Maintaining state has been the holy grail and tar baby of AI and advertising. You can't think about much without it, and you can't respond well with much of it. Advertisers need just enough of 'state' to justify their existence, e.g., "Our reader, John, saw our ad and bought your product!" But if they get too much, they can find their revenue source compromised, e.g., "80 million other viewers did not."
While, as mere humans, we are probably incapable of changing the planet for the 'better,' no one should underestimate our capacity for screwing it up.
The important difference between religon and science -- science is about learing what works and can be used to do something new: save a life, kill a lot of lives, change the world or conquer it; while religion is about living with the unknown and accepting life as it is. Until we know everything, there will be room for both.
Just in - Santa is not real! Neither is the Easter Bunny! Most "branded" PC motherboards are cost-cutting versions of Intel reference designs!! Glass crystal is an oxymoron!!! I did not have sex with your wife TODAY!!!!
How about those Tea Parties too? ACORN? Fox News? Jon Stewart? The New York Times? Wall Street Journal? Of course, the Supreme Court? And most importantly, is Argentinian agent Mark Sanford gonna sign up? If he doesn't, Jenny will bust him.
In 1998 they were all behind IEEE1394, which had very good link-level copy-protection. It was going to tie all the home theater components together. Sony made one TV with it, calling their version iLink. Then Intel turned its back on it, favoring USB 2.0, and that was the end of it. Even Apple, who owns many if the patents (calling it Firewire), has backed away from it.
Machines will only 'think' like humans when they have human emotions. All reasoning and abstract thought are based on emotions, which were the basis of all human interaction for countless millennia before humans spoke words. We will never believe that machines or anything else can be 'human-like' unless we feel it. Just look at the Loebner contest (http://www.loebner.net). Since there is no machine algorithm for this test (duh!), they use people to make subjective decisions as to whether unseen respondents 'seem' human. If the responses do not 'seem' right, then the respondent does not pass. It is amazing how many humans (used as controls) do not pass this Turing test, giving new meaning to "you don't feel right to me." Without human feelings there would be no human reasoning, no 'intelligence.' If this reasoning really bothers you, then you have helped prove my point.
As for these AI guys, their conclusions are something of a paradox. If they are as wrong as some believe and dumb as others say, then it may not take much more to create a machine to be as 'intelligent.' Their question may be better put, "when will we feel that humans have become as dumb as their machines?"
My God! If that is porn, then don't read Sports Illustrated, Ladies Home Journal, and certain not the Daily Mail. Then again, he was looking at them at work AND got caught on tape. Therefore, he should be tried, sentenced, convicted, and executed Internet-style, then promptly forgotten.
I have a rule that has served me well -- whatever I seriously estimate for a project's duration, the first half will take 80% of that time. Then half of the remaining project will take another 80%. After that, half of the remaining project will take another 80%. This regression continues into perpetuity. Eventually, it is decided to declare the project complete and live with what got done. Therefore, I have always planned a product to only encompass that which could be done in the "first half" of the project. If that was not enough for the product, then it was not feasible.
Another rule of thumb for tech products, if the project slips more than 50% beyond its targeted release date, then break up the team. The team that slips this much will never keep up with the market.
Is that all? Then he was not rich, merely disappointed at being an American 'millionaire' ('million' once meant something else in England). Wall Street investment bankers spend more at the bar on New Year's Eve and still do not dent their year-end bonuses.
About 13 years ago, the government of China contacted Cisco through its Hong Kong office and said "China has been very good to Cisco. Now it is time for Cisco to be very good to China." They forced Cisco to open factories in China, and China started a company later known as Huawei, run by some army generals. The Internet was becoming a major communications component of their country, both private and government, and they did not like the idea that their infrastructure would be made in America. Once Cisco opened their Chinese factories, someone in China began almost immediately cloning Cisco hardware. I wonder who? The clones were so close that they even had the same bugs.
Cisco seemed to put up with this for a while, since almost all of the hardware was kept within China. Then, sometime in the last ten years, I can't remember when, Huawei started selling Cisco-like hardware worldwide. At that point, Cisco sued and forced them to stop all international sales of the disputed products. Later, Huawei rewrote its router code and even licensed code from another American company.
So, what to do with all that surplus manufacturing capacity?
