NISH1001 · April 27, 2019 05:10
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 It has been a year since I gave my talk titled "Debunking AI". Here's a mini thread representing my thoughts: [start]

 "Debunking AI" : A Thread
 A year ago, I had come to realize how misinformed most of the people were and how today's social media and marketing schemes have generated a type of misguided "fear" in people. [1/n]
 The only fear should be the mishandling of algorithms and misdirected intellectual properties, which in some ways is related to privacy. [2/n]
 Nevertheless, I tried to give the presentation from my engineering perspective as to how algorithms are powerful and stupid at the same time. [3/n]
 I did try giving them perspective on trending topics like fake news, deep fakes, bots, and surveillance. [4/n]
 And after a year, nothing has changed, except for the fact that the hype-train is still going on surrounding AI. [5/n]
 It's okay to think AI as a part of a tool, to be able to integrate to existing systems allowing "human" in the loop. But from a developer/researcher/engineering perspective the fear isn't worth it at all except privacy and mishandling of such systems. [6/n]
 The major corporations under G-MAFIA (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Amazon) and BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) are the ones who (in some ways) controlling these technologies. Although the startups are ever increasing around this hype-train. [7/n]
 The major concern is, as I said, is the enormous amount of people's data that has been exploited. That's like an episode of Black Mirror in itself. China's move to social credit system is synonymous to "Nose Dive" episode. [8/n]
 These are creating a type of monopoly around these hype train. With a huge amount of resources (data, compute power and capital investment), maybe the fear has been exaggerated to the level mass media seems pretty ignorant... [9/n]
 ... ignorant to the level that mass media should actually shade some light into the challenges on current hype-trained AI systems. [10/n]
 It's fine that AI, as a tool and a learning system, is being democratized and made easily accessible, but that hasn't really mitigated the real fear. It's only being exasperated. [11/11]

	It has been a year since I gave my talk titled "Debunking AI". Here's a mini thread representing my thoughts: [start]

	"Debunking AI" : A Thread
	A year ago, I had come to realize how misinformed most of the people were and how today's social media and marketing schemes have generated a type of misguided "fear" in people. [1/n]
	The only fear should be the mishandling of algorithms and misdirected intellectual properties, which in some ways is related to privacy. [2/n]
	Nevertheless, I tried to give the presentation from my engineering perspective as to how algorithms are powerful and stupid at the same time. [3/n]
	I did try giving them perspective on trending topics like fake news, deep fakes, bots, and surveillance. [4/n]
	And after a year, nothing has changed, except for the fact that the hype-train is still going on surrounding AI. [5/n]
	It's okay to think AI as a part of a tool, to be able to integrate to existing systems allowing "human" in the loop. But from a developer/researcher/engineering perspective the fear isn't worth it at all except privacy and mishandling of such systems. [6/n]
	The major corporations under G-MAFIA (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Amazon) and BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) are the ones who (in some ways) controlling these technologies. Although the startups are ever increasing around this hype-train. [7/n]
	The major concern is, as I said, is the enormous amount of people's data that has been exploited. That's like an episode of Black Mirror in itself. China's move to social credit system is synonymous to "Nose Dive" episode. [8/n]
	These are creating a type of monopoly around these hype train. With a huge amount of resources (data, compute power and capital investment), maybe the fear has been exaggerated to the level mass media seems pretty ignorant... [9/n]
	... ignorant to the level that mass media should actually shade some light into the challenges on current hype-trained AI systems. [10/n]
	It's fine that AI, as a tool and a learning system, is being democratized and made easily accessible, but that hasn't really mitigated the real fear. It's only being exasperated. [11/11]