I would say its quite disingenuous to call that a 'claim', that's just an eye-catching, hyperbolous title no doubt originating only in the mind of the author of the article. It seems that you are irrationally predisposed to be hostile toward this thing, and can't be bothered to separate the developers from the lens of the press that you're necessarily viewing them through.
It seems to me that you have missed (what I believe is) the point. The robot has an initial, object-based, dimensionally-limited/understood model of its environment. If somebody 'moves a chair' when not in the sensory view of the robot, the robot isn't going to get confused, it's just going to process the basics of the space (such as the walls not moving) see that a previous element in that space is now not there, delete that object from its model, add the same object back in its new location. A robot doesn't care about 'continuity' like a human being does unless you program it to care. If the robot just needs a working model to move through a space, all it cares about is where things are now in relation to a larger, dimensional baseline for the model. If anything, the most confusing thing for something like this would likely be a door, worse a really big door like a garage door, that would alter the space the robot perceives.
From what I see, this prototype isn't very multipurpose. It seems just to be a table that moves itself and figures out tasks based on environment instead of following a set of instructions (if things are as they are portrayed).
I don't think there is any claim that this device is going to be doing everything tomorrow, just that it can approach tasks within its featureset (move things around) with the AI equivalent of an 'open mind' that adapts to changing environments.
Really it would be impossible to judge unless somebody else were moving something. It's impossible for somebody who otherwise experiences things normally to completely eradicate proportional self-awareness.
That way each country can establish its own standards for what is and is not allowed.
This is the most important reason for control to remain in the hands of the US as long as possible. At least with the US at the helm, crazy theocracies and brutal one-party governments are at least forced to work at preventing the enlightening power of the internet from spoiling all their brainwashing. Besides, your argument is irrelevant as there has long been.co.[nation].
I will be the first to admit that I don't know that much about the practical application of sonar in situations like this, but abstractly, wouldn't the use of 12 different sonar sensors possibly create a matrix that through some kind of differential process create a sensory model that's more useful than a single sensor or smaller array?
It's funny but some of the early momentum that got 'global warming' out of the fringe theory category and into the mainstream came from Margaret Thatcher wanting to undermine the political power of coal miners' unions in the UK. I wonder what she thinks of her gambit now...
I don't remember any off the top of my head, but aren't there distros that specialize in old hardware?
Besides, I usually put FreeDOS on anything below 100 Mhz.
It was probably more an insightful knowledge that people were going to, do, and will continue to bitch about Idle. Never mind that they were told not to go there, not only do they go there anyway, they still have the chutzpah to complain about the place they were told not to go.
I really just don't get the hostility. I may have a high ID, but that's just because I only registered to go to the 10th anniversary party, I've lurked since 1998, and dudes, this is what Slashdot was created for. For chrissake, if anybody can find some of that early footage of Taco talking about why and how he created slashdot, you'll be enlightened to find that it was supposed to be kind of obscure and somewhat nonsensical. That's why it's called slashdot! It was supposed to sound weird when you had to verbalize the URL! Now in the intervening decade we have all these guys with sticks up their asses trying to pretend like/. is serious business . Granted/. isn't an immature playground like Digg or others, but it's just not 100% serious business like a trade journal or something. Christ.
I can say with certainty that if I were to suddenly become a billionaire, my wife would not begrudge me a small harem.
Now all I need are the billions, and I'm set...
It will likely be a long time before anything that deals with the interaction of independent and (sometimes) rational beings will ever reach the level of science. (Psychohistory?) Social Darwinism should be looked at as a philosophical extension of the observable principles of a Darwinian view of natural selection. As a simple abstraction, it's hard to cogently argue that adaptability isn't an important factor in the success and survival of both individuals and groups in humanity. Further, the secular altruism is little more than a reassignment of religious altruism to the organization of the state instead of the church. Altruism itself is anti-rational, which isn't to say that generosity isn't still a virtue, simply because humans aren't computers. A person must get more out of life than an algorithm that emphasizes gain and minimizes loss. However to take the decision of charity away from the individual, whether by the mechanism of the church or the state, is the problem.
