Hey Zuck We Built Your Office AI

http://blog.algorithmia.com/hey-zuck-we-built-your-facial-recognition-ai/

by madrafi • 10 years ago

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vessenes• 10 years ago

This is so awesome. I want you guys to package it up and sell it for $5.99. Or $1.99/month. I would buy if it were zero config; we've got lots of tablets lying around and would hack it into plenty of different use cases if it were up and running.

At any rate, nice work!

cbsmith• 10 years ago

I don't think Zuck or anyone else thought that the AI demoed was particularly hard to build...

Splendor• 10 years ago

"We have some cleanup to do on the code before we’re ready to share the sample app"

Has this been shared now?

sfblah• 10 years ago

This isn't a good idea. Productize it.

throwaway2016a• 10 years ago

I wrote a similar system for my own home quite a while ago. It didn't have all the features of Zuckerberg's but it had a lot of things it doesn't too.

The real mystery is why do all the existing home automation systems kind of stink. Although it's not much of a mystery, it's because every company wants to be proprietary and no one wants to work together because if the system is closed they can get you to buy their hardware exclusively.

jbpetersen3• 10 years ago

I'm waiting for pay-as-you-go automation services with good federation between them. That's the only model I see being practical long-term.

bryanrasmussen2• 10 years ago

Yes - then the single home automation service can be free, and all the functionalities of the system aside from the basic play music one will be unlockable as you pay.

Then whenever you walk into a room that is dark you can get a message on your smart phone - 'access automatic light control for only $.99 a month!'

hmm, maybe I'm cynical.

exclusiv• 10 years ago

Smartthings allows users to write integrations for devices that aren't Samsung. I use quite a few community contributions.

vogt2• 10 years ago

Phenomenal, very cool. Publicly announcing the arrival of everyone in Slack seems a little gross if for instance someone has special circumstances which require them to come in later that may not need to be public information. Or could potentially brood that weird competitive mindset of "I'm the best because I show up at 7:30 when everyone else comes in at 9-9:15, even though I may not be the most skilled". It is definitely fair to say that this stuff being a problem is indicative of something deeper in the office culture anyway, though.

Other than that I love this and 10/10 would pay for it on a monthly basis.

Waterluvian• 10 years ago

That's always my fear about one day working for a big company. I'm not a good drone. I'm probably the most firable person if you look at me on metrics alone.

vogt2• 10 years ago

I work for a company of ~120 people who are owned by a fairly giant company (I think ~5000 but could be way off, I forget) and we don't treat people that way. You really have to work hard to vet the environment you're going into as an employee, but it pays unlimited dividends when you get it right. It has taken me several times now.

usgroup• 10 years ago

Expounding the benefits of humans living like machines so that machines might be more useful to humans. I think the carrot is very much that we are subduing time to our control.

Maybe this is the way it should all go ... but the depths of me resonate much more with finding the simple ways to be in harmony with the world.

Akin to a closed form formula where an algorithm may have been.

frik• 10 years ago

Zuck is right (and before Gates in 1995 "The Road Ahead" book). We need a common API, so that AI agents can interact with various types of hardware (home automation, IoT) as well as other AI agents over the internet.

I propose we should use JSON rest based simple API with simple english words. To agree on things, AI agents should be able to bid against each other, like in auctions.

In Bill 1995 vision, every interaction costs (micro payment). We all learned how the free internet with WWW sponsored by advertisement et al won over his pay-as-you-go The Microsoft Network as found in Win95. But how will advertisement work with agents? How will big search engine providers get payed in an mainly AI environment. This has to be solved. Also Zuck and Bill wanted to have their own locally installed agent on their own hardware, something that has charm but is contrary to 2010s trend of software-as-service/cloud. But I can imagine that in a few years, our personslized AI agents surf the internet and interact with other agents, and we less and less visit websites or apps ourself, but directly interact with our agent.

Hey Zuck We Built Your Office AI

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