Robots are excellent "consumers", don't you know much expensive and complicated pieces of hardware go into feeding and nurturing a baby robot? Never mind the endless engineering hours late at night and the poor technicians banging their heads against the wall trying to fit together two parts that don't fit.
That's just not how economics work. In a competitive environment, price of any product reduces to cost of making and delivering it to the customer, which reduces to labor costs spent on it. Most companies barely make any profit and often run in the red. Sure there are companies that are magnificently profitable, but they can only do that if they have secured their market share and don't run the risk of competitors undercutting their prices and stealing their customers.
Automation reduces total labor required to deliver products and thus drives down prices. Reduces mind you, not eliminates, robots after all are expensive for a reason - they are very labor intensive to produce. All you are really doing is shifting labor a step up in supply chain, instead of having people make products, you have people making machines and their parts that make products. As a result, all of us get to afford more stuff.
At a point where anyone might actually need that backup, it won't matter much in which particular dead language it's written. Luckily it seems that decrypting dead languages from scratch is totally doable, provided you have enough text samples.
Inventory management, sales and purchasing. Like most companies, they have an army of paper pushers on payroll, dealing with customer orders, submitting orders to suppliers, keeping track of how much of what needs to get to any given location at any given time, paying bills and checking that customers have paid their bills. Most of it is boring repetitive work that doesn't actually need human interaction and can be better handled by a sufficiently clever accounting program. It's pointless busywork and there is no good reason anyone should waste their lives on that crap.
The idea is that the gene passes on through male offspring and dooms only the female offspring. You are right though that evolution selects against it, with only males surviving to pass on their genes, reproduction rate of edited mosquitoes is much reduced. But you can offset that disadvantage by breeding the defective mosquitoes. Release enough of them and you overpower evolutionary pressure trying to remove the defective gene from the gene pool.
No matter what your product, planning to sell the same thing forever doesn't work, you'll run out of customers or competitors will paste you. The key is to keep developing new products and always keeping a step ahead of competition.
"Nobody can possibly be this dumb, they must be trolling" is a common trap to fall in. Sad fact is, there are more actual morons than there are trolls willing to act as morons.
Everything that gets done with neural networks is called "AI" these days. That's how it is, so get used to it, nobody is going to change it just because few people keep calling "Stop". It's even somewhat apropos, it works based on (sometimes failed) training and pretty much nobody can adequately explain how, kind of like natural intelligence in humans.
No, you'll still go to prison. But science is not about what is legal or ethical, science is about what is true and what is false. Laws of nature don't give a shit about laws of man.
Unless the papers were on ethics of organ translation, why would they need to be retracted, is the research any less valid just because research involved unethically obtained organs? Papers usually get retracted if the contents are bs, fabrication or plagiarism, not for an ethics problem with the research itself. Science is practical like that, what is true is true, what is false is false, ethics are a completely separate topic.
1 in 3? Try north of 95% of people who actually use internet and make log in accounts all over the place. If you use internet, you have been pwned, or at least one of the sites you have ever used has been pwned at least once which amounts to the same thing.
They were able to find some cases with Alzheimer, but no bacterial infection, perhaps they should look harder? 94% match in a sample size of 54 is hardly a case closed kind of thing. Good work nevertheless, but one should be a bit more careful before declaring groundbreaking success.
Trump is demanding for the one thing he has been publicly told he will not get. And he had two years to get it from GOP. If you think it's about money or the wall, you are completely missing the point. It's about who wears the pants. Trump deliberately set up the situation to show that he could demand whatever he wanted and get it. He expected Dems to just fold once he finished painting everyone in the corner and had no consideration on what to do in case Dems didn't fold. And now he has no idea on how to weasel out of the situation without folding himself.
Rotating space station almost happened, unfortunately it ended up rusting at a parking lot in Japan. NASA was paying for it, but ran out of money and couldn't schedule Shuttle flights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Inertial navigation for cars, on road network? Overengineer much? Theres this invention called a map out there. Turn left you are now on this street, turn right you are now here. Not exactly rocket science. For driving cars, GPS is a convenience, life will not stopp if you dont have it.
And how often do GPS outages happen? There is also GLONASS and a few others out there. If they are all out it means you are in a war zone, being jammed, and your maps not working is probably least of your problems.
" The problem is that reality tracking technology and heuristics are not even close to making a safe autonomous street robot."
Safe as in comparison to say industrial robots, no that might be hard to achieve indeed. But you dont need that, you only need "safer than human" rating, and as tech development goes that is easy pickings.
Proofs excist only in mathematics. Physics has to get done with only disproofs. An apple falling towards ground for ten times, unfortunately does not logically prove that it will do that for eleventh time, even if it makes it a pretty reasonable assumption.
Depends on how you do the open office, I work in one and I'd say it works great. But the ones I saw in trailer, urg, no thank you. The operative word in "open office" is "open", not cluttered with crap that everyone leaves lying around, or stuffed so tightly nobody has a decent amount of deskspace or even room to move. Sure it can be a pain in the backside when you are concentrated on some task and get interrupted, but well, you are hardly the only one with an important task are you, whatever you are interrupted with is probably quite important for someone too. And well, if you are doing something you really dont want to get interrupted on, headphones send a pretty clear message.