Most executives, hedge fund managers, et al are smarter than most blue collar boors. That's a simple function of education matched with the positive side of the bell curve of human capacity. The key is not to conflate 'intelligent' with 'principled'.
I would also have to say from where I sit that credit is a systemic social problem that has befallen all of humanity. Credit virtually didn't exist a century ago relative to today's activity. Now virtually every person, every company, every organization, and every government on the face of the earth owes something to somebody else. In a society where instant gratification has been made logistically real for almost everything, the financial model of credit for everybody for any use has found fertile ground in the hearts and minds of practically everybody at every level. Today's financial crisis is literally a domino effect of failures of individual planning and foresight at the bottom, ethics in the middle, and planning and foresight again at the top (and probably ethics as well). If anything it proves that executives and their ilk are human, but it doesn't show them to be any more stupid than all the blue collar boors at the bottom who have lived beyond their means on credit and then can't pay their bills because they haven't planned for any contingencies.
It may shock you to know that over the entire span of life on earth in geologic time, 98% of species have become extinct. There have been several mass extinctions between epochs before even vertebrates, let alone mammals and primates, became dominant. I'm always amused by all the emotional, subjective bullshit from environmentalists freaking out about 'endangered species' like it's something important. Earth has always been expanding and contracting biological diversity, and the criteria are simple: strength and adaptability survive, weakness and stagnancy die. That's just the nature of life itself. If humans are responsible for some of these extinctions, so what? The real question is, can we adapt to the damage that we've caused? If so, by purely Darwinian terms, we 'deserve' to live. Life is its own justification, death is an indication of failure.
The speed of light is not some magical, mystical value that can never be touched. Light is just a waveform of photons. You can slow it down and you can speed it up. Both have already been done, and when it gets sped up it does actually arrive before it leaves. One must try to avoid conflating the confusing and improbable with the impossible.
If the EU was really financing an Ethiopian occupation, and European commerce is increasingly forced to go all the way around Africa rather than risk the Gulf of Aden on the way to the Suez, then I would say they would at the very least appear not to be getting their money's worth are they?
Repair the influence indeed. If not for 300 years of colonialism, Africa would be even more disease-ridden, illiterate, and likely to suffer seasonal resource shortfalls than it is already, and that's saying a lot. Reminds me a lot of...
It sounds like you have some aggression issues that you haven't worked out and that you're trying to rationalize your personal condition by projecting it onto a class of people you identify with and believe are similarly afflicted.
Violence has always been foundational to games in human history, far, far earlier than the transistor. The Olympics have always had events where people compete in the skills of soldiers, people forget that javelins were weapons back when the Greeks started things, and I'll bet the wrestling back then wasn't so regulated. Hell, the Mayans killed people during and after their games. Chess is a medieval battlefield with simple parameters.
But leaving the historical violence of games aside, the vast majority of gamers I know don't have repressed violent urges any moreso than similar non-gamers I've observed. (Every normal person has some level of repressed violence, it's only by a matter of degree that you can single somebody out as 'too passive' or 'too aggressive'.)
While the parent should be modded flamebait, I'll bite. You do realize that there has been virtually zero western influence in Somalia for years? Because Somalia's government has completely collapsed, no foreign company has the foolhardiness to operate there. There is no rule of law and no infrastructure. Any respectable foreign agent in Somalia would have little to nothing to gain and would likely get ripped to shreds. The only foreigners in Somalia are criminals and pirates from other countries.
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I would say its quite disingenuous to call that a 'claim', that's just an eye-catching, hyperbolous title no doubt originating only in the mind of the author of the article. It seems that you are irrationally predisposed to be hostile toward this thing, and can't be bothered to separate the developers from the lens of the press that you're necessarily viewing them through.
