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How will this make the world better? I ask in earnest, as for the most part I see ML only as a tool to increase profits. Is this making the world a better place
by KDJohnBrown 6y ago
How will this make the world better? I ask in earnest, as for the most part I see ML only as a tool to increase profits. Is this making the world a better place or just increasing shareholder value?
- Jugurtha 6y agoWe've worked on railway transportation systems to reduce the number of incidents that affect quality of service at best, and endanger people and infrastructure at worst. Predicting events in other types of critical pieces of infrastructure of $10B+ that could lead to catastrophic consequences in terms of lives, devastating environmental damages, etc. We've worked on elderly care in partnership with social workers so the elderly feel less lonely by dispatching caregivers at the right time. These are the projects we've worked on off the top of my head with obvious benefits to the world. Now, imagine how fast we could have gone had we had our tooling. For the less obvious projects: we help people live more by reducing mindless, numbing, soul-crushing tasks so that humans do what humans are good at. Think, create things.