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My issue with this approach is that the synthetic data, and the language used to describe it, necessarily encode a viewpoint - a bias - on the part of the creat
by doctorhandshake 3y ago
My issue with this approach is that the synthetic data, and the language used to describe it, necessarily encode a viewpoint - a bias - on the part of the creators. I am firmly behind the need to use language as an intermediary signifier, not just for utility purposes, but because it unlocks the ability to use language as an anchor for arbitrary AR data. My problem with this particular approach is that it requires us all to agree on what things are called, and requires the training dataset to cover everything users might come across.
My feeling is the better approach is to train a generalized segmentation model, derive multi-parameter representations of those segmented ‘things’, derive embeddings from those things for compression purposes, then allow users to ‘tag’ or ‘label’ or ‘describe’ those things as a service to other users. Then we could choose whose language about the world we ‘subscribe’ to, and anyone could attach any digital payload to any real thing/person/place without anyone else’s help or permission.
- mycall 3y ago> My problem with this particular approach is that it requires us all to agree on what things are called Walk around your home and notice [almost] everything already has a name for it as it comes from some store (unique handmade items are an outlier). Let's just label things we all agree they are called (or give them multiple labels).
- doctorhandshake 3y agoI think you overestimate the degree to which your choice of words overlaps with those of others, especially when you try to be more specific than a generic noun by applying modifiers or less-used nouns. What you call a daybed I might call a couch or a sofa or a lounge chair or a chaise or a hassock or a flat couch or a downstairs bed or a family bed … and all this presumes I speak the same flavor of English you do, or that whoever made the data set is familiar with the type of furniture I live around, or how it’s used. The examples are literally limitless, before you even get into the truly subjective things - not just names but opinions about things - that people might want to use to connect digital things to real things. Stuff like ‘larger than average’, ‘wasteful’, ‘beautiful,’ ‘sacred’, ‘durable’, etc etc etc Believing there is one map from the real world to the world of symbols is solipsism.