Those of us of a certain age remember that phrase well.
But if you've explicitly granted permission for Facebook to record audio from your device, at any time, without notification -- in what sense would it be "illegal" for them to do so?
Driving is repetitive, boring, and uncreative? You should show up in some of the autonomous-vehicle threads and use that statement to confront the "machines will never be able to share the road with humans" crowd.
I'm pretty sure that human brains are no less "clockwork" than any of the things you mention -- just with more complex works, that are perhaps less reliable/predictable due to their implementation.
As far as the "universality" of the "human algorithm", well, greater human minds than mine have foundered on that question. How would you go about proving that there is nothing a human mind can't learn? At least, without falling into circular arguments ("since humans can't do that, it's not really learning")?
Hmm. Every genome-analysis technique in existence has a substantial read-error rate, and overcomes those errors by reading lots of strands and doing lots of statistics. It seems like a very, very large leap from "analyze a billion DNA strands to come up with a single sequence that's accurate enough" to "produce a billion specified DNA strands that are each accurate enough".
Except that it's not that simple (biology never is). Yes, multiple codons may code for a single amino acid, but they may yield different expression levels or transcription rates. In the genetic manipulation world, "codon optimization" is already a thing.
...except for the energy you're expending to get all your equipment and raw materials into orbit.
Of course, we could, someday, harvest most of our raw materials from comets and asteroids. Sure, I'd love to see this in my lifetime. I'm not optimistic, though.
The thing is, while dissipating energy from your cold junctions on Earth is dead easy -- convection, conduction, evaporation into the atmosphere -- the only option you have in space is radiation. And that translates into enormous fields of radiating surfaces, probably with channels to carry some sort of working fluid, and shading from the Sun. It's not going to be as easy as you imply.
On the other hand, I'm old enough to remember when Macs dropped the serial port in favor of USB, and all the squalling about "b-b-but my cheap modems!" Heck, I remember the complaints about non-standard (i.e. not DB9 or DB25) serial connectors.
Maybe it'll look boneheaded five years from now, maybe it won't. I'm going with "will", but I've been wrong before betting against Apple.
Surely it was the 1500 US dollars that was getting laundered, right?
I can't see how this defense wasn't laughed out of court. If he'd been taking illegal proceeds, buying real estate with it, and then selling the real estate, could he have defended himself on the grounds that "real estate isn't money"? Of course not. What am I missing?
Oh, you're good. Just dangling the notion of "untrackable and unreachable", ideas that will appeal to some modern readers. If you'd instead started talking about "telephone cords", everyone's eyes would have glazed over, and you'd have lost them.
There was a time when several generations of people lived with phones that had no screens at all. In fact, some of those people still walk among us, although they may move more slowly than they once did.
There are some people who prefer to use a phone just for talking (and, strange though it may seem, listening). Sure, they skew older, but you're kind of dumb to overlook the segment completely.
Room-scale VR does not cause any motion sickness. It's just seated VR that's a problem to some of us, because our inner-ears tell us that we're sitting still, but the world is moving around us.
I beg to differ. One of my most memorable VR-sickness experiences was in a three-wall CAVE. Three walls or six doesn't seem to make much difference; once enough of your visual field disagrees with your inner ear, they start to fight, and the loser is always my stomach.
The problem was that only one of us was tracked as the preferred viewpoint, so perspective and motion were off for the rest of us. Unless everything you're rendering is far enough away that parallax isn't a factor, I don't think there's much you can do about this. (And if everything is that far away in your virtual world, it greatly reduces opportunities for engagement.)
If you want VR with near-field activity for multiple people, you're pretty much talking head-mounted displays. That, or some sort of volumetric display that doesn't really exist yet.
When I watch "pranks" like this one, inevitably those videos are filmed in a place like Australia or the UK. If someone tried that in the US they would get shot within the first few takes, and the person with the gun would probably not get charged.
And as a bleeding-heart gun-grabbing liberal, I would sigh and weep... for all the innocents who suffered before the prankhole got what was coming to him.
I can't wait to strap myself into a platform that flexes my joints with ten times my own strength, controlled by the latest cloud-based closed-source software...
I can't see why they would be. More rigorously, I don't think you can establish a bound on the length of sentences that are humanly understandable. The sentences generated by my little example are all humanly understandable, for example, even though they're of unbounded length.
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Those of us of a certain age remember that phrase well.
But if you've explicitly granted permission for Facebook to record audio from your device, at any time, without notification -- in what sense would it be "illegal" for them to do so?
Self-awareness has not only never been demonstrated in a model form of neural network, but it likely may never be demonstrable in such a context.
Okay, how about we start with a rigorous demonstration that you are self-aware?
Driving is repetitive, boring, and uncreative? You should show up in some of the autonomous-vehicle threads and use that statement to confront the "machines will never be able to share the road with humans" crowd.
I'm pretty sure that human brains are no less "clockwork" than any of the things you mention -- just with more complex works, that are perhaps less reliable/predictable due to their implementation.
