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Google Tool Lets Any AI App Learn Without Taking All Your Data (cnet.com)
A new computing tool developed by Google will let developers build AI-powered apps. The upside is it's doing so without sucking up all of your information. From a report: Google on Wednesday released TensorFlow Federated, open-source software that incorporates federated learning, an AI training system. It works by using data that's spread out across a lot of devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to teach itself new tricks. But rather than send the data back to a central server for study, it learns on your phone or tablet itself and sends only the lesson back to the app maker.
Federated learning runs "part of the machine learning algorithm right next to where the data is on the device," Alex Ingerman, a product manager at Google Research, said in an interview. The algorithm applies what it already knows to the data on your phone, such as suggesting replies to emails, and creates a summary of what it learned in the process to send back.
Federated learning runs "part of the machine learning algorithm right next to where the data is on the device," Alex Ingerman, a product manager at Google Research, said in an interview. The algorithm applies what it already knows to the data on your phone, such as suggesting replies to emails, and creates a summary of what it learned in the process to send back.
It still sends your personal data summed up in a nice little file. It just uses your CPU cycles to process and summarize it before it sends it on to Google.
Do you send the raw sensor data to the mother ship, or are you using federated learning?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
So now instead of merely sharing my data, I am going to have to allow Google to run code on my devices. Somehow I feel giving execution privileges is a bigger hole than data privileges. Next they will ask for your bank details so they can keep you safe from being hacked....
**Life is too short to be serious**
The upside is it's doing so without sucking up all of your information.
The downside is that it's going to suck up all your information for other reasons. ;)
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Exactly, AI's are basically compressors. It's already been demonstrated one can extract things like social security numbers and stuff from trained AIs that don't actually output SS numbers. Like Ragu spaghetti sauce, it's in there, just not recognizably at a glance.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Sure, just like the Google Streetview cars were of course only taking photos of the streets. That corporation turned evil a long time ago.
Learning about your behavior/data habits is just another form of personal data.