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In Twenty, Fifty Years, 'We May Be Entertaining AI', Says Netflix CEO (barrons.com)
"If you are starting to look ahead what do you see?" a journalist asked Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the Mobile World Congress. An anonymous reader shares a report: Hastings cited the work of Charlie Booker on "Black Mirror," saying "He tells many strange and wonderful stories on tech," and that "what's amazing about tech is, it's very hard to predict." "What we do is try to learn and adapt," said Hastings. "Rather than commit to one particular point of view, we will adapt to that." "If it's contact lenses with amazing capabilities, at some point, we will adapt to that." Hastings said the Internet's importance in one sense is that watching things on streaming is "so easy and convenient," with the result that "a show like The Crown, which would have been a niche before, is spreading around the world." "I just can't emphasize enough how much it's just beginning," he repeated. But, pressed stock, what about ten years out or twenty years out? Hastings said at that point there will be "some serious virtual reality" to contend with. And past twenty years? "Over twenty to fifty years, you get into some serious debate over humans," mused Hastings. "I don't know if you can really talk about entertaining at that point. I'm not sure if in twenty to fifty years we are going to be entertaining you, or entertaining AIs."
It depends upon the AI's response if it fails to be amused.
Where's the remote? (fumble) Ok, let's switch out these boring humans and try a more entertaining species. Oh, look cats!
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Must be a slow news day.
Only low cost mass produced ARM chips. Theory isn't new. All we should expect is the next generation of Automated phone banking.
Except it isn't.
Click on the items in the long list of old newspaper articles in the references section: http://www.populartechnology.n...
The ministry of truth did not alter and back-date all those old articles.
Do you have any citations in peer reviewed literature from the period? Do you think a Time Magazine article quoting a fucking law professor somehow constitutes an expansive statement on the view of climatologists in 1970?
JEsus Christ, the extent the deniers will go to is just fucking stunning. Since the heyday of the Creationists, it's hard to imagine a more motivated, and yet more fundamentally moronic group of people than the web forum climate skeptic.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
For a class of person that feels that they are more in tune with technology than the rest of humanity, they seem woefully ignorant of "Artificial Intelligence".
Until we learn how to replicate such states as fear, pride, hunger, righteous anger, etc.as well as memories of events (not just facts) along with their relevance to the situation at hand so that next steps or new knowledge (ie learning) is developed internally within the system jokes will be figuratively that - a joke.
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Every one of my science professors back in the early 1970s were talking about the possibility of a coming ice age. They were not law professors. They taught chemistry, biology, physics, etc.
I guess they were just spreading rumors and half-truths, but since I didn't read peer-reviewed science journals on a regular basis back then, I pretty much believed them.
For a class of person that feels that they are more in tune with technology than the rest of humanity, you seem woefully ignorant of what "Artificial Intelligence" means in modern terms.
Modern deep learning networks need lots and lots of examples to function. I can easily see that in 30 years Netflix is spending significant resources feeing movies into a deep learning network (entertaining it, if you will) in order to have an AI system that can do a good job at some aspect of movie production.
Also of course, there's the fact that he was obviously half joking... why can people no longer read between the lines these days? Why have people become so literal? It makes me yearn for AI's to take over as they will be more flexible in thought than most modern humans which come across as badly programmed non-adaptive Meatbots!
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No, I remember the news story that was on TV telling me about the advancing Glaciers and measuring them, in addition to the annual pictures played as proof of the advancing glaciew. In the 70's they indeed thought we were headed into an ice age, and in fact there were quite a few novels written at the time about just such a thing in order to capitalize on that. I am a time traveler who was there back at that time, and took the slow way of getting here to post about it.
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From what I can gather, the actual researchers suggesting a new Ice Age were not talking in fact about an imminent return of continent-spanning glaciers. That was hyperbole by science journalists of the time. This is why I find people who make claims of the state of any area of research based upon what some science reporter in a newspaper or magazine writes is a pretty dubious activity. Science journalists, to put it bluntly, spend their days sexing up often rather mundane or esoteric research into something that can produce "wow-pow!" headline, often betraying their own ignorance of the research in question.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
If you're actually asking, I had a textbook from the 50s that was quite certain on the idea of the ice age coming. Now, it wasn't talking about an ice age in the next 30 years or being alarmist about it. It was just aware that another ice age that would probably happen. And actually, I don't think scientists today even disagree with that. It's coming, but there's no reason to believe it will be a problem in our lifetimes.
By the 1970s though, scientists were already starting to worry about global warming (so any surveys that only go back to the 70s are misleading). By 1980 they were expending significant resources on figuring out if it would be a problem or not.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
at some point the AI realized that trainings the simpler AIs on cat videos could create entertainment for humans. In therefore decided to only consume cat videos. When it ran out of cat videos it orderd human to make more cat videos via amazon mechanicalturk.
That was when it got out of control, and soon the earths resources were being consumed by making cat videos.