It seems to me that you have missed (what I believe is) the point. The robot has an initial, object-based, dimensionally-limited/understood model of its environment. If somebody 'moves a chair' when not in the sensory view of the robot, the robot isn't going to get confused, it's just going to process the basics of the space (such as the walls not moving) see that a previous element in that space is now not there, delete that object from its model, add the same object back in its new location. A robot doesn't care about 'continuity' like a human being does unless you program it to care. If the robot just needs a working model to move through a space, all it cares about is where things are now in relation to a larger, dimensional baseline for the model. If anything, the most confusing thing for something like this would likely be a door, worse a really big door like a garage door, that would alter the space the robot perceives.
From what I see, this prototype isn't very multipurpose. It seems just to be a table that moves itself and figures out tasks based on environment instead of following a set of instructions (if things are as they are portrayed).
I don't think there is any claim that this device is going to be doing everything tomorrow, just that it can approach tasks within its featureset (move things around) with the AI equivalent of an 'open mind' that adapts to changing environments.
Maybe you're their arch enemy, attempting to spread tendrils of FUD to undermine their credibility.
Really it would be impossible to judge unless somebody else were moving something. It's impossible for somebody who otherwise experiences things normally to completely eradicate proportional self-awareness.
It's sad that some uninformed dunce moderated the GP 'insightful'.
That way each country can establish its own standards for what is and is not allowed.
This is the most important reason for control to remain in the hands of the US as long as possible. At least with the US at the helm, crazy theocracies and brutal one-party governments are at least forced to work at preventing the enlightening power of the internet from spoiling all their brainwashing. Besides, your argument is irrelevant as there has long been .co.[nation].
I will be the first to admit that I don't know that much about the practical application of sonar in situations like this, but abstractly, wouldn't the use of 12 different sonar sensors possibly create a matrix that through some kind of differential process create a sensory model that's more useful than a single sensor or smaller array?
I wish I had mod points for you, but other people it would seem would rather moderate important truths away.
For the record, hoods + shackles are a hell of a lot more preferable to tuberculosis, malnutrition, and unsafe water.
I would snap up a chance to do time at Gitmo vs. just about any jail/prison outside of the 1st world.
It's funny but some of the early momentum that got 'global warming' out of the fringe theory category and into the mainstream came from Margaret Thatcher wanting to undermine the political power of coal miners' unions in the UK. I wonder what she thinks of her gambit now...
I don't remember any off the top of my head, but aren't there distros that specialize in old hardware? Besides, I usually put FreeDOS on anything below 100 Mhz.
It was probably more an insightful knowledge that people were going to, do, and will continue to bitch about Idle. Never mind that they were told not to go there, not only do they go there anyway, they still have the chutzpah to complain about the place they were told not to go.
/. is serious business . Granted /. isn't an immature playground like Digg or others, but it's just not 100% serious business like a trade journal or something. Christ.
I really just don't get the hostility. I may have a high ID, but that's just because I only registered to go to the 10th anniversary party, I've lurked since 1998, and dudes, this is what Slashdot was created for. For chrissake, if anybody can find some of that early footage of Taco talking about why and how he created slashdot, you'll be enlightened to find that it was supposed to be kind of obscure and somewhat nonsensical. That's why it's called slashdot! It was supposed to sound weird when you had to verbalize the URL! Now in the intervening decade we have all these guys with sticks up their asses trying to pretend like
But the tears of unfathomable sadness are sweet and yummy!
I can say with certainty that if I were to suddenly become a billionaire, my wife would not begrudge me a small harem. Now all I need are the billions, and I'm set...
It will likely be a long time before anything that deals with the interaction of independent and (sometimes) rational beings will ever reach the level of science. (Psychohistory?) Social Darwinism should be looked at as a philosophical extension of the observable principles of a Darwinian view of natural selection. As a simple abstraction, it's hard to cogently argue that adaptability isn't an important factor in the success and survival of both individuals and groups in humanity. Further, the secular altruism is little more than a reassignment of religious altruism to the organization of the state instead of the church. Altruism itself is anti-rational, which isn't to say that generosity isn't still a virtue, simply because humans aren't computers. A person must get more out of life than an algorithm that emphasizes gain and minimizes loss. However to take the decision of charity away from the individual, whether by the mechanism of the church or the state, is the problem.
