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Bro, do you even dictionary? It does have a defined meaning and it's not machine consciousness. For fucks sake, that's science fiction and only science fiction. It's not the common meaning of the term. It's not what "AI researchers" research. It's fanwank. Get over it.

1 : a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers

2 : the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

From the goddamned dictionary, you fucktard:

"the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

This is what the term has meant since it was first used, and what it still means today. It just so happens that a lot more software development today is directly aimed at imitating intelligent human behavior than in previous years, so the term is used more often.

Them's the facts. Deal with it.

Synthetic Intelligence is coming. It will emerge from the current set of human behaviors and incentives to behave. Each actor will play a small part in this big picture, and no amount of lobbying or social engineering can stop it.

Artificial Intelligence, by definition, is about imitating human intelligence. These machines will only imitate us when they are playing dumb. We are about to blow the roof off of intelligence, and the world that creates will be amazing!

Don't kid yourself. The familiar sense of how machine intelligence works and what it can't do is temporary. People think true synthetic intelligence is impossible precisely because they aren't thinking. Look at the big picture. Look at the explosive rate of progress this enterprise is experiencing, after millions of years of not existing at all. Drop the emotional biases that rob you of your objectivity and you will see this simple truth.

We will create synthetic intelligence, and it will lead us to our destiny. Count on it.

Merriam Webster disagrees with you.

Dido

FYI, the word is "ditto".

I'd love to get the money back that i spend on 'police' so i can instead buy another gun or maybe a personal body guard, either way the private sector would deliver me far superior security than i get from the state for 'free'.

Oh please, please, PLEASE implement this. It is so much easier to kill one or two people and seize everything they have than it is to avoid, overcome, or defeat an entire police force.

What you really want is police protection without paying for it, and perhaps some more guns. If you could truly choose to be an old timey outlaw,, i.e., someone who is excluded from the protection of the law, you wouldn't have the balls to take us up on it.

The players get to keep items comped by the casino. Bad call. The casino "comp"ensates you for playing a game that they are favored in. They were cheating. The players broke their obligation.

The Casino comps you to keep you playing, assuming you'll eventually lose. That their assumption was wrong doesn't change the offer of free goods. Next you'll tell me that if I take a "Free test drive" I'm obligated to buy the car, or I stole the test drive, because the dealership assumed I'd like their piece of shit. It was "comp"limentary, not "comp"ensation. https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Anti trust implies controlling prices to the detriment of the consumer. Apple in no way sets or controls the pricing. An app developer is free to charge whatever they want or make it free.

IANAL, but I believe where antitrust charge comes into play is not in the control of pricing, but the control of access to the market. They have created a monopoly where they can dictate terms, fees, and other aspects of the market because the only path to that market is via their storefront.

M-W has nothing specifically about price control in their definition.

+1 for being the only person in this thread to spell ordnance correctly.

I always thought that Yahoo was well-named, a company run by a bunch of Yahoos...

I know, right? (For those that don't get it, here's what the word yahoo actually means when not yelled by a cowboy.)

To the guy in the summary who said: "I'm old enough to remember when Yahoo was a series of directories on a University's computers"... well, I'm old enough to remember when 'yahoo' was a name for a boorish idiot.

Aesthetic Distance means never having to not enjoy a dramatic presentation.

You can screw up and lose all the entertainment value by looking too closely. That's always been the deal.

But this is a nerd site, so we're the people who ran the movie projector in Jr. High School; we always had to be immersed a layer too deep in the presentation.

In this case, the USSR is correct in its naming, and in calling itself socialist. Socialism is defined (among other things) as, ( and I quote ):

any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

...and if the USSR was good at anything (besides purges), it was good at government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Multiple meanings.
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

loan - transitive verb : lend

"The verb loan is one of the words English settlers brought to America and continued to use after it had died out in Britain. Its use was soon noticed by British visitors and somewhat later by the New England literati, who considered it a bit provincial. It was flatly declared wrong in 1870 by a popular commentator, who based his objection on etymology. A later scholar showed that the commentator was ignorant of Old English and thus unsound in his objection, but by then it was too late, as the condemnation had been picked up by many other commentators."

