Infer
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Now, in humans we often
infer
emotional states, as you'll hear later today, from facial expressions.
We tend to
infer
the normal function of something by what doesn't happen when we take it away, by the opposite of what we see when we take it away.
So when we take away the dopamine receptor and the flies take longer to calm down, from that we
infer
that the normal function of this receptor and dopamine is to cause the flies to calm down faster after the puff.
[27% of subjects' first 5 SSN digits identified (with 4 attempts)] But in fact, we even decided to develop an iPhone app which uses the phone's internal camera to take a shot of a subject and then upload it to a cloud and then do what I just described to you in real time: looking for a match, finding public information, trying to
infer
sensitive information, and then sending back to the phone so that it is overlaid on the face of the subject, an example of augmented reality, probably a creepy example of augmented reality.
Imagine a future in which strangers around you will look at you through their Google Glasses or, one day, their contact lenses, and use seven or eight data points about you to
infer
anything else which may be known about you.
But in fact, in a few years, organizations will know so much about us, they will be able to
infer
our desires before we even form them, and perhaps buy products on our behalf before we even know we need them.
Implicitly or explicitly, there is a narrative that all the people who are dying were somehow involved in the drug trade, and we
infer
this because they were either tortured or executed in a professional manner, or, most likely, both.
And I say, absolutely, and for me, that's success, because as a scientist, my goal is not to
infer
information about users, it's to improve the way people interact online.
We can't simply
infer
they're spacecraft.
It is not okay that we judge the contribution of our politicians by their haircuts or the size of their breasts, or to
infer
that the determination or the success of an Olympian is down to her not being a looker.
And from a couple of bars of existing music, it actually tries to
infer
what notes should come next in those tracks.
From a few bones, we
infer
the existence of dinosuars.
We could take all of the data that the cars have seen over time, the hundreds of thousands of pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles that have been out there and understand what they look like and use that to
infer
what other vehicles should look like and other pedestrians should look like.
But the main point I want to convey to you is that these robots are capable of building high-resolution maps at five centimeters resolution, allowing somebody who is outside the lab, or outside the building to deploy these without actually going inside, and trying to
infer
what happens inside the building.
Instead, we use sound to listen for features like pitch and tone and rhythm and volume to
infer
a story behind the sounds.
But with these systems, it is more complicated, and here's why: Currently, computational systems can
infer
all sorts of things about you from your digital crumbs, even if you have not disclosed those things.
They can
infer
your sexual orientation, your personality traits, your political leanings.
If I had brushed her words aside, the rest of the class could actually
infer
that this type of comment is acceptable.
In the digital world, though, persuasion architectures can be built at the scale of billions and they can target, infer, understand and be deployed at individuals one by one by figuring out your weaknesses, and they can be sent to everyone's phone private screen, so it's not visible to us.
Now, Facebook can also very easily
infer
what your politics are, even if you've never disclosed them on the site.
These algorithms can quite easily
infer
things like your people's ethnicity, religious and political views, personality traits, intelligence, happiness, use of addictive substances, parental separation, age and genders, just from Facebook likes.
So instead of an expert deciphering, step by step, a rule for every contingency, what you do now is you give the computer examples and have it
infer
its own rules.
Normally, in game playing, you would really write down all the rules, but in AlphaGo's case, the system looked over a million games and was able to
infer
its own rules and then beat the world's residing Go champion.
If we're talking about humans, we have kind of two ways we can think about what other people are thinking: we can either ask them, and sometimes they will tell us if they know, and they want us to know what they are thinking; or we can observe actions, we can observe behaviors, we can try to
infer
things about what people are thinking from their actions.
So we're kind of left with their behaviors: we can observe their actions, and we can try to
infer
what they are thinking.
And because of the way they are connected, then we are able to
infer
what each metabolite mass is, like that 180 could be glucose here, and, more importantly, to discover how changes in glucose and other metabolites lead to a disease.
And you have to
infer
what is there from these limited clues.
It is what you
infer
about that room.
Is it a mistake of the movie to
infer
most quadriplegics want to end their lives?"
It seems that some of the most important and basic plot elements are left to the viewer to
infer.
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