> marriage is for creating stability and commitment for raising healthy well adjusted children
A robotic uterus inside a skilled children rearing android robot.
A robot's brain can be checkpointed and restored. A human brain can't. That would make it acceptable to delete robot memories, even if they are recognized as legal persons. So, granting robots human rights doesn't automatically mean robots would be like humans.
What did you expect, a workable AGI on their first paper? It's a decent CV paper. They used GANs (generative adversarial networks) which are state of the art in deep learning today to transform game images into more realistic images. It has at least two interesting applications: to generate cheap, synthetic data for training other CV systems (it's another way to automatically supervise training), and to improve game graphics (for fun).
Purity is such an impure word - it means repression, persecution and lack of liberty. It's been abused since time immemorial, the main tool in the ideological toolbox.
Here's where the Romanian diaspora is currently: Italy (1.2M), Spain (800K), USA (650K), Germany (335K), Israel (220K), Ukraine (150K - historical reasons) and finally UK (160K). So UK is the 7th.
I live in Bucharest and have 2 different cable providers, they don't cost much, about $9 each. I pay for both in order to have a fallback option.
When there's any problem, I never have to call tech service. It just recovers a little bit later, but in the meantime I use the other one. I never had both of them down, but even if I did, there's the mobile phone too with its own data plan.
Rent is cheap, most young people speak English and are friendly with foreigners, tourism is attractive. Romania could be a good combination for a remote working programmer. Some people prefer Cluj to Bucharest.
I'd rather use space as a dedicated play/pause button. It's stupid to go to YouTube and hit space to play a video, and it scrolls the page. But if you focus the payer, then space changes functionality and becomes the video start/stop controller. It's confusing. Who scrolls with space when you have page down, arrow and scroll wheel? Why not have a large juicy video player button instead?
I think the UK politicians led people to Brexit to have a free hand in pushing these stupid authoritarian laws. They knew these new laws were coming and planned to smooth the way ahead.
How do we know the spies are truthfully spying on us, and reporting all relevant information in a timely manner, even if it is against their interests?
Why make just one common blacklist when we could have hundreds, maintained by groups of people. Some will have republican bias, some democrat, some Chinese, some will agree with programmers, or Turks and so on. Basically you could subscribe to a bunch of them and if the score is above a threshold, then remove the article from the feed. If you change your mind you can always subscribe to other blacklists.
Good thing is that with AI you can test your algorithms on new datasets and verify how good they are. It's much more transparent than following decisions based solely on some people's discretion.
> Furthermore, direct translations would square the necessary data storage, which would be retarded. Even for google's data centers. If this is what they are doing, THEN THEY ARE RETARDED.
Don't be so harsh, it might have been justified by better accuracy. It hasn't always been better to use an inter-lingua in multi-language translation.
Methane, not CO2, if you were careful to read. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 (30 times more potent) so the effects on reducing global warming would be much higher.
In other news, we can tap into the visual cortex and use it as a teaching system for machine vision: "Representational Distance Learning for Deep Neural Networks"
They use a neat little trick: instead of mapping brain states directly to neural network states, they measure the distances between the representations of pairs of objects in the source domain and then transfer the same structure to the target domain. They don't need to be similar architectures. Hence, the possible lead to mind uploading / downloading. Of course we need to capture much more than vision, there's also the language representations, and value representations (as in Reinforcement Learning) for behavior transfer.
With a portable brain scanner a person could build a model of herself during life, then transfer to another body or to VR after death.
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> marriage is for creating stability and commitment for raising healthy well adjusted children A robotic uterus inside a skilled children rearing android robot.
A robot's brain can be checkpointed and restored. A human brain can't. That would make it acceptable to delete robot memories, even if they are recognized as legal persons. So, granting robots human rights doesn't automatically mean robots would be like humans.
> marriage
Why is the definition of a word important? Call it what you like, it's going to be what it is. Life doesn't need to fit to definitions.