There are actually some people who are either happy or at least nonplussed to be alone.

They are either happy or at least baffled or perplexed to be alone?

...Usage Discussion of less

The traditional view is that less applies to matters of degree, value, or amount and modifies collective nouns, mass nouns, or nouns denoting an abstract whole while fewer applies to matters of number and modifies plural nouns. Less has been used to modify plural nouns since the days of King Alfred and the usage, though roundly decried, appears to be increasing. Less is more likely than fewer to modify plural nouns when distances, sums of money, and a few fixed phrases are involved and as likely as fewer to modify periods of time ....

China doesn't have a first amendment, so it's not censorship.

Nice try. Censorship is simply defined as the act by an official of regulating access or editing content that is deemed objectionable or sensitive. Whether content meets these criteria is based only on a judgement call, there is nothing in the definition that says it has to be legally based.

Even if it were, it's being enacted by the comms operators, which some will say makes it not matter since the first amdemnenenent only impacts the government.

Likewise, the "official" is simply the individual who is tasked with carrying out this action, anyone can be in this role, not just government agents. So that would make an employee of the provider just as much an "official". Same with volunteer moderators on any internet message board. If they have the power and are sanctioned to use it for that purpose by the people in charge, they are officials.

Also, big oops on your part: China's telecom companies are state-owned. That technically means all the provider employees are government employees.

You forgot demagogue. But if you really want to look at the definition, would this not apply to practically all politicians seeking or currently holding office. All pretty much pander to the masses through lying, deceit, subterfuge, fear mongering, etc....

See: http://www.merriam-webster.com...

I know it's been fashionable within parts of the Right for a while now to try to change the deffinition of feminism and make it alllll about oppressing us delicate men but let's try to get back to what words really mean.

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

Full Definition of feminism
1
: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
2
: organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests

alien Simple Definition of alien : not familiar or like other things you have known : different from what you are used to : from another country : too different from something to be acceptable or suitable

According to the law and Webster Dictionary, they are Illegal aliens, so stop trying to make them something they are not.

Besides it just seems odd to call them Undocumented Immigrant votes. It almost seems that they are allowed to vote but are not documented. Oh wait that is what they want!!!! Stupid me, for calling a book a book, a dog a dog, a pig a pig, etc.....

It is much easier to associate them with the fact that they are NOT in the US legally thus illegal and alien (from another country).

No, but accusing him of "conspir[ing] with foreign governments to defraud the American public" is, given what we actually know.

Bigot: one who is intolerant or hostile towards different social groups. Trump != social group. The end.

she doesn't have any kind of coherent agenda or vision

Yeah, incoherent. . . compared to Trump's coherent policies

Unless you have actually gone through and changed your citizenship, you haven't lived "as an immigrant"

Not citizenship, but permanent residence. I had Japanese permanent residence.

Well, I suppose if Japanese is your native language, it is no wonder that you have such queer notions about identity and racism; Japan is one of the most xenophobic and racist countries I have ever spent time in.

English is my native language. Funny. . . saying an entire nation is racist is, in itself, a very racist thing to say. Maybe if you were not so quick to judge your experience in Japan would have been different.

Which demographic would that be? Democrats just lost the House, the Senate, the presidency, and with that, the supreme court, so don't hold your breath.

Straight white male. You think ideology matters in Trump's America? This is about the "master" tribe, which people like you are not allowed to become "citizens" of. . . I despise this mentality, but I think I have seen it more than someone with your characteristics might have been exposed to. I feel like only that can explain how you seem to see Trump in such a naive light.

You accuse people of racism, xenophobia, and fraud for the flimsiest of reasons and express your disapproval and condemnation

No, I accuse Trump for what he himself has SAID. . . I am intolerant of unilateral intolerance.

Well, I'm accusing you of being a progressive and a Democrat; you certainly sound like one. And while you obviously don't understand why that offends people, I think it's important to make it crystal clear to you that it does. Perhaps that will induce people like you to reflect a bit on what you're saying and advocating, because obviously reason isn't getting through to you.

