That is a massive difference from say, Deep Blue vs Kasparov. Deep Blue was specifically programmed to play Chess. AlphaGo was essentially fed a bunch of Go games and figured out how to play by itself. Surely you see the qualitative difference in that.
We just have a black box mathematical function that can play a game.
Is there a reason we cannot describe the human brain as a black box mathematical function that can play "the game of life"? Isn't the brain a self-teaching neural network that learns to respond to various inputs with the correct outputs?
Of course this isn't a true general purpose AI yet. But I think you're downplaying the significance of what it can do.
Sorry for the double reply, but I thought I would add that you should direct your friend to both the article I posted, highlighting this bit:
Quite simply, the view that a trademark holder must trawl the internet and respond to every unauthorized use (or even every infringing use) is a myth. It’s great for lawyers, but irritating and expensive for everyone else.
And also, to the Mattel vs RCA case which is linked at the end of that article, which specifically deals with parody (Mattel was pissed about the "Barbie Girl" song by Aqua. Mattel's claim was dismissed, parody is protected. The judge famously stated "The parties are advised to chill.").
Second, Canonical is not “required” to enforce its mark in every instance or risk losing it. The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide occurs when a trademark becomes the standard term for a type of good (‘zipper’ and ‘escalator’ being two famous examples). This is very rare and would not be a problem for Canonical unless people start saying “Ubuntu” simply to mean “operating system.” Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment. As one court explained:
The owner of a mark is not required to constantly monitor every nook and cranny of the entire nation and to fire both barrels of his shotgun instantly upon spotting a possible infringer.
Quite simply, the view that a trademark holder must trawl the internet and respond to every unauthorized use (or even every infringing use) is a myth
You are just flat-out wrong here.
Konami is not "required" to shut down the Shadow Moses fan project or somehow risk losing their MSG trademark. That's just ridiculous.
In fact, I don't even see how Shadow Moses was using the Metal Gear Solid TRADEMARK in the first place. A trademark is a very specific thing (the stylized MGS logo in this case), not "anything related to the IP".
Unless tons of stealth games suddenly start referring to themselves as "Metal Gear Solids", and Konami does nothing about it, they're in no danger whatsoever of the brand name becoming genericized (ala Kleenex).
Konami shut down this project because it could potentially harm sales of their own remake down the line. That's it. They certainly have every right to protect their IP in this manner, but it's not because "they had to or risk losing the IP", or because "consumers would become confused" (though the latter may very well be how they try to spin it).
First of all, thanks for comparing my question to a 3 year old's understanding of things. What a pleasant way to start your response.
Second of all, if what you say is true, then why would the FBI's demand for Apple to push an update to the device have any effect? The whole story is about how the FBI wants Apple to break the "10 failed attempts erases the key" mechanism with a software update, which apparently is totally possible for Apple to do. So your understanding must be wrong here. Apple has the ability, with a software update, to prevent the device from erasing the key after 10 attempts. If they were unable to do so, they would be refusing the order purely on technical grounds.
Third, this model doesn't feature the Secure Enclave (or at least as you're describing it). That was added in later models. (The 5S and onwards). From one analysis: "On the iPhone 5C, the passcode delay and device erasure are implemented in software".
And finally, learn the difference between "it's" and "its", especially when you're trying to sound smart.
OK, so after 10 failed attempts, the Operating System (software) wipes the key, right? This in fact is what the DOJ wants Apple to do, push an updated O/S that doesn't wipe the key after 10 attempts. So it follows that the key wiping part must be controlled by software.
So why can't they image the phone, try 9 attempts, and then restore the image? Wouldn't that reset the "failed attempts" counter to 0?
Conventional farming requires massive amounts of land. This lets them go vertical and grow way more in the same square footage. I imagine that's where much of the profit potential lies.
They are also able to grow in an optimal environment (LEDs tuned to ideal wavelengths, precisely controlled temperature/humidity, etc) which should produce increased yields compared to regular field farming. They are also able to recycle 98% of their water.
If you can grow (and sell!) 10x the lettuce in the same area, it's easy to imagine that handily offsetting the energy & water costs they're incurring by growing indoors.
I have a NEC Silentwriter Superscript 660i laser printer that I convinced my parents to buy for me in high school (in 1995) when I became the editor for our school paper. Microsoft Publisher 95 on a cutting edge Pentium 160, good times.
The thing is an absolute beast and just won't die. For part of its life it was used as a primary office printer at a startup company too, printing thousands and thousands of pages. Just a workhorse. It's so ancient I've had to use HP Laserjet 4P drivers since Windows XP, because they never made drivers for it newer than Windows 9x.
It's already pretty much happened (proprietary concerns notwithstanding) with email addresses.
Email addresses have largely become a defacto standard for login usernames.