As far as the "universality" of the "human algorithm", well, greater human minds than mine have foundered on that question. How would you go about proving that there is nothing a human mind can't learn? At least, without falling into circular arguments ("since humans can't do that, it's not really learning")?
So, "accelerating"?
Tech companies spend more resources on trendy topic because tech companies spending more on a topic makes it trendy. Film at 11.
Hmm. Every genome-analysis technique in existence has a substantial read-error rate, and overcomes those errors by reading lots of strands and doing lots of statistics. It seems like a very, very large leap from "analyze a billion DNA strands to come up with a single sequence that's accurate enough" to "produce a billion specified DNA strands that are each accurate enough".
Except that it's not that simple (biology never is). Yes, multiple codons may code for a single amino acid, but they may yield different expression levels or transcription rates. In the genetic manipulation world, "codon optimization" is already a thing.
...except for the energy you're expending to get all your equipment and raw materials into orbit.
Of course, we could, someday, harvest most of our raw materials from comets and asteroids. Sure, I'd love to see this in my lifetime. I'm not optimistic, though.
The thing is, while dissipating energy from your cold junctions on Earth is dead easy -- convection, conduction, evaporation into the atmosphere -- the only option you have in space is radiation. And that translates into enormous fields of radiating surfaces, probably with channels to carry some sort of working fluid, and shading from the Sun. It's not going to be as easy as you imply.
In this case, I think it's gotta be Samsung. Still no drivers after a year? Seriously?
On the other hand, I'm old enough to remember when Macs dropped the serial port in favor of USB, and all the squalling about "b-b-but my cheap modems!" Heck, I remember the complaints about non-standard (i.e. not DB9 or DB25) serial connectors.
Maybe it'll look boneheaded five years from now, maybe it won't. I'm going with "will", but I've been wrong before betting against Apple.
Surely it was the 1500 US dollars that was getting laundered, right?
I can't see how this defense wasn't laughed out of court. If he'd been taking illegal proceeds, buying real estate with it, and then selling the real estate, could he have defended himself on the grounds that "real estate isn't money"? Of course not. What am I missing?
If MuckRock thinks that's the weirdest thing I'll read today, well, I guess I know one group that hasn't been tracking my browsing habits.
I bought my car new 17 years ago. I think it's about time for it to start producing grand-cars.
Google wants us to believe that we can escape. That's adorable.
Oh, you're good. Just dangling the notion of "untrackable and unreachable", ideas that will appeal to some modern readers. If you'd instead started talking about "telephone cords", everyone's eyes would have glazed over, and you'd have lost them.
There was a time when several generations of people lived with phones that had no screens at all. In fact, some of those people still walk among us, although they may move more slowly than they once did.
There are some people who prefer to use a phone just for talking (and, strange though it may seem, listening). Sure, they skew older, but you're kind of dumb to overlook the segment completely.
Room-scale VR does not cause any motion sickness. It's just seated VR that's a problem to some of us, because our inner-ears tell us that we're sitting still, but the world is moving around us.
I beg to differ. One of my most memorable VR-sickness experiences was in a three-wall CAVE. Three walls or six doesn't seem to make much difference; once enough of your visual field disagrees with your inner ear, they start to fight, and the loser is always my stomach.
The problem was that only one of us was tracked as the preferred viewpoint, so perspective and motion were off for the rest of us. Unless everything you're rendering is far enough away that parallax isn't a factor, I don't think there's much you can do about this. (And if everything is that far away in your virtual world, it greatly reduces opportunities for engagement.)
If you want VR with near-field activity for multiple people, you're pretty much talking head-mounted displays. That, or some sort of volumetric display that doesn't really exist yet.
Now I can go stagger around and throw up in front of strangers, rather than in the privacy of my home!
Oh, wait, there are already places for me to do that. They're called "bars".
...the average age for a child to get a smartphone was 40-something. Because that's how old we all were by the time they came on the market.
When I watch "pranks" like this one, inevitably those videos are filmed in a place like Australia or the UK. If someone tried that in the US they would get shot within the first few takes, and the person with the gun would probably not get charged.
And as a bleeding-heart gun-grabbing liberal, I would sigh and weep... for all the innocents who suffered before the prankhole got what was coming to him.
They told us legalizing marijuana would lead to increased crime, and here it is!
(In observance of Poe's Law, I probably should state explicitly here that I'm making fun of the people who believe this.)
I can't wait to strap myself into a platform that flexes my joints with ten times my own strength, controlled by the latest cloud-based closed-source software...
I can't see why they would be. More rigorously, I don't think you can establish a bound on the length of sentences that are humanly understandable. The sentences generated by my little example are all humanly understandable, for example, even though they're of unbounded length.
Because it's so much more fun to throw everybody's respective True Scotsmen into the arena and watch the mayhem.
The set of all parsable sentences is trivially unbounded, at least in English.
A sentence can go on, {and on,}* and on.