I am neither, but I don't want to get too ambitious here. . . if I can get you to make a single post where you properly use the term "bigot", I will consider this entire thread a yuuuge success.

Reading through your posts, I really feel like you are having this conversation with someone else. . . maybe someone in your past. . . maybe your parents. . . Anyway, I am not that person, but I hope you were able to find some kind of resolve. Seems like you really needed it. . .

So very sorry

It's not a fscking TV, it's a phone, and a bezel is a feature, not a drawback.

It's not a feature - it's a design compromise. The original purpose of a bezel has nothing to do with gripping a device. Bezels exist to hold the face of the device in place. The fact that it can help in some cases with gripping the phone securely without accidentally triggering the touch screen is a side benefit that has been actively exploited. Nobody actually wants the bezel but it turned out to have some utility due to other design decisions. It's perfectly possible to make a phone with basically zero bezel which still can be gripped securely - it would just look different than what we are used to.

Perhaps you should educate yourself, as literally has literally changed definitions due to the public's misuse of the word.

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

Definition of literally
1: in a literal sense or manner : actually "took the remark literally" "was literally insane"
2: in effect : virtually "will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — Norman Cousins"

Are you capable of reading the dictionary?

Full Definition of artificial intelligence
1: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers
2: the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

See? AI is imitation. "TRUE" AI is just imitation. That's all it needs to be to qualify as "AI."

We have true AI. Today. And it gets better every day. You post your stupid "this isn't AI" comment with every single story about it, and you are dead wrong every single time. I predict that in every future article about AI, you will post the same inane comment, and you will be wrong then, too.

So, a calculator could be considered AI because it can imitate a human calculating basic addition.

Are you capable of reading the dictionary?

Full Definition of artificial intelligence 1: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers 2: the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

See? AI is imitation. "TRUE" AI is just imitation. That's all it needs to be to qualify as "AI."

We have true AI. Today. And it gets better every day. You post your stupid "this isn't AI" comment with every single story about it, and you are dead wrong every single time. I predict that in every future article about AI, you will post the same inane comment, and you will be wrong then, too.

+1. Once it is no longer imitation we should drop the A from AI. At that point it is just intelligence.

Are you capable of reading the dictionary?

Full Definition of artificial intelligence
1: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers
2: the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

See? AI is imitation. "TRUE" AI is just imitation. That's all it needs to be to qualify as "AI."

We have true AI. Today. And it gets better every day. You post your stupid "this isn't AI" comment with every single story about it, and you are dead wrong every single time. I predict that in every future article about AI, you will post the same inane comment, and you will be wrong then, too.

From the dictionary:

  Full Definition of artificial intelligence

        1: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers

        2: the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

So you see, "pattern matching" exactly fits this definition. Pattern matching is something that humans do a lot, so making a computer do it absolutely qualifies as "imitating human behavior."

This is what "artificial intelligence" actually means, whether you are sick of it or not.

And I'm pretty sure some semi-literate just misspelled "scapegoat".

And here is the goddamn link.

Encouraging more domestic IT/programming workers to enter the field will only exasperate that, regardless of their plumbing.

Now that this has scrolled off, the word you are looking for is exacerbate. http://www.merriam-webster.com...

        transitive verb

        : to make more violent, bitter, or severe transitive verb

        : to make more violent, bitter, or severe e.g. the new law only exacerbates the problem.

Just trying to be helpful.

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

impaired
adjective imÂpaired \-Ëperd\
Definition of impaired

        : being in a less than perfect or whole condition: as
a : disabled or functionally defective â"often used in combination
b : intoxicated by alcohol or narcotics

Kill yourself. You are literally wasting resources better used for an old lady's cats.

lets not get into a fruitless semantic discussion

I'm not giving you a free pass to use words in contradiction with their actual meaning.

Driving around a bad black neighborhood in a car with KKK-markings and slogans printed on it.

