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Deep learning is narrowly applicable to every domain, that's the beauty of it. It's delivering 1.1-10x efficiency improvements for a lot of common workflows, wh

by m_ke 5y ago

Deep learning is narrowly applicable to every domain, that's the beauty of it. It's delivering 1.1-10x efficiency improvements for a lot of common workflows, which might not seem that impressive but really adds up. My cousin is an MMA fighter in another country, just today he got a contract from an american agent and asked me to translate it. I was able to throw it into google translate and in under 2 seconds it produced a flawless translation of 20 pages of legalese. I have a fairly affordable Hyundai that's able to drive 80 miles on a highway without me touching the steering wheel. I built an app that uses image recognition to automate food logging, from the surveys that we did it cut down the time to log from 15minutes a day to under 2. I've worked on systems to monitor patients at risk of falling in a hospital setting. My friend built Tonal, which can track your exercise form (https://www.tonal.com/ https://www.tonal.com/) Alphafold will be a huge deal for drug discovery. I can keep going

0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> My cousin is an MMA fighter in another country, just today he got a contract from an american agent and asked me to translate it. I was able to throw it into google translate and in under 2 seconds it produced a flawless translation of 20 pages of legalese. Flawless sounds like an overstatement. I would hope that you use a professional before signing contract? That's serious stuff. > I have a fairly affordable Hyundai that's able to drive 80 miles on a highway without me touching the steering wheel. Are you referring to lane assist or OpenPilot? In both cases you need to be focused enough on the road that (IMO at least) it doesn't make that big of a difference either way. Certainly not life changing. > I built an app that uses image recognition to automate food logging, from the surveys that we did it cut down the time to log from 15minutes a day to under 2. Can it detect hot dogs? > I've worked on systems to monitor patients at risk of falling in a hospital setting. See my response wrt specialized (medical, industrial, military) settings. There's a lot of other incredible technology at work in hospitals. > My friend built Tonal, which can track your exercise form People exercised just fine before this. I'd classify Tonal as a marginal improvement, at best. I've actually found that removing technology and falling back to simple calisthenics (done properly of course) is having a much greater impact than adding more technology, for various reasons. > Alphafold will be a huge deal for drug discovery. I agree, but it falls under the category of specialized use cases. It's very exciting though.
- m_ke 5y ago
  You could make the same arguments about computers or the internet.
Jensson 5y ago
> My cousin is an MMA fighter in another country, just today he got a contract from an american agent and asked me to translate it. I was able to throw it into google translate and in under 2 seconds it produced a flawless translation of 20 pages of legalese. You do realize that todays translation services often reverses the meaning of sentences? They are useful for reading random posts where you don't care about the results, but they should never be used when you absolutely need to know the meaning of statements. What you did is akin to putting your sleeping friend into a tesla, turn on the autopilot and see the teslan leave on the road, then posting "See, the tesla drove away perfectly, AI really automated driving!". You don't even know if it arrived safely, and even if it did the tech isn't reliable enough to safely do what you did.
- m_ke 5y ago
  I've worked on similar systems and am aware of these issues. I said that the translation was flawless because I'm bilingual and read it to make sure that there were no mistakes, which I would have expected to see. It was a fairly standard contract and it probably also helps that a lot of the machine translation datasets contain a ton of EU legal documents since they need to be translated for all member states (see https://www.statmt.org/europarl/ https://www.statmt.org/europarl/)

by m_ke 5y ago

0xFACEFEED 5y ago

> My cousin is an MMA fighter in another country, just today he got a contract from an american agent and asked me to translate it. I was able to throw it into google translate and in under 2 seconds it produced a flawless translation of 20 pages of legalese. Flawless sounds like an overstatement. I would hope that you use a professional before signing contract? That's serious stuff. > I have a fairly affordable Hyundai that's able to drive 80 miles on a highway without me touching the steering wheel. Are you referring to lane assist or OpenPilot? In both cases you need to be focused enough on the road that (IMO at least) it doesn't make that big of a difference either way. Certainly not life changing. > I built an app that uses image recognition to automate food logging, from the surveys that we did it cut down the time to log from 15minutes a day to under 2. Can it detect hot dogs? > I've worked on systems to monitor patients at risk of falling in a hospital setting. See my response wrt specialized (medical, industrial, military) settings. There's a lot of other incredible technology at work in hospitals. > My friend built Tonal, which can track your exercise form People exercised just fine before this. I'd classify Tonal as a marginal improvement, at best. I've actually found that removing technology and falling back to simple calisthenics (done properly of course) is having a much greater impact than adding more technology, for various reasons. > Alphafold will be a huge deal for drug discovery. I agree, but it falls under the category of specialized use cases. It's very exciting though.

m_ke 5y ago
You could make the same arguments about computers or the internet.

Jensson 5y ago

> My cousin is an MMA fighter in another country, just today he got a contract from an american agent and asked me to translate it. I was able to throw it into google translate and in under 2 seconds it produced a flawless translation of 20 pages of legalese. You do realize that todays translation services often reverses the meaning of sentences? They are useful for reading random posts where you don't care about the results, but they should never be used when you absolutely need to know the meaning of statements. What you did is akin to putting your sleeping friend into a tesla, turn on the autopilot and see the teslan leave on the road, then posting "See, the tesla drove away perfectly, AI really automated driving!". You don't even know if it arrived safely, and even if it did the tech isn't reliable enough to safely do what you did.

m_ke 5y ago
I've worked on similar systems and am aware of these issues. I said that the translation was flawless because I'm bilingual and read it to make sure that there were no mistakes, which I would have expected to see. It was a fairly standard contract and it probably also helps that a lot of the machine translation datasets contain a ton of EU legal documents since they need to be translated for all member states (see https://www.statmt.org/europarl/ https://www.statmt.org/europarl/)