People around RF welders have serious shielding, and most plastics welding is automated. There have been 'accidents' such as seared skin, blindness, and neurological disorders among those who worked around these welders. Of course, we haven't heard much about them. Then again, we had not heard about brain injuries to football players for over 100 years.
With all widely accepted software technologies, the customer base demands "more, more, more," and the products get fat from all the features. Flash is just the most recent 'mature' technology -- e.g., DOS, Windows, Office, Adobe CS4, Adaptec/Sonic/Roxio CD/DVD/BluRay Creator, AutoCAD, and TurboTax (originally on the Commodore64). Even Linux is starting to look a little thick around the middle. As for those that don't grow, is anyone using Minix?
In spite of what one might think, all human thought is tied to emotions, no matter how abstract the concept or complex the formula. Boyden's assertion is true for the machines because it is true for the humans that built them. If these assertions upset you, thanks for proving my point. If it seems implausible that a 'few' 'primitive' emotions could create an infinite amount of abstraction, think about the fact that most human knowledge is now stored and communicated as 0s and 1s.
It sounds almost as good as paying $2,000 for a root canal. I hope they charge 10 cents per word, just like the good old days. And I hope they hire George W. Bush as their news editor and the Taliabanana (not what you think) news team.
Perhaps a more personal story is the life of Jon Postel, one of the creators of the DNS and the first top level domain administrator. There is a good story about how he held this position almost until his untimely death and the infamous DNS root incident that occurred shortly after he died.
I had also heard that Jon held the domains a.com thru z.com. If he had lived into this century, he could have retired on the money that he could have sold them.
BTW, I believe that most OSes still can have a hosts.txt file. I wonder if it is still possible to spoof a client by creating a bogus file.
This REALLY looks like virtual snuff porn. You should be virtually convicted of virtually snuffing the virtual hang man. A virtual life sentence! Such virtue!
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Maintaining state has been the holy grail and tar baby of AI and advertising. You can't think about much without it, and you can't respond well with much of it. Advertisers need just enough of 'state' to justify their existence, e.g., "Our reader, John, saw our ad and bought your product!" But if they get too much, they can find their revenue source compromised, e.g., "80 million other viewers did not."
While, as mere humans, we are probably incapable of changing the planet for the 'better,' no one should underestimate our capacity for screwing it up. The important difference between religon and science -- science is about learing what works and can be used to do something new: save a life, kill a lot of lives, change the world or conquer it; while religion is about living with the unknown and accepting life as it is. Until we know everything, there will be room for both.
Just in - Santa is not real! Neither is the Easter Bunny! Most "branded" PC motherboards are cost-cutting versions of Intel reference designs!! Glass crystal is an oxymoron!!! I did not have sex with your wife TODAY!!!!
Depends on how you look at it too. One user's fatal flaw is another's feature. For example, DRM.
If they had been busting snowball throwers when I was their age, I would be doing life in prison.
How about those Tea Parties too? ACORN? Fox News? Jon Stewart? The New York Times? Wall Street Journal? Of course, the Supreme Court? And most importantly, is Argentinian agent Mark Sanford gonna sign up? If he doesn't, Jenny will bust him.
In 1998 they were all behind IEEE1394, which had very good link-level copy-protection. It was going to tie all the home theater components together. Sony made one TV with it, calling their version iLink. Then Intel turned its back on it, favoring USB 2.0, and that was the end of it. Even Apple, who owns many if the patents (calling it Firewire), has backed away from it.
Machines will only 'think' like humans when they have human emotions. All reasoning and abstract thought are based on emotions, which were the basis of all human interaction for countless millennia before humans spoke words. We will never believe that machines or anything else can be 'human-like' unless we feel it. Just look at the Loebner contest (http://www.loebner.net). Since there is no machine algorithm for this test (duh!), they use people to make subjective decisions as to whether unseen respondents 'seem' human. If the responses do not 'seem' right, then the respondent does not pass. It is amazing how many humans (used as controls) do not pass this Turing test, giving new meaning to "you don't feel right to me." Without human feelings there would be no human reasoning, no 'intelligence.' If this reasoning really bothers you, then you have helped prove my point.
