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#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Impact of Machine Learning on Social Networks

I'm actually just fascinated by how hard this problem is. There are fundamental issues at Facebook in tone and in an approach of how product gets built or the objective functions. One cannot, one cannot separate the two. It can feel really frustrating to feel if you're internally internal there that you're working on something completely unrelated. But there's some responsibility still. You have to know it's like the right value of thing. The obvious answers are climate change and energy consumption. I mean, they've done resource planning for servers for peak load using reinforcement learning. That's super interesting.

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