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Re:The most, and least, walkable cities on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:10PM (#41071575)
Interactive visualization with free access: https://citiesmoving.com/visualizations/
Re:Anthropic launches Tool Use (function calling) on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:45AM (#39940529)
What will the cost be? When sending back function calls results, what will be the number of tokens? Just the ones corresponding to the results or that plus the full context?
Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097

Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/diplomacy_cicero

Site: https://ai.facebook.com/research/cicero/

Expert player vs. Cicero AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5192bvUS7k

RFP: https://ai.facebook.com/research/request-for-proposal/toward...

The most interesting anecdote I heard from the team: "during the tournament dozens of human players never even suspected they were playing against a bot even though we played dozens of games online."

Research paper: https://makeavideo.studio/Make-A-Video.pdf

Examples: https://make-a-video.github.io/

Demo site: https://makeavideo.studio/

I am told live demo and open model are on the way.

Re:Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:04AM (#33021714)
Research paper: https://makeavideo.studio/Make-A-Video.pdf

Examples: https://make-a-video.github.io/

Demo site: https://makeavideo.studio/

I am told live demo and open model are on the way.

Re:Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:15PM (#32017416)
Sure, agreed, I try to always submit the exact title for that reason but I got lazy as I was on my phone.
Re:Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:05PM (#32017319)
I do.
Re:Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:03PM (#32017290)
I am actually no longer working for Meta. I do think the title reflects the news and is factually correct. But happy for @dang to change it back as it’s not exactly the title of the article
Re:No Language Left Behind on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @05:09PM (#32006866)
Are all the 200x200 translations going directly or is English (or another language) used as an intermediate for some of them?
Re:The singularity is close? on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:34PM (#30872454)
Our intelligence isn't task specific, but that doesn't mean it can solve any problem. It's actually full of biases and very optimized for our survival (vs being a general problem solver). It's ok to talk about more or less narrow/general tasks/intelligence. But what threshold of generality is "general"?

And the problem is that once people assert this "absolute" level of generality, they assume it can do anything, including make itself more intelligent.

Re:The singularity is close? on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:15PM (#30872289)
AGI is a concept that people throw around without defining. Human intelligence is not general, it's highly specialized. So if AGI is not human-level intelligence, what is it? https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1204013978210320384?s=20&t...
Legality aside, this is a terrible and naive way to think of DEI. Candidates recruited this way will have a stigma attached to them (“they were recruited because they were X”).

A better way is to enforce DSA - Diverse Slate Approach - which ensure that you don’t recruit anybody without having considered multiple genders and/or ethnicity before making the offer.

The goal of DSA is to recruit the best candidate for the role, but ensure a broad set of candidates has been considered. It’s a win win for all and it works.

Which feature are you talking about? This is a research project, not a product. The point of research projects is to investigate and figure out answers we don't have today.
It's hard to elaborate on something that's not developed yet.

Here are the principles we are using when developing these products:

https://about.facebook.com/realitylabs/responsible-innovatio...

In practice, it will mean that some things you will know about, but don't necessarily give consent (i.e., someone taking a picture or a video of you), while other will likely require consent (i.e., recognizing you in these pictures/videos).

No, that’s not a reasonable assumption. Photos or videos of you are likely on Facebook’s servers, uploaded by friends or others when you are in public.

What I can assure you though is that if you are not a user, we are not recognizing you in these pictures and videos. We won’t do that without explicit consent from users.

These are great points. And yes, we'll only get there if it becomes part of the culture, which this is trying to communicate:

https://about.facebook.com/realitylabs/responsible-innovatio...

but I don't expect you to take it at face value yet, we have a long way to go.

Here is a link to all the tools we provide: https://research.fb.com/data/
From https://about.facebook.com/realitylabs/projectaria/

"Participants will only record in either Facebook offices (once they reopen), wearers’ private homes (with consent from all members of the household), or public spaces, and won’t record in private venues without written consent from such places. Before any information gathered in a public place is made available to our researchers, it will be automatically scrubbed to blur faces and vehicle license plates."

So we anonymize all the content collected in public. I don't have the stats for the face blurring algorithm, and while you can ask for your data to be removed, we don't provide locations/times. These are good suggestions though.

The question was about opting out of our "utopia", I wouldn't call that a "straightforward question". If you do have a straightforward question, especially about this or another specific project, I can try to provide a straightforward answer.
My point in linking to the settlement wasn't about the fine, it was about the guarantees, oversight, and accountability that came with it. Read the FTC news release, and you'll see that these are pretty extensive.

And I agree completely on the public conversation, this is why we released this dataset and why we are doing project Aria.

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