I've allways wondered why folks would assume AIs would be faster in general than human minds. The human mind operates at 40 Hz (the Thalamal-Cortical Loop sensorary 'refresh rate'). It is massivly paralell, and its secret may be the ability to look at few cues and produce a memory. Any AI that follows that path of learning is going to suffer many of the foibles of a human mind, namely emotions, which seem to be an important modulation of thought, memory, and perception.
It has been argued (pretty well IMHO) that a rules based system will choke on the sheer numer of rules and exceptions that it has to weed out. The massive size of the logical rules will make any calculations slow and requires an explosive growth of rules.
Emotion and interaction with others is a complex problem that defies mathematics. I don't think that a rules bases system will suffice. As a mind grows in scope, I wonder if there is a point beyond which it becomes inefficient again. That would also limit any super-intelligent AIs.
I'll paint with a broad brush here. A religious orginization wanting world domination? Shocking! A religious orginization with jerks in it? Shocking!
Look, our puny human meat minds are not likely to suddenly underand Truth or Creation anytime soon. Believe what you think you should. Believe what is most fun to believe, and be cool and stuff. If you're wrong...oh darn. You made a wrong choice of manymany choices (and maybe none of the choices you see is the right one). It's pretty likely you'll pick wrong.
All in all, I'm impressed by the report's conclusion. What worries me still is that more laws will be pushed forward anyway.
Freedom and Liberty have been known about for quite some time, but we've not been a free country very long. Civil rights were won in the sixties. That was not so long ago. We've been talking the talk for quite some time, but we've only started to tiptoe the walk of freedom.
The net is a new opportunity. We have a great idea, we take for granted that it is free. No, that is not quite the truth. We feel sorrow and anger when someone threatens are ideal perception of what the net is. There is nothing intrinsic about the net that makes it free. It was simply largly constructed by scientists and engineers who are used to free exchange of ideas and aren't quite the control freaks a lot of these well meaning normals are.
We'd rather be a free people than not. I think when asked, even many in the government would prefer that. I see a lot of anti-government posts here, and I get the feeling from their hostility they would rather have a government that they can yell at and be angry at than not. Strange to me. I don't like to be angry.
someone has to write in support of the government and large corporations. This is my submission:
Dear Government,
I'm sure you've gotton hundreds of letters from pitifull crybabies whining about the loss of their puny little freedoms to have access to information. Information is not a given right in the constitution. They have freedom of speech, not freedom of writing.
Maybe they are whining because their jobs depend on reverse engineering software to make sure that it is not doing anything unauthorized to their computers. Well boo-hoo. What these people have to realize is that unless tight controls are in place on them by tbe government or large corporations, anarchy will result.
I'd like to see a flexible pad that is waterproof and who's text (or graphics) is viewed via reflected light. It would have internet access and be touch sensitive. Give it some browsing or ssh ability and you have (access to) a supercomputer.
go to www.eff.org and put some money in their coffers. Put what you can.
Now (actually before) is the time to act. We have to take this thing to the Suprime Court just to at least know if it's time for the cyberpunk age, or do we have a little time.
The brain is designed to pick out similarities between things that are more different than similar.
It also excells in finding the differences between to very similar things. I think this is what leads to the disharmony between things that are 99.99 % the same. The differences in the two positions seem glaring, even if they are tiny. I've always thought this might explain some of the conflicts between the religious, and most of the conflicts between geeks and their ideas.
ObjC has the advantage of being just a very small and simple extension to ANSI C (and hence easy to learn), and the extension does not alter C itself, like C++ does.
Except for the heratics who don't grok C. We are not all kernel hackers, ya know. I know the language well enough to know I dislike C's feel. Oddly enough, I do like java and lisp and perl. -coyo the heretic
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It has been argued (pretty well IMHO) that a rules based system will choke on the sheer numer of rules and exceptions that it has to weed out. The massive size of the logical rules will make any calculations slow and requires an explosive growth of rules.
Emotion and interaction with others is a complex problem that defies mathematics. I don't think that a rules bases system will suffice. As a mind grows in scope, I wonder if there is a point beyond which it becomes inefficient again. That would also limit any super-intelligent AIs.
-coyo
Look, our puny human meat minds are not likely to suddenly underand Truth or Creation anytime soon. Believe what you think you should. Believe what is most fun to believe, and be cool and stuff. If you're wrong...oh darn. You made a wrong choice of manymany choices (and maybe none of the choices you see is the right one). It's pretty likely you'll pick wrong.
-coyo
Redundant Damage Undo? Retrofitted Tactical Phalanx? huh?
-coyo
Freedom and Liberty have been known about for quite some time, but we've not been a free country very long. Civil rights were won in the sixties. That was not so long ago. We've been talking the talk for quite some time, but we've only started to tiptoe the walk of freedom.
The net is a new opportunity. We have a great idea, we take for granted that it is free. No, that is not quite the truth. We feel sorrow and anger when someone threatens are ideal perception of what the net is. There is nothing intrinsic about the net that makes it free. It was simply largly constructed by scientists and engineers who are used to free exchange of ideas and aren't quite the control freaks a lot of these well meaning normals are.
We'd rather be a free people than not. I think when asked, even many in the government would prefer that. I see a lot of anti-government posts here, and I get the feeling from their hostility they would rather have a government that they can yell at and be angry at than not. Strange to me. I don't like to be angry.
-coyo
sure have. remember one nuke dream I had. I closed my eyes in the dream and felt my body dissolve away.
-coyo
coyo
Now (actually before) is the time to act. We have to take this thing to the Suprime Court just to at least know if it's time for the cyberpunk age, or do we have a little time.
coyo
It also excells in finding the differences between to very similar things. I think this is what leads to the disharmony between things that are 99.99 % the same. The differences in the two positions seem glaring, even if they are tiny. I've always thought this might explain some of the conflicts between the religious, and most of the conflicts between geeks and their ideas.
coyo
Except for the heratics who don't grok C. We are not all kernel hackers, ya know. I know the language well enough to know I dislike C's feel. Oddly enough, I do like java and lisp and perl. -coyo the heretic