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The AI facebook has today is already freaky to me at times... while I love any new advancement in AI, these advancements will probably not be used in my interes

by swalsh 13y ago

The AI facebook has today is already freaky to me at times... while I love any new advancement in AI, these advancements will probably not be used in my interests.

mikeg8 13y ago
Completely agreed. Not looking that forward to this.
- logn 13y ago
  Companies like Facebook and Google do a lot though to promote these areas by building great generic tools. Their work in, say, map-reduce has been invaluable to a wide range of applications.
  - devcpp 13y ago
    Again, these applications are important to their customers (advertisers), not to the users. And while the research might be reused somewhere else, these companies are so big that the negative impact to users will be much larger.
Irishsteve 13y ago
It looks like they don't have anything particularly taxing compared to the likes of Google. There is only so much they can apply to the FB feed. Graph search while cool still isn't that advanced.
- Schwolop 13y ago
  There's plenty of data on the world wide web that pertains to you but isn't linked to Facebook - yet. AI that can do context aware authorship analysis could have huge returns for Facebook.
TrainedMonkey 13y ago
Value of Facebook consists of two things, you and your data. It is not good for long term strategy of Facebook to hurt either. Here are some things where smart AI could help: 1. Better filtering of spam bots. 2. Better filtering of ads that would significantly improve ad quality. 3. Smart assistant that learns your habits and makes smart suggestions such as: which events to attend, your writing style, and filters immediate notifications based on personalized importance score. Or Facebook could exploit machine learning/AI techniques to simply drive up click through ratio on their ads.
- Tossrock 13y ago
  The "which events to attend" thing is already up and running
- stokedmartin 13y ago
  >3. Smart assistant that learns your habits and makes smart suggestions such as: ... Recognize your romantic partner using FB network[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759866
dnautics 13y ago
although I agree - it might be worth considering it's creepy because of the uncanny valley
- nl 13y ago
  Uncanny Valley doesn't really happen with AI on the internet. People are already used to people saying and doing dumb things online, so something that is nearly "smart human like" is a big advance (on average).
dundun 13y ago
Yann deals with Machine Learning. His specialty (simplified) was pattern recognition in images (first handwriting then objects). I'd imagine projects that group similar topics (i.e. these people are all in front of the Great Pyramids or these people are all taking pictures of their babies) which probably will help group/filter content
qznc 13y ago
"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter." -- Nathaniel Borenstein

by swalsh 13y ago

The AI facebook has today is already freaky to me at times... while I love any new advancement in AI, these advancements will probably not be used in my interests.

mikeg8 13y ago

Completely agreed. Not looking that forward to this.

logn 13y ago
Companies like Facebook and Google do a lot though to promote these areas by building great generic tools. Their work in, say, map-reduce has been invaluable to a wide range of applications.
- devcpp 13y ago
  Again, these applications are important to their customers (advertisers), not to the users. And while the research might be reused somewhere else, these companies are so big that the negative impact to users will be much larger.

Irishsteve 13y ago

It looks like they don't have anything particularly taxing compared to the likes of Google. There is only so much they can apply to the FB feed. Graph search while cool still isn't that advanced.

Schwolop 13y ago
There's plenty of data on the world wide web that pertains to you but isn't linked to Facebook - yet. AI that can do context aware authorship analysis could have huge returns for Facebook.

TrainedMonkey 13y ago

Value of Facebook consists of two things, you and your data. It is not good for long term strategy of Facebook to hurt either. Here are some things where smart AI could help: 1. Better filtering of spam bots. 2. Better filtering of ads that would significantly improve ad quality. 3. Smart assistant that learns your habits and makes smart suggestions such as: which events to attend, your writing style, and filters immediate notifications based on personalized importance score. Or Facebook could exploit machine learning/AI techniques to simply drive up click through ratio on their ads.

Tossrock 13y ago
The "which events to attend" thing is already up and running
stokedmartin 13y ago
>3. Smart assistant that learns your habits and makes smart suggestions such as: ... Recognize your romantic partner using FB network[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759866

dnautics 13y ago

although I agree - it might be worth considering it's creepy because of the uncanny valley

nl 13y ago
Uncanny Valley doesn't really happen with AI on the internet. People are already used to people saying and doing dumb things online, so something that is nearly "smart human like" is a big advance (on average).

dundun 13y ago

Yann deals with Machine Learning. His specialty (simplified) was pattern recognition in images (first handwriting then objects). I'd imagine projects that group similar topics (i.e. these people are all in front of the Great Pyramids or these people are all taking pictures of their babies) which probably will help group/filter content

qznc 13y ago

"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter." -- Nathaniel Borenstein