“In 2016, Serkan Piantino packed up his desk at Facebook with hopes to move on to something new. The former director of Engineering for Facebook AI Research had every intention to keep working on AI, but quickly realized a huge issue. Unless you’re under the umbrella of one of these big tech companies like Facebook,…
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‘Less common sense than a house cat’: Why Facebook’s AI guru thinks the tech still has a long way to go
“Yann LeCun, who was hired by the social media giant in 2013 to oversee its AI operations, is widely considered one of the “godfathers” of deep learning, the breakthrough technology based on computer programs structured to work like the neural networks in the human brain. “AI is not solved. The techniques that we have at the…
A New York City lawmaker is taking on companies that mine your face -FastCompany
[Photo: Randallbritten/Wikimedia Commons] “Amazon has lately courted controversy with its Rekognition service, a facial scanning software used by law enforcement agencies like ICE, as well as many of its other cloud customers. Facebook is well known for its facial recognition algorithm, allowing the company to identify users and target ads at them accordingly. Last month, Microsoft’s…
How Facebook deals with the fact AI is a mess on smartphones
“Apple, they write, stands out: its “Metal” API for iOS runs on a consistent chip platform and the GPUs in those chips are higher-performance, on average, “making Metal on iOS devices with GPUs an attractive target for efficient neural network inference.” Even then, however, the results of a “rigorous” examination of the speed of inference…
AI Weekly: 2018 in machine learning – Khari Johnson
“On the AI assistant front, we saw Alexa and Cortana begin to work together. We documented how this fall Google, Facebook, and Amazon simultaneously fought major scandals while at the same time entering full pitch mode for smart displays, and we looked at the need for trust in AI assistant adoption. One of my favorites from Kyle Wiggers is about the danger…