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by crypto420 1987 days ago
Not sure what you're talking about. Neural networks are powering a LOT of the internet.

> Siri/Cortana/Google Home/Alexa, powered by DeepSpeech+language models

> Google Search, powered by BERT

> Tesla, powered by variants of YOLO

> Facial recognition powered by MTCNN+FaceNet

> AirBnB product search+recommendations

> Amazon product recommendations

GANs are a bit artsy, but JFC they're not even a decade old - we've gone from shitty MNIST clones to fully synthetic faces in the span of 5 years!

Predictions: 1. I suspect we're going to see DeepFakes in Hollywood - famous people might license their faces to movies that they might not have the time to star in

2. People are going to start building even more powerful versions of search, like combinations of CLIP

3. Neural networks still aren't optimized for edge devices - we're going to see a deluge of cheap drones with cutting edge computer vision by default