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Oleg Batluk

Facebook Says Its Artificial Intelligence Will Be Like A Car For Your Mind | Popular Sc... - 0 views

  • Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), the division within the company dedicated to AI
  • some are new, like a working unsupervised learning model
  • The company has made substantial investment in artificial intelligence in the last few years
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  • Most recently Facebook has shown off a new addition for blind users
  • where we are right now in AI development. We're in the literal infancy
  • Facebook reports that it the neural net can now judge with up to 90 percent accuracy if the blocks will fall, and they claim that's better than most humans.
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    Facebook made experiments showing AI smarter than humans and presented social solutions for blind people
Maria Gurova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - Максим Трудолюбов: Государство беззащитных - 0 views

  • Дело в гуманизации безопасности. И в воплощении в политике идеи, что мир состоит прежде всего из людей, а не из государств.
  • Российское государство ни в какой из своих инкарнаций не было чемпионом защиты индивидуальной безопасности и формирования среды.
  • Мы уже недалеки от признания, что индивидуальная и национальная безопасность исключают друг друга.
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  • Но традиции незащищенности граждан есть в прошлом каждой страны. Сила не в том, чтобы за такой опыт держаться, а в том, чтобы его преодолевать.
  • что стабильных правил игры ждать не приходится: то, что можно сегодня, станет запретным завтра. Ощущение опасности, которое внушают представители власти, — не стихийные эмоции, а вполне намеренная технология управления населением.
  • Нежелание заниматься развитием инструментов для вложения денег, изъятие накопительной части пенсии и нынешнее обесценение рубля — все это подтверждение того, что государство в лучшем случае не справилось с обеспечением безопасности сбережений и инвестиций граждан.
  • Переключение внимания общества на внешних врагов — почти неизбежное следствие провала создания внутри России достойной среды человеческих отношений.
  • Содержание большинства телепрограмм российского ТВ — это не страх перед внешними врагами, а концентрированный страх общества и власти друг перед другом.
  • Готовность к дурному исходу, к человеческим и экономическим утратам — не мистика и не фантазия. Это и не просто национальное свойство, замечаемое иностранцами и прочитываемое даже в российских лицах, а выражение незащищенности. То, что за тобой могут прийти; то, что могут отнять все, что ты делал и берег, — не болезнь, а правда жизни.
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    this is a very good piece on why Russians are so "fortress thinking" and are incapable of planning for the long term 
Vladimir Antonov

Soon, Gmail's AI Could Reply to Your Email for You | WIRED - 0 views

  • what’s called “deep learning”—a form of artificial intelligence that’s rapidly reinventing a wide range of online services—the company is beefing up its Inbox by Gmail app so that it can analyze the contents of an email and then suggest a few (very brief) responses
  • The idea is that you can rapidly respond to someone while on the go—without having to manually tap a fresh message into your smartphone keyboard.
  • system learns to generate appropriate replies by analyzing scads of email conversations from across Google’s Gmail service
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  • neural network—a vast network of machines that approximates the web of neurons in the human brain—and this neural network analyzes the information in order to “learn” a particular task.
  • Google’s Smart Reply system doesn’t always get things right. But that’s part of the reason the company provides three potential replies to each email—not just one.
  • The system uses what’s called a “long short-term-memory,” or LSTM, neural network. Essentially, this is a neural net that exhibits something akin to human memory. It can “remember” the beginning of an email as it’s parsing the end—and that helps it, on some level, understand this natural language
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    This technology could be developed further to other areas, to tailored made games for kids for example, that are adopt to each individual gaming style so kids find that games are actually made specially for them what makes their experience really personal and unique.
Maria Gurova

Hands On With Tobii's Eye-Tracking Laptop - 0 views

  • Even if I turned away and turned back, Tobii instantly picked up my gaze
  • Forget waving at the screen, I want my computer to look into my eyes and know what I want to do.
  • I was looking on screen
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  • Tobii
  • building a 3D model of my eyes and could watch and see where
  • Tobii Gaze eye-tracking technology-equipped laptop
  • Even if I turned away and turned back, Tobii instantly picked up my gaze
  • Leaving aside the slightly unfortunate mental image of your eyes touching anything, this does sound like a new form of human/computer interface.
  • Windows 8’s modern design interface seems particularly well suited to gaze control. The screen scrolls from left to right and is comprised of a number of large app squares. I would simply stare at square and then hit enter to activate the app. Tobii never missed my gaze. Whatever I was looking at, the eye-tracking tech would launch it.
  • Tobii has no plans to deliver its own commercial laptops. Instead, it’s working with OEMs on integration.
  • Tobii is also working on eye-tracking control for tablets.
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    Are you ready to control your computer with your eyes, or will your hold to your mouse and keyboard for as long as humanly possible?
Maria Gurova

Meanwhile in the Future: Everybody Is Reviewed in a Reputation Database - 2 views

  • Recently, an app called Peeple got a whole lot of attention for trying to be the Yelp for Humans
  • But what would it be like if we lived in a world where everything you do is subject to a rating doled out by a combination of machines and other people?
  • Michael Fertik, the founder of Reputation.com and the author of the book The Reputation Economy, talks on the episode about all the ways that brands and companies are already compiling your information into a profile that helps them make decisions about you. Linkedin, AirBnB, Uber, they’re all gathering what Fertik calls your “digital exhaust” to learn more about you
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  • So what makes Peeple different from say AirBnB where you rate your tenants? Jeff Hancock, a professor of communications at Standford, says it comes down to turning your interpersonal relationships into transactions.
  • But in 15 or 20 years, all those reputation systems might be combined. And they might totally dictate your life: what jobs you get, what insurance you’re offered, who you date, where you live
  • Fertik predicts that in just five years, companies won’t post jobs, but rather plug in their desires into a database to find the right person. Jobs will come to you, he says. But part of that selection process will probably include parameters outside someone’s direct qualifications
  • If financial success, personal success, housing, food options, all that is tied into this reputation system, the people who have the understanding and the money to make that reputation system work for them will succeed
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