What could possibly go wrong when that AI becomes sentient and tries to take over the world? =) Perhaps the fear that an AI gone mad may end human civilization as we know it isn't overblown? It would be a "sexy end" for sure... but an end nevertheless.
that's when Microsoft is in real trouble. My generation grew up on Windows/Mac/Linux OSs. Its what we are used to. The young generation that lives with a smartphone in one hand and a tablet computer in the other on the other hand may reject Windows completely. That generation may want to continue to use Android or iOS as their OS of choice, except on far more powerful hardware - laptops, desktops and even graphics workstations. That, in my opinion, is where it all falls apart for MS - when Windows simply isn't the big desktop OS of choice anymore, not even in the workplace.
... it struck me as being terribly directed, with poor choice of camera angles, not very good editing and all. I just couldn't get fully immersed into the short until - I won't spoil it - a certain significant thing happened at the end. I hope that the main Bladerunner film by Dennis Villeneuve is far better directed than this. Ridley Scott's original Bladerunner was masterfully framed and lit, with many beautifully composed scenes and still looks good today. I hope that Villeneuve can live up to that mastery.
Its free, has old school 3D graphics and is shitloads of fun for a 40+ year old, because the game offers so much freedom and doesn't depend on fast reflexes like Battlefield and COD for example do. Take a look here: https://soldnersecretwars.de/m...
You click that button, and your money goes "to a better place" instantly. =) Oh and if you are on Linux or OSX, Windows 10 Super Nice Edition force installs on your computer.
If someone were to steal your online banking credentials, log in as if they are you, and try to empty out your account, this kind of system might prove useful. Unless of course you have a tennis elbow, sore arm muscles or just injured your hand, in which case you would not be able to use your own money and possibly starve to death as a result. =) Remember kids - always keep a small wad of 100s tucked away in your sock, for days when the thief-detecting-mouse-movement-algorithm thinks that YOU are not YOU. And yes, in Soviet Russia YOU are the Mouse Analysis Algorithm. =)
How fast can Snapdragon processors run Windows software? I'm sure that productivity software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice Acrobat Reader, Edge, Firefox, Chrome et cetera - will run just fine. That stuff doesn't need huge CPU power to begin with. What about something more CPU-heavy like Adobe Photoshop, AfterEffects, AutoCAD, 3D Max,Blender, Handbrake? How fast will that software run on Snapdragon? Of course this is no big problem - if ARM can't run it today, you can always run it on an Intel or AMD box. But the question remains - how fast is emulated Windows on ARM?
Set your browser to https://www.jukedeck.com/ and click "Make" in the top right corner of the screen. Once you've created an account (email required), you can start playing with AI compositions. The options are a bit limited right now - you choose genre, speed, how many seconds in the compositions peaks and so forth. Then their cloud tech composes the track and records the resulting composition through machine learning driven synthesis.This takes about a minute. They describe the tech in more detail on their research blog. This tech is clearly in its infancy. But the audio tracks created are actually quite pleasant to listen to. Not much worse than typical stock music you'd buy for video tracks.
Its in the top-right corner of my browserand IT KNOW THAT I AM HERE SHITTING ON IT. Microsoft has my Gmail's... They know EVERYTHING about me... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH... 1984 - 1984 - 1984 - 1984....
I always knew that SAAS sounded kind of "surveillancy". =) Of course if the real product is YOU, then it should be called YAAS - YOU As A Service. 10 more years of this and nobody will know who is the product, who is the service a who is the server anymore. =)
And I suspect that Windows as an OS is dying slowly, to be replaced by Android/iOS powered computing devices in the next 5 years. So Microsoft desperately needs a new "Windows" like platform - this time it is the Microsoft Cloud. They are trying desperately to shift all your shit into the Cloud, so you become DEPENDENT on using the Cloud. Once Microsoft has you in the Cloud, they will push SAAS - Software As A Service - on you hard. There won't be any significant "software" sitting on your harddrive anymore. Just little front-end "Apps" - essentially just GUIs - that connect to a cloud server back end. Of course you will have to "rent" those apps just like you have to with Adobe/Autodesk software. This means that you will have to provide things like credit card data to Microsoft, which of course Microsoft will datamine and sell to Big Data companies for a lot of money. Its "1984", just that this time, 1984 happens "in the Cloud".
