[FRIAM] ML startups

[Roger Critchlow]

Ah, just imagined the dark side.  They'll weaponize it for spam calls, one
question and the model will tell them exactly what kind of sucker you are
and what offer to make.

Don't answer the phone.

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On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 9:02 PM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

> There's an article in Science about training a deep learning model to
> replicate human non-utility-maximizing decision making behaviors.
>
> https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6547/1150
> https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6547/1209
>
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>
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 6:49 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is it just me or are machine learning startups now in a race to the
>> bottom?
>>
>>
>>
>> One I saw today on LinkedIn takes all of the digital footprint of an
>> employee, which means all e-mail and all Slack messages as well as Github,
>> Confluence, Trello, etc. and synthesizes it into a “skills picture”.
>>
>> Because of course the managers haven’t a clue about the skills of the
>> individual contributors.   Is this the world we want to live in?
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcus
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