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[–] [email protected] 83 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Link for those who don't get the Silicon Valley reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIci3C4JkL0

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Absolutely not. Croissants are toast, or more specifically, muffins.

A bearclaw is a calzone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

angry Ben Wyatt sounds

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I toasted a croissant today and now I'm not sure what to call that

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Croissants are butter scones, which basically makes them American biscuits!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Jin Yaaaaaaaaang!

[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Silicon Valley will build an AI system to solve cancer and use it just to show you more ads under your eyelids.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Why take the effort to dream when you can see the latest deals all night long for just 1.99$ a month! (unsubscription requires a small one time payment of 500$. original eyelids can be bought back separately)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In case it wasn't clear, the title is referring to the show of the same name, not the region/tech culture.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Since you don't quite understand: the show is an accurate parody of the real phenomenon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I'm quite aware. But the show literal has a story arc about a program made to distinguish photos of food that ends up used for...something else, let's say.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they are probably talking about skin cancer. that application was probably one the first things that came out of conv networks, by now it is so main stream you can probably give it as an exercise in an AI tutorial

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Yup, machine learning 101 we built a neural net to identify breast cancer. Non story.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Was people mistaking bears for baked good a common enough problem that it required an AI driven solution?

Edit: wait waaaaaait. Bear Claws are also a type of baked good.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Edit: wait waaaaaait. Bear Claws are also a type of baked good.

Yes! And they're delicious.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How does this even get discovered? Like they're pointing a camera at a croissant and the AI says "I don't know what that bread based food is but the guy holding it has melanoma". I just can't figure out how those two tests overlapped at all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They likely changed the ~~model~~ AI and did some additional training on cancer data. The first thing you do in machine learning 101 is build ~~a neural network~~ an AI that can identify breast cancer. This is such a non story meant to mislead those who are not aware of how it works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You realize most people are not aware of how it works, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why else would I leave a comment explaining it? I did not mean to be condescending and hoped it was obvious my annoyance was at the article.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would imagine once it gets good at distinguishing things like various kinds of baked goods (which is actually really tough, I'd imagine), then you start exploring what other challenges it can solve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm guessing something to do with either yeast or protein.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

A guy/gal who studies cancer cells went to a bakery in Japan. (S)he quickly went, "if that computer can tell all these baked goods apart...."

I read an article about ages back.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

"Shoot for the waste basket, if you miss you might land on the stars"

There I fixed it for you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone has a link to the original news ? Is that real ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It's real but not actually worth the headline. AI picks up patterns in data and they just changed the data to be cancer data. One of the first things you do in machine learning class.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Why did they even think of trying to show it images of cancer cells?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oopsy Doopsy...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

the Japanese for ya