine learning would take from reading your post. Would it conclude that one sentence per paragraph is a good thing worth replicating? I hope not!
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- ShabbosGoy 8y agoThat’s the problem when most laypersons (including many in tech) talk about AI. It adds noise to what machine learning actually is today, and makes it hard to argue about the ethics of it when most people don’t know how to frame the problem.
- rossjudson 8y agoI hadn't thought about it in such personal terms. Sadly, increasingly, algorithm == fate.