No, a decade or two is where you're headed now, at best. Without the checks and balances that were clearly designed with a level-headed adult in mind and have thus proven insufficient, it'd be a month or two. He would've transformed the place into a complete tinpot dictatorship in a matter of weeks. He would've brought all parts of the government and legislature under his control, nationalized the media and turned it into a Trump praise machine, instituted a command economy to enact his whims and satisfy his grudges, and made himself King of Trumpmerica For Life.
Trump did indeed put a hungry, vicious fox into the henhouse of the Department of Education - a woman who wants to privatize education, subsidize private schools, and allow them to have racially segregated student bodies. I can hardly imagine anyone worse for the job. It's not the department of childcare after all.
Put in a mandate that all government algorithms most be open sourced in an easily accessible fashion, and all data passed through them must also be easily accessed. This will enable 3rd parties, ANY 3rd party, not just contracted "companies" (usually in the pockets of the people making decisions) to audit the code and data for flaws.
This will prevent the use of modern "AI" technology, as the source code produced by layered neural networks is not reasonably comprehensible to humans. Although this isn't a bad price to pay for rooting out biased black boxes.
Also making all data passed through the algorithms public could conflict with legitimate privacy needs, such as with health records.
THIS. I don't understand how in 2018, societies allow arbitration to be a thing. It's shocking that this victorian/gilded age anachronism is still allowed to exist. Just kill it with fire before it lays eggs.
Good ol' doublethink, Palestine is an Israeli territory except when it would be more convenient if it were a sovereign nation. Looks like apartheid? Sovereign nation! Should Palestine have sovereignty? Israeli territory!
This, you see the "nuke 'em from orbit with jail time" attitude most commonly among the middle class and above, and it seems to get worse as income goes up.
...which is about 3.7 billion years of plastic bag consumption at present-day rates, if we deliver each one to the trench, and if you assume no biodegradation which does become a factor on such a timescale (especially if a plastic-eating bacteria were to escape the lab).
Humans are very prone to magical thinking about even the most practical matters. For example, a small but meaningful fraction of the world population thinks that their fossil CO2 emissions magically don't contribute to climate change.
Adding an AI means there is now an unbiased process looking for alternative interpretations.
AI is not necessarily unbiased. In fact it's very good at learning biases in its training data. So if it was trained on data generated by people who tend to mistake weddings for training camps, it will do the same. The difference is that now they can blame the computer for messing up.
Historically there's been no Linux other than GNU/Linux, but now there's also Android/Linux so it's more important to specify if the context isn't already established.
A company is moving in to exploit your cheap labor with a special license to pollute from the government, while your leader is a grade-A supercrook and mostly just his political opposition cares about that fact. Welcome to the third world USA, after much effort you've finally made it. A complementary basket of rusty VW beetles, oil barrels and discarded tires will be sent in the mail.
Facebook has no more use for a cryptocurrency than PayPal ever has. The currency is controlled by a single entity so there's no trust problem to solve, and therefore no potential gain from the immense amount of resources that would need to be expended to run a blockchain (storage at best, and also heaps of processing power at worst). The relatively glacial pace of blockchain transactions would also be for naught.
If Facebook were just using cryptocurrency buzzwords to generate hype around yet another plain-jane online payment system, that would actually make a lot more sense.
Other countries need to fill in as the US culls science programs and generally sets itself back to the stone age. After all, you'll need to know how much CO2 is being emitted when the US has to come crawling back years from now to buy carbon credits from the EU and China...
It's worse than that, it's impossible to predict how any individual AI would think as each one would be different. There could be one as described in TFS, and there could be ones more like SHODAN or GLaDOS or even Roko's Basilisk (not that anyone needs to fear this cyber-sadist's virtual torture dungeon...it's really just an AI that pisses away energy to satisfy its insane spite).
But we shouldn't fear the direct actions of sentient AI as much as we should fear the economic effects and power multiplication possibilities of non-sentient AI. The technology itself is not nearly as scary as what people would do with the technology.
A minor spoiler at most...and yeah it wasn't great. The full-length version is little more than the short version stretched out with artsy cinematography.
Sounds like Google is trying to re-enact the scene from the full-length version of Advantageous where the main character finds out her assistant/coach was an AI the whole time.
I'm trying to figure out why a hyper-rich guy is not only shopping for a bit of electronics himself, but spending time hunting for bargains like a regular broke-ass millennial. Is it some multimillion-dollar headset made from some endangered tree's wood treated with war orphans' tears?
Capturing the CO2 was my first thought. It's being released in centralized factories, surely that's about as easy a target for carbon capture as anything?
WhatsApp is ubiquitous in my part of the world, but after Facebook bought them I knew that some day it would be not just a closed-source walled garden but also a panopticon. I just hoped it wouldn't be so soon.
Well I've installed Signal on my phone, now I just have to convince all of my contacts who are already comfortable with total privacy nightmares like Facebook Messenger to do the same. Let's see how many use Signal already. Start new conversation...oh it's just me:-(
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No, a decade or two is where you're headed now, at best. Without the checks and balances that were clearly designed with a level-headed adult in mind and have thus proven insufficient, it'd be a month or two. He would've transformed the place into a complete tinpot dictatorship in a matter of weeks. He would've brought all parts of the government and legislature under his control, nationalized the media and turned it into a Trump praise machine, instituted a command economy to enact his whims and satisfy his grudges, and made himself King of Trumpmerica For Life.