Yes, I get it. Satya Nadella is from Microsoft's Cloud Division so all things MS/Windows 10 have to go "cloud" now and of course all your dataz haz to bee in ze Maikrozoft Klaud az zoon az pozzible. But here's my question: If Windows 10 as an OS cannot be trusted with very basic Privacy - phoning home all the time and such - why on earth would I put all my Gmails in the Microsoft Cloud? If I cannot trust your OS sitting on my own harddrive, why would I trust your Cloud sitting on your servers somewhere? Can you trust Google more than Microsoft? I don't know the answer to that. All I know is - if Windows 10 isn't private, your Cloud service probably isn't very private either. My 2 Cents.
... and Microsoft Windows will become a dead consumer OS. I used to game a lot on Windows PCs. For the first time I'm considering buying a Playstation 4 Pro instead.
Moorephy's Law: "If the processing power of a CPU can double every 2 years, it WILL double, and in the worst way possible. You will have a plurality of CPU cores that each want to do their own thing. And your compiler will not be able to get those cores to work with each other properly. If you code in Assembly, of course, things are very different. Your CPU cores WILL eventually learn to talk to each other, but by the time that happens in any meaningful way, you will unfortunately be a patient living in a psychiatric institution." (Moorephy's Law is licensed under the GNU Multi-Core Assembly Programming Brainfuck 3.0 license).
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... porn identifying AI watches YOUR sex acts.
Don't forget "find your horse, donkey, goat or sheep". =) No porn search option in 2017 would be complete without that capability.
Wouldn't that depend on how much Backpropagation this particular AI engages in? =)
Wouldn't that depend on how much Backpropagation the AI engages in? =)
What could possibly go wrong when that AI becomes sentient and tries to take over the world? =) Perhaps the fear that an AI gone mad may end human civilization as we know it isn't overblown? It would be a "sexy end" for sure... but an end nevertheless.
that's when Microsoft is in real trouble. My generation grew up on Windows/Mac/Linux OSs. Its what we are used to. The young generation that lives with a smartphone in one hand and a tablet computer in the other on the other hand may reject Windows completely. That generation may want to continue to use Android or iOS as their OS of choice, except on far more powerful hardware - laptops, desktops and even graphics workstations. That, in my opinion, is where it all falls apart for MS - when Windows simply isn't the big desktop OS of choice anymore, not even in the workplace.
In Soviet Russia YOU fix IT's mess. =)
And when it happens, I always feel like I may be the next big thing in tech. *grin*
... it struck me as being terribly directed, with poor choice of camera angles, not very good editing and all. I just couldn't get fully immersed into the short until - I won't spoil it - a certain significant thing happened at the end. I hope that the main Bladerunner film by Dennis Villeneuve is far better directed than this. Ridley Scott's original Bladerunner was masterfully framed and lit, with many beautifully composed scenes and still looks good today. I hope that Villeneuve can live up to that mastery.
Farcry is great, but Soldner Secret Wars is far more fun.
Its free, has old school 3D graphics and is shitloads of fun for a 40+ year old, because the game offers so much freedom and doesn't depend on fast reflexes like Battlefield and COD for example do. Take a look here: https://soldnersecretwars.de/m...
You click that button, and your money goes "to a better place" instantly. =) Oh and if you are on Linux or OSX, Windows 10 Super Nice Edition force installs on your computer.