Open office can work just fine, maybe better in many cases when you have many people working on same project. But do it right, make it comfortable, not just the coffee room but actual work area, enough deskspace, enough room to move etc. And if someone insists on cluttering work are with some crap, enforce some cleanliness, if you havent needed something for a month, it probably shouldnt be on your desk. For many people, computer is really only thing you need on your desk, maybe some temporary note papers, but not piles of crap. Clean up and you'll feel better working in an area with some air in it.
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Robots are excellent "consumers", don't you know much expensive and complicated pieces of hardware go into feeding and nurturing a baby robot? Never mind the endless engineering hours late at night and the poor technicians banging their heads against the wall trying to fit together two parts that don't fit.
Automation reduces total labor required to deliver products and thus drives down prices. Reduces mind you, not eliminates, robots after all are expensive for a reason - they are very labor intensive to produce. All you are really doing is shifting labor a step up in supply chain, instead of having people make products, you have people making machines and their parts that make products. As a result, all of us get to afford more stuff.
At a point where anyone might actually need that backup, it won't matter much in which particular dead language it's written. Luckily it seems that decrypting dead languages from scratch is totally doable, provided you have enough text samples.
Inventory management, sales and purchasing. Like most companies, they have an army of paper pushers on payroll, dealing with customer orders, submitting orders to suppliers, keeping track of how much of what needs to get to any given location at any given time, paying bills and checking that customers have paid their bills. Most of it is boring repetitive work that doesn't actually need human interaction and can be better handled by a sufficiently clever accounting program. It's pointless busywork and there is no good reason anyone should waste their lives on that crap.
The idea is that the gene passes on through male offspring and dooms only the female offspring. You are right though that evolution selects against it, with only males surviving to pass on their genes, reproduction rate of edited mosquitoes is much reduced. But you can offset that disadvantage by breeding the defective mosquitoes. Release enough of them and you overpower evolutionary pressure trying to remove the defective gene from the gene pool.
No matter what your product, planning to sell the same thing forever doesn't work, you'll run out of customers or competitors will paste you. The key is to keep developing new products and always keeping a step ahead of competition.
"Nobody can possibly be this dumb, they must be trolling" is a common trap to fall in. Sad fact is, there are more actual morons than there are trolls willing to act as morons.
In what way were they valued at 100 mil? All they had to their name was couple of bad CGI pictures.
https://www.nature.com/nature/...
Everything that gets done with neural networks is called "AI" these days. That's how it is, so get used to it, nobody is going to change it just because few people keep calling "Stop". It's even somewhat apropos, it works based on (sometimes failed) training and pretty much nobody can adequately explain how, kind of like natural intelligence in humans.
Are you claiming Earth is so special that laws of thermodynamics don't apply?
No, you'll still go to prison. But science is not about what is legal or ethical, science is about what is true and what is false. Laws of nature don't give a shit about laws of man.
Unless the papers were on ethics of organ translation, why would they need to be retracted, is the research any less valid just because research involved unethically obtained organs? Papers usually get retracted if the contents are bs, fabrication or plagiarism, not for an ethics problem with the research itself. Science is practical like that, what is true is true, what is false is false, ethics are a completely separate topic.
1 in 3? Try north of 95% of people who actually use internet and make log in accounts all over the place. If you use internet, you have been pwned, or at least one of the sites you have ever used has been pwned at least once which amounts to the same thing.
They were able to find some cases with Alzheimer, but no bacterial infection, perhaps they should look harder? 94% match in a sample size of 54 is hardly a case closed kind of thing. Good work nevertheless, but one should be a bit more careful before declaring groundbreaking success.
If it's such a convenient solution, why did he back down from using it then? Because it's a stupid idea and someone clued him in, that's why.
Trump is demanding for the one thing he has been publicly told he will not get. And he had two years to get it from GOP. If you think it's about money or the wall, you are completely missing the point. It's about who wears the pants. Trump deliberately set up the situation to show that he could demand whatever he wanted and get it. He expected Dems to just fold once he finished painting everyone in the corner and had no consideration on what to do in case Dems didn't fold. And now he has no idea on how to weasel out of the situation without folding himself.
Rotating space station almost happened, unfortunately it ended up rusting at a parking lot in Japan. NASA was paying for it, but ran out of money and couldn't schedule Shuttle flights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The correct way to treat it is to establish a fine and treat it as free income to municipality. Problem gets solved real fast.
Pardon me, wrong decade
Inertial navigation for cars, on road network? Overengineer much? Theres this invention called a map out there. Turn left you are now on this street, turn right you are now here. Not exactly rocket science. For driving cars, GPS is a convenience, life will not stopp if you dont have it.
And how often do GPS outages happen? There is also GLONASS and a few others out there. If they are all out it means you are in a war zone, being jammed, and your maps not working is probably least of your problems.
Safe as in comparison to say industrial robots, no that might be hard to achieve indeed. But you dont need that, you only need "safer than human" rating, and as tech development goes that is easy pickings.
Proofs excist only in mathematics. Physics has to get done with only disproofs. An apple falling towards ground for ten times, unfortunately does not logically prove that it will do that for eleventh time, even if it makes it a pretty reasonable assumption.
Open office can work just fine, maybe better in many cases when you have many people working on same project. But do it right, make it comfortable, not just the coffee room but actual work area, enough deskspace, enough room to move etc. And if someone insists on cluttering work are with some crap, enforce some cleanliness, if you havent needed something for a month, it probably shouldnt be on your desk. For many people, computer is really only thing you need on your desk, maybe some temporary note papers, but not piles of crap. Clean up and you'll feel better working in an area with some air in it.