Most executives, hedge fund managers, et al are smarter than most blue collar boors. That's a simple function of education matched with the positive side of the bell curve of human capacity. The key is not to conflate 'intelligent' with 'principled'.
I would also have to say from where I sit that credit is a systemic social problem that has befallen all of humanity. Credit virtually didn't exist a century ago relative to today's activity. Now virtually every person, every company, every organization, and every government on the face of the earth owes something to somebody else. In a society where instant gratification has been made logistically real for almost everything, the financial model of credit for everybody for any use has found fertile ground in the hearts and minds of practically everybody at every level. Today's financial crisis is literally a domino effect of failures of individual planning and foresight at the bottom, ethics in the middle, and planning and foresight again at the top (and probably ethics as well). If anything it proves that executives and their ilk are human, but it doesn't show them to be any more stupid than all the blue collar boors at the bottom who have lived beyond their means on credit and then can't pay their bills because they haven't planned for any contingencies.
It may shock you to know that over the entire span of life on earth in geologic time, 98% of species have become extinct. There have been several mass extinctions between epochs before even vertebrates, let alone mammals and primates, became dominant. I'm always amused by all the emotional, subjective bullshit from environmentalists freaking out about 'endangered species' like it's something important. Earth has always been expanding and contracting biological diversity, and the criteria are simple: strength and adaptability survive, weakness and stagnancy die. That's just the nature of life itself. If humans are responsible for some of these extinctions, so what? The real question is, can we adapt to the damage that we've caused? If so, by purely Darwinian terms, we 'deserve' to live. Life is its own justification, death is an indication of failure.
But... knowing is half the battle! GI Joooooe!
The speed of light is not some magical, mystical value that can never be touched. Light is just a waveform of photons. You can slow it down and you can speed it up. Both have already been done, and when it gets sped up it does actually arrive before it leaves. One must try to avoid conflating the confusing and improbable with the impossible.
If the EU was really financing an Ethiopian occupation, and European commerce is increasingly forced to go all the way around Africa rather than risk the Gulf of Aden on the way to the Suez, then I would say they would at the very least appear not to be getting their money's worth are they?
Repair the influence indeed. If not for 300 years of colonialism, Africa would be even more disease-ridden, illiterate, and likely to suffer seasonal resource shortfalls than it is already, and that's saying a lot. Reminds me a lot of...
It sounds like you have some aggression issues that you haven't worked out and that you're trying to rationalize your personal condition by projecting it onto a class of people you identify with and believe are similarly afflicted.
Violence has always been foundational to games in human history, far, far earlier than the transistor. The Olympics have always had events where people compete in the skills of soldiers, people forget that javelins were weapons back when the Greeks started things, and I'll bet the wrestling back then wasn't so regulated. Hell, the Mayans killed people during and after their games. Chess is a medieval battlefield with simple parameters.
But leaving the historical violence of games aside, the vast majority of gamers I know don't have repressed violent urges any moreso than similar non-gamers I've observed. (Every normal person has some level of repressed violence, it's only by a matter of degree that you can single somebody out as 'too passive' or 'too aggressive'.)
While the parent should be modded flamebait, I'll bite. You do realize that there has been virtually zero western influence in Somalia for years? Because Somalia's government has completely collapsed, no foreign company has the foolhardiness to operate there. There is no rule of law and no infrastructure. Any respectable foreign agent in Somalia would have little to nothing to gain and would likely get ripped to shreds. The only foreigners in Somalia are criminals and pirates from other countries.
I used to play it all the time on my Compaq Portable III. I highly doubt that any sequel will recapture that early 90s spirit.