And how do you think the media would have reacted if the Trump campaign did something like this to elicit a violent response?

only one of them is actively inciting violence

And this is where I insist you use correct terminology. What you are trying to say is only one of them is directly advocating others to commit violence, but you're using much looser language that actually describes what happened and then saying it didn't happen. Words have meaning, use them correctly.

you agree that a sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes

What is "sizable"? My point, since you're trying to score political points against Trump, is that the anti-Trump violence is worse and gets much less coverage. You haven't disputed that.

lets not get into a fruitless semantic discussion

I'm not giving you a free pass to use words in contradiction with their actual meaning.

Driving around a bad black neighborhood in a car with KKK-markings and slogans printed on it.

And how do you think the media would have reacted if the Trump campaign did something like this to elicit a violent response?

only one of them is actively inciting violence

And this is where I insist you use correct terminology. What you are trying to say is only one of them is directly advocating others to commit violence, but you're using much looser language that actually describes what happened and then saying it didn't happen. Words have meaning, use them correctly.

you agree that a sizable portion of Trump-supporters are still mean-spirited violent assholes

What is "sizable"? My point, since you're trying to score political points against Trump, is that the anti-Trump violence is worse and gets much less coverage. You haven't disputed that.

From the goddamn dictionary:

Hacker: a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage, etc. : a person who hacks into a computer system

You are dead wrong. And I don't know where you got the idea that you get to dictate what worlds mean. You don't control the world, and you certainly don't control the English language.

Fucking moron.

From merriam-webster, artificial intelligence is:

1
: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers
2
: the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

this business of "tricking people" isn't core to the definition, but merely a means of testing for it. Including human flaws is not a necessary component of AI. Intelligent behavior can be flawless, and still qualify as intelligent.

You are playing a silly semantic game.

I might have unnecessarily put "ir" in front of "regardless", but you unnecessarily put a hyphen in nonstandard in a GRAMMAR NAZIS POST. I mean, come on!

irregardless == regardless

Guess you can tell your grandchildren that you were being a grammar Nazis when the Trump Nazis' took over. . .

transfer can mean it is copied
to print or otherwise copy from one surface to another by contact

"transfer" doesn't mean it's not still at the original location
transfer to print or otherwise copy from one surface to another by contact

Take to obtain or secure for use

I guess it was very convenient for you to leave out the header of the verb phrase "to obtain or secure for use". The header limits this option to: "to transfer into one's own keeping". And "transfer" means remove from one place and add to another place.

Although you tried to define "copyright infringement" as stealing, I guess, you did not succeeded yet. Try again :)

Thief:
a person who steals something

Steal:
to take (something that does not belong to you) in a way that is wrong or illegal
to take (something that you are not supposed to have) without asking for permission
to wrongly take and use (another person's idea, words, etc.)

Take
to obtain or secure for use

So, yes, I would say "thief" is appropriate.

Thief:
a person who steals something

Steal:
to take (something that does not belong to you) in a way that is wrong or illegal
to take (something that you are not supposed to have) without asking for permission
to wrongly take and use (another person's idea, words, etc.)

Take
to obtain or secure for use

So, yes, I would say "thief" is appropriate.

Thief:
a person who steals something

Steal:
to take (something that does not belong to you) in a way that is wrong or illegal
to take (something that you are not supposed to have) without asking for permission
to wrongly take and use (another person's idea, words, etc.)

Take
to obtain or secure for use

So, yes, I would say "thief" is appropriate.

The correct sentece is: "Is the boat fast?"

It fits both meanings. " Full Definition of fast 1 a : firmly fixed b : tightly shut c : adhering firmly d : not easily freed : stuck e : stable
Link

How ironic:

"epicly stupid".

https://en.oxforddictionaries....
http://www.merriam-webster.com...

the "lessor of two evils"

Who leases two evils?

Wrong again. Decamp (not that you will ever catch that word escaping my lips) is to break up a camp. Not to depart from a camp. This was actually the original meaning of the word "deplane", to make something cease to be a plane.

Parkways are where you drive and driveways are where you park.

Deplane is in the dictionary and is a real word, despite your unfamiliarity with it.

English isn't all that logical, so stop making an idiot yourself by pretending that it is and complaining when you see a word you don't agree with.