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The interviewer, at the end of the talk, almost touched an important and fundamental aspect of what Google is doing. In fact, what everyone who's working with m
by throwaway29303 5y ago
The interviewer, at the end of the talk, almost touched an important and fundamental aspect of what Google is doing. In fact, what everyone who's working with machine learning is trying to do:
Who gets to decide what view of the world is normal and acceptable by everyone?
The problem with this question is that no matter how one approaches it there will be a part of society (or even between countries) who's going to be left out[0] or will have to adapt to this new way of thinking (or how the model performs)... And at that point we have to ask ourselves: are we being really ourselves or are we being modeled after the sum of the outputs of all machine learning models out there?
When Sundar Pichai said AI is more profound than electricity or fire[1] he wasn't just making a public relations or marketing statement.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
[1] - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/google-ceo-ai-will-be-bigger-than-electricity-or-fire/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/google-ceo-ai-will-be...