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Vladimir Vapnik Has Joined Facebook AI Research
- sebg 12y agoYesterday's discussion => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8659672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8659672
- pepon 12y agoI don't now how to feel about this. It is great that facebook provides a good environment for Machine Learning research. Besides they publish papers and contribute to the community. However, it is sad and disturbing that all that talent and knowledge in AI is also working to create a tool that doesn't give a shit about our privacy.
- andreasklinger 12y agoCopy-paste for those not interested going to fb.com: We are delighted to announce that Vladimir Vapnik has joined Facebook AI Research. Vladimir is universally known in the machine learning and statistics communities as the father of statistical learning theory and the co-inventor of the Support Vector Machine method. One of the key concepts of learning theory bears his name: the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension, which measures the capacity of a learning machine. Vladimir is rejoining some of his long-time collaborators Jason Weston, Ronan Collobert, and Yann LeCun. He is working on new book, and will be collaborating with FAIR research scientists to develop some of his new ideas on conditional density estimation, learning with privileged information, and other topics.
- davidiach 12y agoA lot of people here seem to deeply distrust Facebook. Is it mainly because of the privacy concerns?