The world should embrace Garry Kasparov. I like a man who gets beaten by an AI, but then embraces AI. =)
If someone were to steal your online banking credentials, log in as if they are you, and try to empty out your account, this kind of system might prove useful. Unless of course you have a tennis elbow, sore arm muscles or just injured your hand, in which case you would not be able to use your own money and possibly starve to death as a result. =) Remember kids - always keep a small wad of 100s tucked away in your sock, for days when the thief-detecting-mouse-movement-algorithm thinks that YOU are not YOU. And yes, in Soviet Russia YOU are the Mouse Analysis Algorithm. =)
How fast can Snapdragon processors run Windows software? I'm sure that productivity software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice Acrobat Reader, Edge, Firefox, Chrome et cetera - will run just fine. That stuff doesn't need huge CPU power to begin with. What about something more CPU-heavy like Adobe Photoshop, AfterEffects, AutoCAD, 3D Max,Blender, Handbrake? How fast will that software run on Snapdragon? Of course this is no big problem - if ARM can't run it today, you can always run it on an Intel or AMD box. But the question remains - how fast is emulated Windows on ARM?
... oh my you are handsome... Just smile into this camera for me, and I promise that your faceprint will never be stolen by hackers. =)
Set your browser to https://www.jukedeck.com/ and click "Make" in the top right corner of the screen. Once you've created an account (email required), you can start playing with AI compositions. The options are a bit limited right now - you choose genre, speed, how many seconds in the compositions peaks and so forth. Then their cloud tech composes the track and records the resulting composition through machine learning driven synthesis.This takes about a minute. They describe the tech in more detail on their research blog. This tech is clearly in its infancy. But the audio tracks created are actually quite pleasant to listen to. Not much worse than typical stock music you'd buy for video tracks.
MS wanted everybody on Windows 7 to upgrade to Win10 pronto - so they got someone to write Wannacry and release it into the wild. =)
You Sir are a Klutz... sorry... a Cloud a Cloud... You are a Cloud... A nice fluffy cloud in a blue sky, too... =)
Its in the top-right corner of my browserand IT KNOW THAT I AM HERE SHITTING ON IT. Microsoft has my Gmail's... They know EVERYTHING about me... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH... 1984 - 1984 - 1984 - 1984....
I always knew that SAAS sounded kind of "surveillancy". =) Of course if the real product is YOU, then it should be called YAAS - YOU As A Service. 10 more years of this and nobody will know who is the product, who is the service a who is the server anymore. =)
And I suspect that Windows as an OS is dying slowly, to be replaced by Android/iOS powered computing devices in the next 5 years. So Microsoft desperately needs a new "Windows" like platform - this time it is the Microsoft Cloud. They are trying desperately to shift all your shit into the Cloud, so you become DEPENDENT on using the Cloud. Once Microsoft has you in the Cloud, they will push SAAS - Software As A Service - on you hard. There won't be any significant "software" sitting on your harddrive anymore. Just little front-end "Apps" - essentially just GUIs - that connect to a cloud server back end. Of course you will have to "rent" those apps just like you have to with Adobe/Autodesk software. This means that you will have to provide things like credit card data to Microsoft, which of course Microsoft will datamine and sell to Big Data companies for a lot of money. Its "1984", just that this time, 1984 happens "in the Cloud".
Yes, I get it. Satya Nadella is from Microsoft's Cloud Division so all things MS/Windows 10 have to go "cloud" now and of course all your dataz haz to bee in ze Maikrozoft Klaud az zoon az pozzible. But here's my question: If Windows 10 as an OS cannot be trusted with very basic Privacy - phoning home all the time and such - why on earth would I put all my Gmails in the Microsoft Cloud? If I cannot trust your OS sitting on my own harddrive, why would I trust your Cloud sitting on your servers somewhere? Can you trust Google more than Microsoft? I don't know the answer to that. All I know is - if Windows 10 isn't private, your Cloud service probably isn't very private either. My 2 Cents.
... and Microsoft Windows will become a dead consumer OS. I used to game a lot on Windows PCs. For the first time I'm considering buying a Playstation 4 Pro instead.
Moorephy's Law: "If the processing power of a CPU can double every 2 years, it WILL double, and in the worst way possible. You will have a plurality of CPU cores that each want to do their own thing. And your compiler will not be able to get those cores to work with each other properly. If you code in Assembly, of course, things are very different. Your CPU cores WILL eventually learn to talk to each other, but by the time that happens in any meaningful way, you will unfortunately be a patient living in a psychiatric institution." (Moorephy's Law is licensed under the GNU Multi-Core Assembly Programming Brainfuck 3.0 license).