Trump did indeed put a hungry, vicious fox into the henhouse of the Department of Education - a woman who wants to privatize education, subsidize private schools, and allow them to have racially segregated student bodies. I can hardly imagine anyone worse for the job. It's not the department of childcare after all.
Put in a mandate that all government algorithms most be open sourced in an easily accessible fashion, and all data passed through them must also be easily accessed. This will enable 3rd parties, ANY 3rd party, not just contracted "companies" (usually in the pockets of the people making decisions) to audit the code and data for flaws.
This will prevent the use of modern "AI" technology, as the source code produced by layered neural networks is not reasonably comprehensible to humans. Although this isn't a bad price to pay for rooting out biased black boxes.
Also making all data passed through the algorithms public could conflict with legitimate privacy needs, such as with health records.
Congratulations, you just sent your own credibility deeper into the gutter:
http://www.realclimate.org/ind...
THIS. I don't understand how in 2018, societies allow arbitration to be a thing. It's shocking that this victorian/gilded age anachronism is still allowed to exist. Just kill it with fire before it lays eggs.
Good ol' doublethink, Palestine is an Israeli territory except when it would be more convenient if it were a sovereign nation. Looks like apartheid? Sovereign nation! Should Palestine have sovereignty? Israeli territory!
This, you see the "nuke 'em from orbit with jail time" attitude most commonly among the middle class and above, and it seems to get worse as income goes up.
...which is about 3.7 billion years of plastic bag consumption at present-day rates, if we deliver each one to the trench, and if you assume no biodegradation which does become a factor on such a timescale (especially if a plastic-eating bacteria were to escape the lab).
Not a terrible idea. Safety issues could be taken care of with an unmanned delivery system. There are already geothermal plants near volcanoes.
Humans are very prone to magical thinking about even the most practical matters. For example, a small but meaningful fraction of the world population thinks that their fossil CO2 emissions magically don't contribute to climate change.
You mistake the divide of this apartheid as being between Jews and Arabs when it's actually between Israelis and Palestinians.
Adding an AI means there is now an unbiased process looking for alternative interpretations.
AI is not necessarily unbiased. In fact it's very good at learning biases in its training data. So if it was trained on data generated by people who tend to mistake weddings for training camps, it will do the same. The difference is that now they can blame the computer for messing up.
Historically there's been no Linux other than GNU/Linux, but now there's also Android/Linux so it's more important to specify if the context isn't already established.
A company is moving in to exploit your cheap labor with a special license to pollute from the government, while your leader is a grade-A supercrook and mostly just his political opposition cares about that fact. Welcome to the third world USA, after much effort you've finally made it. A complementary basket of rusty VW beetles, oil barrels and discarded tires will be sent in the mail.
Facebook has no more use for a cryptocurrency than PayPal ever has. The currency is controlled by a single entity so there's no trust problem to solve, and therefore no potential gain from the immense amount of resources that would need to be expended to run a blockchain (storage at best, and also heaps of processing power at worst). The relatively glacial pace of blockchain transactions would also be for naught.
If Facebook were just using cryptocurrency buzzwords to generate hype around yet another plain-jane online payment system, that would actually make a lot more sense.
Other countries need to fill in as the US culls science programs and generally sets itself back to the stone age. After all, you'll need to know how much CO2 is being emitted when the US has to come crawling back years from now to buy carbon credits from the EU and China...
It's worse than that, it's impossible to predict how any individual AI would think as each one would be different. There could be one as described in TFS, and there could be ones more like SHODAN or GLaDOS or even Roko's Basilisk (not that anyone needs to fear this cyber-sadist's virtual torture dungeon...it's really just an AI that pisses away energy to satisfy its insane spite).
But we shouldn't fear the direct actions of sentient AI as much as we should fear the economic effects and power multiplication possibilities of non-sentient AI. The technology itself is not nearly as scary as what people would do with the technology.
A minor spoiler at most...and yeah it wasn't great. The full-length version is little more than the short version stretched out with artsy cinematography.
Sounds like Google is trying to re-enact the scene from the full-length version of Advantageous where the main character finds out her assistant/coach was an AI the whole time.
I'm trying to figure out why a hyper-rich guy is not only shopping for a bit of electronics himself, but spending time hunting for bargains like a regular broke-ass millennial. Is it some multimillion-dollar headset made from some endangered tree's wood treated with war orphans' tears?
Capturing the CO2 was my first thought. It's being released in centralized factories, surely that's about as easy a target for carbon capture as anything?
Yep, if even the NSA can't stamp out LOVEINT, just imagine what's going on in private companies.
WhatsApp is ubiquitous in my part of the world, but after Facebook bought them I knew that some day it would be not just a closed-source walled garden but also a panopticon. I just hoped it wouldn't be so soon.
Well I've installed Signal on my phone, now I just have to convince all of my contacts who are already comfortable with total privacy nightmares like Facebook Messenger to do the same. Let's see how many use Signal already. Start new conversation...oh it's just me :-(
Not always, some have plastic or half-plastic cases.