What did you expect, a workable AGI on their first paper? It's a decent CV paper. They used GANs (generative adversarial networks) which are state of the art in deep learning today to transform game images into more realistic images. It has at least two interesting applications: to generate cheap, synthetic data for training other CV systems (it's another way to automatically supervise training), and to improve game graphics (for fun).
> They do not affect the planet in any way
Because coal and oil are natural. See?
I read somewhere that peak usage for air conditioning is in the evening, when people get back home, but peak solar power is at noon.
Purity is such an impure word - it means repression, persecution and lack of liberty. It's been abused since time immemorial, the main tool in the ideological toolbox.
My mistake, UK is 6th.
> billions of Romanians enter the UK every day.
Here's where the Romanian diaspora is currently: Italy (1.2M), Spain (800K), USA (650K), Germany (335K), Israel (220K), Ukraine (150K - historical reasons) and finally UK (160K). So UK is the 7th.
I live in Bucharest and have 2 different cable providers, they don't cost much, about $9 each. I pay for both in order to have a fallback option. When there's any problem, I never have to call tech service. It just recovers a little bit later, but in the meantime I use the other one. I never had both of them down, but even if I did, there's the mobile phone too with its own data plan.
Rent is cheap, most young people speak English and are friendly with foreigners, tourism is attractive. Romania could be a good combination for a remote working programmer. Some people prefer Cluj to Bucharest.
I'd rather use space as a dedicated play/pause button. It's stupid to go to YouTube and hit space to play a video, and it scrolls the page. But if you focus the payer, then space changes functionality and becomes the video start/stop controller. It's confusing. Who scrolls with space when you have page down, arrow and scroll wheel? Why not have a large juicy video player button instead?
I think the UK politicians led people to Brexit to have a free hand in pushing these stupid authoritarian laws. They knew these new laws were coming and planned to smooth the way ahead.
How do we know the spies are truthfully spying on us, and reporting all relevant information in a timely manner, even if it is against their interests?
It depends a lot on how fast the interconnect is and how fast is access to memory.
Why make just one common blacklist when we could have hundreds, maintained by groups of people. Some will have republican bias, some democrat, some Chinese, some will agree with programmers, or Turks and so on. Basically you could subscribe to a bunch of them and if the score is above a threshold, then remove the article from the feed. If you change your mind you can always subscribe to other blacklists.
Good thing is that with AI you can test your algorithms on new datasets and verify how good they are. It's much more transparent than following decisions based solely on some people's discretion.
> Furthermore, direct translations would square the necessary data storage, which would be retarded. Even for google's data centers. If this is what they are doing, THEN THEY ARE RETARDED.
Don't be so harsh, it might have been justified by better accuracy. It hasn't always been better to use an inter-lingua in multi-language translation.
Why wasn't the IMU sensor doubled by other ways of detection? There was no fallback in case it malfunctioned.
Methane, not CO2, if you were careful to read. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 (30 times more potent) so the effects on reducing global warming would be much higher.
Can they use electrodynamic tethers of deorbiting?
Satellites have deorbiting devices, they can ordered to fall back to earth in a controlled way.
What counts is price and performance. Is there a comparison to other offers?
In other news, we can tap into the visual cortex and use it as a teaching system for machine vision: "Representational Distance Learning for Deep Neural Networks"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.039...
They use a neat little trick: instead of mapping brain states directly to neural network states, they measure the distances between the representations of pairs of objects in the source domain and then transfer the same structure to the target domain. They don't need to be similar architectures. Hence, the possible lead to mind uploading / downloading. Of course we need to capture much more than vision, there's also the language representations, and value representations (as in Reinforcement Learning) for behavior transfer.
With a portable brain scanner a person could build a model of herself during life, then transfer to another body or to VR after death.
> Playing games is NOT A.I.
... it was not A.I.?
AlphaGo was playing a game. So
But even so, it was clearly something, what shall we call it, then?