Re:Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing ...
by mindcrime on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:23PM
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I didn't realize the internet or cars were created by the employees of advertising corporations for the sole purpose of furthering their surveillance and user manipulation capabilities.
Seriously man? Do you think you might be being just a little bit hyperbolic there? I mean, it's pretty darn clear that Deep Learning isn't "created ... for the sole purpose of furthering ... surveillance and user manipulation capabilities" when almost all of the papers on the topic are freely available on arXiv, and source code for nearly every important implementation is available as Open Source, usually in multiple languages, using multiple different frameworks (which are almost all Open Source as well). I mean, sure, Google use Deep Learning to display ads... great. But you, or me, or anybody else, can also use the same techniques for our own (presumably more noble) ends.
Seriously man? Do you think you might be being just a little bit hyperbolic there? I mean, it's pretty darn clear that Deep Learning isn't "created ... for the sole purpose of furthering ... surveillance and user manipulation capabilities" when almost all of the papers on the topic are freely available on arXiv, and source code for nearly every important implementation is available as Open Source, usually in multiple languages, using multiple different frameworks (which are almost all Open Source as well). I mean, sure, Google use Deep Learning to display ads... great. But you, or me, or anybody else, can also use the same techniques for our own (presumably more noble) ends.