milaresearcher

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   by milaresearcher 6y ago

   I strongly disagree with your statement that profit is the only objectective, rational measure of social impact. It would be great if the balance of human and environmental well-being produced by an organization could be captured as such, b
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   by milaresearcher 7y ago

   I totally agree with your statement about AGI, but wouldn't be as pessimistic about neural networks in general. Of course our data is enough for useful deep neural models! Many problems can be solved without it, but in areas of compute
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   by milaresearcher 8y ago

   I agree with you that it's early days for RL. I think some companies are using it in their advertising platforms, but it's not really my field. That said, I strongly disagree about what constitutes the proper utilization of resear
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   by milaresearcher 8y ago

   Off the top of my head, there will be positive usecases in assistive technology for the visually impaired. Also, if the computer knows where I am looking, it may enable some productivity tools. That said, I agree with you that these potenti
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   by milaresearcher 8y ago

   By deep tech he means tech companies backed by patents or defensible intellectual property. Technology businesses enabled by research or new ideas, not another chat app. He was a research physicist that worked on developing High-Dynamic Ran