As for these AI guys, their conclusions are something of a paradox. If they are as wrong as some believe and dumb as others say, then it may not take much more to create a machine to be as 'intelligent.' Their question may be better put, "when will we feel that humans have become as dumb as their machines?"
My God! If that is porn, then don't read Sports Illustrated, Ladies Home Journal, and certain not the Daily Mail. Then again, he was looking at them at work AND got caught on tape. Therefore, he should be tried, sentenced, convicted, and executed Internet-style, then promptly forgotten.
I have a rule that has served me well -- whatever I seriously estimate for a project's duration, the first half will take 80% of that time. Then half of the remaining project will take another 80%. After that, half of the remaining project will take another 80%. This regression continues into perpetuity. Eventually, it is decided to declare the project complete and live with what got done. Therefore, I have always planned a product to only encompass that which could be done in the "first half" of the project. If that was not enough for the product, then it was not feasible.
Another rule of thumb for tech products, if the project slips more than 50% beyond its targeted release date, then break up the team. The team that slips this much will never keep up with the market.
Is that all? Then he was not rich, merely disappointed at being an American 'millionaire' ('million' once meant something else in England). Wall Street investment bankers spend more at the bar on New Year's Eve and still do not dent their year-end bonuses.
The price of success. My operating system has never been criticized, but of course no one has ever seen it. BTW, it doesn't do much either.
About 13 years ago, the government of China contacted Cisco through its Hong Kong office and said "China has been very good to Cisco. Now it is time for Cisco to be very good to China." They forced Cisco to open factories in China, and China started a company later known as Huawei, run by some army generals. The Internet was becoming a major communications component of their country, both private and government, and they did not like the idea that their infrastructure would be made in America. Once Cisco opened their Chinese factories, someone in China began almost immediately cloning Cisco hardware. I wonder who? The clones were so close that they even had the same bugs.
Cisco seemed to put up with this for a while, since almost all of the hardware was kept within China. Then, sometime in the last ten years, I can't remember when, Huawei started selling Cisco-like hardware worldwide. At that point, Cisco sued and forced them to stop all international sales of the disputed products. Later, Huawei rewrote its router code and even licensed code from another American company.
So, what to do with all that surplus manufacturing capacity?
It is exactly 30 Internet years.
People around RF welders have serious shielding, and most plastics welding is automated. There have been 'accidents' such as seared skin, blindness, and neurological disorders among those who worked around these welders. Of course, we haven't heard much about them. Then again, we had not heard about brain injuries to football players for over 100 years.
And what restaurant's head waiter is going to tell you the daily special is bad?
With all widely accepted software technologies, the customer base demands "more, more, more," and the products get fat from all the features. Flash is just the most recent 'mature' technology -- e.g., DOS, Windows, Office, Adobe CS4, Adaptec/Sonic/Roxio CD/DVD/BluRay Creator, AutoCAD, and TurboTax (originally on the Commodore64). Even Linux is starting to look a little thick around the middle. As for those that don't grow, is anyone using Minix?
You may roll those dice, but depending upon your assignment, you may never touch a slot machine again as a customer.
In spite of what one might think, all human thought is tied to emotions, no matter how abstract the concept or complex the formula. Boyden's assertion is true for the machines because it is true for the humans that built them. If these assertions upset you, thanks for proving my point. If it seems implausible that a 'few' 'primitive' emotions could create an infinite amount of abstraction, think about the fact that most human knowledge is now stored and communicated as 0s and 1s.
It sounds almost as good as paying $2,000 for a root canal. I hope they charge 10 cents per word, just like the good old days. And I hope they hire George W. Bush as their news editor and the Taliabanana (not what you think) news team.
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Perhaps a more personal story is the life of Jon Postel, one of the creators of the DNS and the first top level domain administrator. There is a good story about how he held this position almost until his untimely death and the infamous DNS root incident that occurred shortly after he died. I had also heard that Jon held the domains a.com thru z.com. If he had lived into this century, he could have retired on the money that he could have sold them.
BTW, I believe that most OSes still can have a hosts.txt file. I wonder if it is still possible to spoof a client by creating a bogus file.
They will need to hire China to administer it (lower IT costs there).
This REALLY looks like virtual snuff porn. You should be virtually convicted of virtually snuffing the virtual hang man. A virtual life sentence! Such virtue!
"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be pornography," Clarence Thomas.