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It doesn't have to be the entire video feed. it could be snapshots from a specific direction. If millions use it, there's a good chance even a handful of snapshots from each user at a location that thousands of people pass by could get it mapped better than how they currently do.

There's a number of things that are alarming me about this, but I'll focus on one thing: the privacy implications. Not just for the user, but for those who will appear in the pictures that Google will be - for sure - ingesting for the purpose of crowdsourcing street view imagery. Suddenly we have this platform that will be capturing millions of faces and potentially know where people have been even if they don't use the app.

Not to mention that this type of app is treating people as incapable of following directions and it opens up the possibility of new avenues of advertising. Google already keeps an archive of your whereabouts and can even tell when you get in and out of a car. Just imagine wielding your phone around and getting "special offers" for that store you go by but never walk into.

All the robots were the same AI and it effectively killed off humanity because it thought that we were not good enough. When a machine starts killing us off because of dubious and intrinsically evil and selfish reasons, then I can't think it's benevolent.

Yeah,and that's the point I was trying to make about right now. But at some point we'll find ourselves in the position of having created general intelligence. Be it smarter than us or not. In the case of this model, it "could accurately simulate how the universe would look if certain parameters were tweaked [...] even though the model had never received any training data where those parameters varied."

This means that it somehow was able to figure something specific out based on data that had nothing to do with it. Whether by accident or because there's a correlation that we haven't yet figured out, this model was able to understand it. And that's amazing and scary at the same time.

AI scares me. Even though I've used neutral networks and even more complex models/networks in projects and have a fair understanding of how they work, they still scare me a lot. Even though we are far away (supposedly) from creating a sentient AI, I can't help but think that AI will turn into something like "I am Mother" rather than C-3PO.

And yes, I understand that AI and machine learning can help us in ways that will advance our abilities in medicine, science, etc but we're human. if something can be used for evil, we should be sure that that will be attempted. We, as a species, have an annoying need of being the first and having control of everything. Only that AI may, in the future, be uncontrollable.

Same here.

Thank you for linking this.

The bottomline is that I've seen it happen in real life, to people in my social circle and family.

I wrote a reply to another comment that addressed something similar. The best way I can create a correlation in the real world is this way: If you go to a restaurant with 20 choices it takes people much longer to order something as opposed to a restaurant that can fit their menu on one page.

It's some psychological paradox, or research, that I can't remember. Someone actually replied with a TED talk that touches on this matter.

I don't have tangible information, but what I'm referring to is what I know from experience in my social circle. Maybe, as you say, my perspective is distorted in some way. However, 15 years ago if you wanted to meet someone you had to go out and talk to people, which is hard and you're more open to hearing someone out. Today you open an app and swipe into oblivion and no one seems good enough. I've heard many people say that; both men and women. I've had people show me perfectly nice looking people they met through online dating and they either swiped right or rejected them after one date because they weren't good enough.

And again, it's important to marry someone you want to marry and not marry just because you're getting older or for the sake of it. Those marriages, more often than not, end in divorce. But I see a lot of people either using Tinder as a way to get as many one night stands as possible, or swiping away looking for someone perfect who they'll never find. I also know people who developed severe depression because they were on the receiving end of perpetuated ghosting.

I am, by no means, saying that online dating hasn't worked for people, but it just seems like it's done more harm than it's done good.

I'm supposed no one has mentioned the - sort of - deterioration in our relationships. back in the day it used to be a lot easier for two people up meet, fall in love, get married and have kids. I'm not saying that there weren't any forced marriages, but that's not my point. In the age of tinder we are exposed to more and more people and possibilities. So basically it seems like the average Joe and Betty keep holding off for the perfect mate, when chances are they already rejected them. I'm just observing that the typical meets are decreasing rapidly and could be to, at least partially, blame.

Still, the notion of shaken geologists because of earthquakes is pretty funny.

Greek has funny animal noises. Dog: γάβ (yav - but pronounce the y as yearn). Chicken: πάκ πάκ πάκ (pak pak pak). Bird in general: τσίου (tsiou - pronounced kind of like chew).

This is an interesting project. Is there a way to save the produced model, because I didn't see anything in the examples?

This looks pretty cool, although it's missing a little more explanation on how to actually use it. I think the API section doesn't have enough information.