Agreed, OpenAI is interesting, and worth keeping an eye on. More immediately, one of the most useful techniques in "weak AI" is so-called "deep neural networks" (cf. Hinton et al for the last 15 years), which can now be deployed quite effectively (see e..g "Smart Replies" in mobile gmail/inbox apps). Google's recent code release in this area is quite interesting: https://www.tensorflow.org/
The challenge with a bunch of these approaches from a Mozilla perspective is that like a lot of machine learning approaches, they tend to work better with more data, which provides structural advantages to highly centralized data silos. Still, it's technology worth getting familiar with, especially as there are likely many problems where "enough data" doesn't have to be "scary data". TensorFlow looks intriguing to me, although I haven't dug in (and haven't kept up with neural net research in a very long time). -david On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 9:23 PM Sandip Kamat <[email protected]> wrote: > A couple thoughts on AI and us -- > > Thinking about the connected devices world in general (and personally, > with my current focus on Vaani in particular), it is hard not to think > about AI. In Vaani team, we are (on purpose) not looking into AI in that > context for various reasons including - we need to focus for voice > enablement first and AI is a vast area in itself. (In fact, AI is playing a > big role in natural language understanding). However, it is an area that we > should definitely keep an eye on for the sheer impact it could have on the > tech world in general and users + our values in particular. As the big > players collect insane amounts of data from users and combined with the > power of AI, start predicting your needs before you think of them, it could > be a slippery slope for privacy, user choice and dubious practices around > user consent. > > On that note, the openAI announcement in December is interesting. It is > backed by tech billionaires but they say their goal is "to advance digital > intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, > unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.". This is great. > Sounds a lot like how Mozilla would think. However, there are not many code > snippets or plans/roadmaps available yet. They say they will "collaborate > with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to > research and deploy new technologies." I am unsure if anyone has any > insights on their plans yet? Sounds worthwhile to get some insights. > > Secondly, if some day Mozilla does get involved, what would be the ways > our connected products could benefit from something like OpenAI? thoughts? > (For me, I would like my own API to that intelligence that I can control > my data access with, train/untrain my models and you know...make it work > for me, not the other way around). > > -Sandip > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >
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