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In 2020 - I've found myself caring less about #AI research and more about the infrastructure society needs to use it
I just feel like we've got cars - but no highways
Pick almost any problem you'd actually want to solve with #AI and there's basically no data available to you
I just feel like we've got cars - but no highways
Pick almost any problem you'd actually want to solve with #AI and there's basically no data available to you
Like - I'm sitting on a sofa right now - no clue whether it's likely to cause me back-pain or not.
Presumably millions of people are sitting on couches right now.
... but am I able to use all my fancy #AI tools to study it?
Nope...
Presumably millions of people are sitting on couches right now.
... but am I able to use all my fancy #AI tools to study it?
Nope...
I ate some food today - it might make me healthier - it might not....
Presumably millions of people ate similar foods to me today...
And they'll all have different health reactions
Can I study it?
...nope
Presumably millions of people ate similar foods to me today...
And they'll all have different health reactions
Can I study it?
...nope
I could literally go on and on for hours about all the things we don't know about our world around us - despite the fact that we *could* in theory be studying all of it.
We have loads of statistical power-tools at our disposal.
#AI is not blocked by research.
We have loads of statistical power-tools at our disposal.
#AI is not blocked by research.
#AI is blocked by the fact that computer scientists don't collaborate with social scientists to build data-sharing networks that people can trust - that are aligned to people's social good.
Btw - this is what #privacy technology is really about.
Btw - this is what #privacy technology is really about.
Anyway - I think this is the most important #AI problem to solve because all this work we've done isn't really that interesting in the real world unless:
1) data is available to solve real problems
2) the solution and the resources to create it (data) are public goods
1) data is available to solve real problems
2) the solution and the resources to create it (data) are public goods
