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Re:Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand... by yellow_postit on Sunday October 14, 2018 @10:30PM (#18217025)
How do you propose growing representative training examples if they can’t collect the data, at least in part?
Re:Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand... by labbyz on Sunday October 14, 2018 @10:48PM (#18217092)
Would depend on my budget (because it would certainly cost more than hovering up all training data for free).

Perhaps: Pay/reward for data sharing, decentralized training, differential privacy, local training and submitting the weights, local fine-tuning of pre-trained model, marketplace of third-party (open source) models, ...

Re:Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:33AM (#18217811)
... or just have the user repeat some phrases for 5-15 minutes during initial setup? Like you could do with good ol' Microsoft SpeechAPI from the first decade of this century?

The obsession with cloud-based machine learning is creating half of these problems.