Slashdot Mirror
Intel Creates AI Group, Aims For More Focus (zdnet.com)
Intel's artificial intelligence efforts have been scattered over many different units but are now being united into a single operating group. The Artificial Intelligence Products Group will focus on the development of chips and software products tied to machine learning, algorithms, and deep learning. From a report: The company has been repositioning via acquisitions to focus on Internet of Things to autonomous vehicles. The upshot is that Intel is trying to build a data center to IoT stack powered by its processors. In a blog post, Rao outlined how the Artificial Intelligence Products Group will work across multiple units. Part of the group's remit will be to bring AI costs down and forge standards. Rao said the group will combine engineering, labs, software, and hardware from its portfolio.
If they put all of AI development under one department, how are they going to fool the rest of the organization into believing that the artificial intelligence exists, and isn't just a rehash of collision detection, route calculation, and remote control schemes used to move cars around?
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
Intel, seeing their profits go bye-bye in an IoT world, decides that if they cannot produce small processors for IoT, better tether IoT to Intel processors at the mothership. Gee, Intel, and you came up with this hair brained scheme all on your own?
Remember when tech companies used to pay university researchers for this kind of stuff? A professor would get a big grant, they would find some graduate students to do the research, the graduates could mentor the undergraduates, there was a broad understanding of the techniques being used and results were published and peer reviewed. I mean yeah of course this is idealized and it was never really that clean, but it got us pretty far. Now everyone is trying to wall off their research, the tech giants are fighting to produce real AI so they can patent and license it.
http://pdfernhout.net/on-fundi...
"Consider again the self-driving cars mentioned earlier which now cruise some streets in small numbers. The software "intelligence" doing the driving was primarily developed by public money given to universities, which generally own the copyrights and patents as the contractors. Obviously there are related scientific publications, but in practice these fail to do justice to the complexity of such systems. The truest physical representation of the knowledge learned by such work is the codebase plus email discussions of it (plus what developers carry in their heads).
We are about to see the emergence of companies licensing that publicly funded software and selling modified versions of such software as proprietary products. There will eventually be hundreds or thousands of paid automotive software engineers working on such software no matter how it is funded, because there will be great value in having such self-driving vehicles given the result of America's horrendous urban planning policies leaving the car as generally the most efficient means of transport in the suburb. The question is, will the results of the work be open for inspection and contribution by the public? Essentially, will those engineers and their employers be "owners" of the software, or will they instead be "stewards" of a larger free and open community development process?"
And also, earlier, this to Ray Kurzweil in 2000:
http://heybryan.org/fernhout/k...
"... It will be difficult for you to change your opinion on this because you have been heavily rewarded for riding the digital wave. You were making money building reading machines before I bought my first computer -- a Kim-I. But, I think someday the contradiction may become apparent of thinking the road to spiritual enlightenment can come from material competition (a point in your book which deserves much further elaboration). To the extent material competition drives the development of the digital realm the survival of humanity is in doubt.
Still, you are a bright guy. If you study ecology and evolution in more detail, I think you may change your conclusion, or at least admit the significant probability of a bad outcome, and that we should plan
accordingly.
If you do change your opinion in the future, and wish to fund work related to helping ensure humanity survives the birth of the digital realm, please remember me.
MOSH to the end I guess!"
The Bayh-Dole Act is a big part of that disaster (letting universities privatize gains and tightly control use of what they make an with public funds rather than insist publicly funded research goes into the public domain):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...
Anyway, I'm still trying to limp along making glacially slow progress doing free stuff (Twirlip/Pointrel/etc.) on GitHub in increasingly vanishing spare time... My latest small increment:
"High Performance Organizations Reading List"
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Comme les adultes, ce sont les chaussures qu'ils préfèrent nike tn 2016 . Pratiques pour courir et sauter partout, ludiques pour apprendre à faire ses lacets, à scratchs pour les plus pressés, en toile de coton lavable pour pouvoir les salir à sa guise, tendances pour être le roi de la cour de récré et imprimées de motifs pour leur faire plaisir, les baskets revêtent leurs habits et couleurs du printemps pour plaire aux enfants. Il ne reste plus qu'à faire son choix dans une sélection toujours plus riche, des marques pointues, vues aux pieds des plus grands, à celles que nos enfants adorent porter de la crèche jusqu'aux portes du collège.