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by sapphireblue 10y ago
1) It would be ridiculously unfair to people that would benefit from AI most: 6 billion of poor people living lives that are unimaginably unpleasant to a western person. 2) Hype about "superintelligent AI coming soon" is pretty mu
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Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter(arxiv.org)
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by sapphireblue 10y ago
There is a fundamental conflict of interest between security people and developers/owners/the general public. Infosec isn't interested in curing fundamental IT insecurity by, say, using safe languages (like Rust or something
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by sapphireblue 11y ago
This. Looks like a classical story of ideas guy using an engineer with relevant education and a decade of experience, then kicking him out. Looks very unjust to me, esp. considering there is big SV establishment (YC) on the other side.
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by sapphireblue 11y ago
Of course there is no certainty. For example the Moore's "law" (~ economic trend) has officially died. We can't rely on free bi-annual compute doubling anymore. Still, deep learning has become a very powerful tool and we
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by sapphireblue 11y ago
To be honest Watson didn't use any deep learning (I read the paper, see http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/23... ). It uses an ensemble of dozens of question-answering al
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by sapphireblue 11y ago
If you put these 700k in Vanguard, you could get ~3.21% per year forever. That works out to 22k$/year. Perhaps it's below poverty line in US, but for some countries that could be upper part of middle-class income.
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by sapphireblue 11y ago
Who said you need to stay in SV once you are done? 1M should allow for pretty comfortable lifestyle in low-cost area.
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by sapphireblue 11y ago
If he gets his 1M$ he may never ever have to work again.
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by sapphireblue 11y ago
The progress in machine learning/deep learning for last 5 years has been literally staggering. Read about new state of art results. There is already superhuman visual object recognition, voice recognition, good machine translation, des
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by sapphireblue 11y ago
I don't have a college degree (that doesn't mean I don't have lots of technical experience though, including some machine learning at amateur level) and I'm not from the 1st world, but I disagree with you on that matter.