hmm, thought I posted but it seems not to have?
–photo ID is a strong bar. I guess I got lucky a number of years ago, I used a screen name that is somewhat like actual names in parts of the world.
For anyone who is wondering how to permanently delete their Facebook account (which I highly recommend if you have one) go here:
https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
And just follow the instructions.
Here’s an article with more information on the matter:
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Not seeing how a bug fits in here.
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Did you mean that to include interpretability of the communication between AI’s not just the decisions made? That’s what i find interesting.
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Call it a design flaw if you prefer. The whole reason the machines were programmed to use English words as tokens was to make it easier for people to interpret how their decisions had been reached. How do I know that? Because there’s no other reason to do so. Obviously, the learning algo drifted and the sw failed to achieve one of its goals. That’s a common problem when working with (statistically) biased data.
Exactly. Here’s an example: Medical decisionmaking sw has been in use for ages. When it was first introduced, it was helpful, but doctors were reluctant to use it because it wasn’t always clear how the decisions had been reached. Fixing that was an early problem in human interpretability and established the importance of that.
In this case, they probably used some version of an RNN (recurrent neural net). These easily drift into gibberish if they don’t get a rich enough and varied enough set of learning data. Something like that is probably what happened here.
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“I have seen the future and it does not work.”
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Easy answer. Stop using Facebook, block their bots (which are embedded in most websites) using extensions like Disconnect. Starve them of their biggest revenue source…your information that they sell without your knowlege
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Always here for Zardoz.
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Teach an artificial intelligence how to drive a car. What could possibly go wrong?
The danger is that, yes, a machine has faster reaction times, never goes to sleep, has super-human dexterity and strength, etc. All of which would improve safety taken alone.
But, it could make the sort of unpredictable mistake that a human mind (except perhaps a hallucinating one) would never make.
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“Mistake” isn’t even the right way to think about it. At the point self-driving cars become the norm, what the machines do will be the default, and what humans do will be the exceptions. All the bots knew that a 50-millisecond blink of the brake lights means a double lane change, why didn’t you?
Time to resurrect one of my favorite Onion videos:
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Or The Terminator series with Sky Net
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I think we saw that coming all along.
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I and members of my family created fake FB accounts many yeas ago, and those accounts have never been challenged.
I think for newer accounts, FB requires some kind of authentication, including cell phone #.
I agree with that, for those people who pay attention, but we are in the minority at least for now.
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This is a very interesting, and very serious predicament for the US, and the entire world, for that matter. We do value free speech, and have even codified that concept in a whole host of our laws. As is the case with virtually everything worth while, it can only be tolerated in moderation. I certainly don’t have any answers for the best way to deal with the foreign (and domestic) abuse of our constitutional freedoms.
I’ll just note the irony of reading down to the bottom of the article, and seeing the “Like” button before reaching the adds. Since i don’t do Facebook (or Linked In, or use any other social media platform), i’m limited to only “liking” Sam Thielman’s work exclusively on this site. On that note, great work, Sam! I like!
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Also, you can change the username on your current account (handy for people who marry, for instance and take a spouse’s name, or for people who go with a nickname). Some people I know have shortened their FB username to first and middle name, omitting their last name to thwart identity theft and spamming.
I was a member for about a week many years ago. I have two children who use it regularly and I congratulate myself over and over that I kept free from the tentacles.
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“… largely automated ad-buying platform are dealing with a kind of information that is totally unprotected by regulation…”
I’m confident we can write and pass legislation that won’t violate anyone’s Constitutional rights.
I did not predict this outcome for FB, with Russian trolls and all that entailed, but am in no ways shocked.
Now it’s Russians, maybe next time some domestic groups, or Chinese or Norwegians.
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Nice post. And yes, the irony is delicious. Like you, I avoid social media entirely, treat them like Biblical lepers.
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I am Chair of my building’s Anti-Social Club.
We have no membership, and have therefore never met.
Perfect!
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