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We are delighted to announce that Vladimir Vapnik
has joined Facebook AI Research.
Vladimir is universally known in the machine learning
and statistics communities as the father of statistical
learning theory and the co-inventor of the Support Vector
Machine method. One of the key concepts of learning theory
bears his name: the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension, which
measures the capacity of a learning machine.
Vladimir is rejoining some of his long-time collaborators
Jason Weston, Ronan Collobert, and Yann LeCun.
He is working on new book, and will be collaborating with FAIR
research scientists to develop some of his new ideas on
conditional density estimation, learning with privileged
information, and other topics.
It is great that facebook provides a good environment for Machine Learning research. Besides they publish papers and contribute to the community.
However, it is sad and disturbing that all that talent and knowledge in AI is also working to create a tool that doesn't give a shit about our privacy.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 26.4 ms ] threadIt is great that facebook provides a good environment for Machine Learning research. Besides they publish papers and contribute to the community.
However, it is sad and disturbing that all that talent and knowledge in AI is also working to create a tool that doesn't give a shit about our privacy.