And note I used Google to find that quote above ...
@bertieb Probably. If you spend all your time on your phone looking for a new car I don't see why not :)
> Recent research highlights just how uneven are the efforts to run neural nets on Google's Android operating system. Benchmark results from researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich reveal that development of neural networks on mobile devices is still a hairy business, with frameworks that are incomplete, chipsets with mixed support for networks, and results that are difficult to benchmark reliably.
Woke up not feeling too well early this morning. I might not be around for the next few hours.
That said...
AI is mostly a marketing thing. While there have been major advances in machine learning technology at both the hardware and software levels, the technology is still far from mature. The promise of machine learning is that it'll enable computers to make complex decisions and provide personalized assistance to users; however, AI and ML still require substantial computational power and incorrect results are still common.
As things stand, it's being overhyped, but AI/ML is a technology that has many, many current and future applications and will only be more prevalent in the coming years, especially as AI accelerators are becoming increasingly common in all kinds of devices.
Some companies are putting too much faith in the technology, letting computers make complex decisions at scale in an attempt to solve previously-intractable problems, but producing lots of erroneous results. Amazon review-banned me and I'm pretty sure this was a bad AI decision.
The system tries to distinguish between real and fake reviews and there's been quite a few complaints of false positives.
In other words, AI is being used to replace human judgment when the current state of the art really only allows it to assist humans.
Consumers want to see the latest technologies as soon as they're available, often without regard for maturity. AI is getting overhyped as a result.
And I have other concerns about AI as a technology for human augmentation. In particular, I'm worried about the possibility that not everyone will benefit equally from it, and those without access to the technology will be at a severe disadvantage. This would create a haves/have-nots situation.
I don't see a massive risk of something like an AI takeover, though unequal access is a very real concern for me.
Well... it's backup time. For whatever reason, I've been using the slower of the two spare laptop hard drives on Astaroth (640 GB WD Blue) for backups, and the faster one (750 GB WD Black) on Stolas. This is changing this time around.
System image backup already in progress on Astaroth. Let's clean up Stolas and prepare it for backup...
