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by gravity_123 2766 days ago
Privacy is a double edged sword and apple has taken the other side of it compared to most other companies. Doing good ai while being privacy conscious is not easy, huge props to them and hope they succeed.
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> Doing good ai while being privacy conscious is not easy

Is this fact or do we just think this because the only companies who have put resources into AI are companies that doesn't give a shit about your privacy (because they use it for their other products)?

This seems fairly obvious - good ai can do things like predict what you want, understand your speech, understand your intent, etc. All this requires tons of personal data. And any amount of personal data can be difficult to keep secure/used ethically/etc.
> good ai can do things like predict what you want, understand your speech, understand your intent, etc.

It can be used for those things, or entirely different things that don't have anything to do with private data. It's not hard to not do these things just because it's possible to do them.

It’s possible to personalize experiences without storing information that leads to a personal identification. I’m not saying it’s easy to walk that line, but it is possible.
Keep secure sure (although the same is true of all personal data not just that related to AI) but ethical use is not a computer science problem.
Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but anonymization while still having the data be useful for deep learning seems computer science-related.
Making it even more difficult :)