It's pretty easy to envision a near future where someone "calls your email", and it transparently maps to the phone # you have registered for that address. In fact that's already essentially how it works in certain applications (eg, Skype and iMessage).
And to your point, an email address certainly isn't guaranteed to be "lifetime permanent", but for practical purposes it's generally "permanent enough".
Now that other content providers have their own distribution systems, they don't really need Netflix any more.
This is exactly why Netflix is going gangbusters on producing their own (high-quality) content.
Once the digital-distribution playing field has levelled somewhat, the content-owners will (once again) hold all the cards. Netflix is preparing for that.
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We have a system that can self-teach itself to play many games, with no specific programming on how to beat those games.
That is a massive difference from say, Deep Blue vs Kasparov. Deep Blue was specifically programmed to play Chess. AlphaGo was essentially fed a bunch of Go games and figured out how to play by itself. Surely you see the qualitative difference in that.
Is there a reason we cannot describe the human brain as a black box mathematical function that can play "the game of life"? Isn't the brain a self-teaching neural network that learns to respond to various inputs with the correct outputs?
Of course this isn't a true general purpose AI yet. But I think you're downplaying the significance of what it can do.
Sorry for the double reply, but I thought I would add that you should direct your friend to both the article I posted, highlighting this bit:
And also, to the Mattel vs RCA case which is linked at the end of that article, which specifically deals with parody (Mattel was pissed about the "Barbie Girl" song by Aqua. Mattel's claim was dismissed, parody is protected. The judge famously stated "The parties are advised to chill.").
You know what dude? Kudos to you.
Too many people just refuse to even admit they might've possibly misspoken about something. I learned some stuff too from this exchange too.
High five. Have a great weekend.
Here is an article from the EFF about it:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
You are just flat-out wrong here.
Konami is not "required" to shut down the Shadow Moses fan project or somehow risk losing their MSG trademark. That's just ridiculous.
In fact, I don't even see how Shadow Moses was using the Metal Gear Solid TRADEMARK in the first place. A trademark is a very specific thing (the stylized MGS logo in this case), not "anything related to the IP".
Tons of fan-made games have been made over the years without issue.
Example: http://openxcom.org/. You're suggesting Firaxis is in danger of losing their Xcom IP because of this?
Can you cite a single incident of this ever happening?
Sorry to be a pedant, but that's 4 possibilities, from two variables (correctness of scientists, and whether or not we take action).
Yeah... no.
Unless tons of stealth games suddenly start referring to themselves as "Metal Gear Solids", and Konami does nothing about it, they're in no danger whatsoever of the brand name becoming genericized (ala Kleenex).
Konami shut down this project because it could potentially harm sales of their own remake down the line. That's it. They certainly have every right to protect their IP in this manner, but it's not because "they had to or risk losing the IP", or because "consumers would become confused" (though the latter may very well be how they try to spin it).
Yeah we've played Half Life Source on the DK2, worked great.
First of all, thanks for comparing my question to a 3 year old's understanding of things. What a pleasant way to start your response.
Second of all, if what you say is true, then why would the FBI's demand for Apple to push an update to the device have any effect? The whole story is about how the FBI wants Apple to break the "10 failed attempts erases the key" mechanism with a software update, which apparently is totally possible for Apple to do. So your understanding must be wrong here. Apple has the ability, with a software update, to prevent the device from erasing the key after 10 attempts. If they were unable to do so, they would be refusing the order purely on technical grounds.
Third, this model doesn't feature the Secure Enclave (or at least as you're describing it). That was added in later models. (The 5S and onwards). From one analysis: "On the iPhone 5C, the passcode delay and device erasure are implemented in software".
And finally, learn the difference between "it's" and "its", especially when you're trying to sound smart.
Oh gee, thank you. "Space is big", nobody ever thought of that before. Paradox resolved, everybody go home.
Your "educated guess" is #9 out of 20 of the proposed solutions in the list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
OK, so after 10 failed attempts, the Operating System (software) wipes the key, right? This in fact is what the DOJ wants Apple to do, push an updated O/S that doesn't wipe the key after 10 attempts. So it follows that the key wiping part must be controlled by software.
So why can't they image the phone, try 9 attempts, and then restore the image? Wouldn't that reset the "failed attempts" counter to 0?
I have no mod points today, so let me instead simply thank you for the shocking amount of insight you are injecting into this thread.
Google's pet AI just got good at Go, a feat considered insurmountable for current AIs until, well, it happened.
And the kicker is, it wasn't even programmed to play Go.
I'm no longer so sure that general-purpose AI capable of self-taught complex problem solving is decades away...
Conventional farming requires massive amounts of land. This lets them go vertical and grow way more in the same square footage. I imagine that's where much of the profit potential lies.
They are also able to grow in an optimal environment (LEDs tuned to ideal wavelengths, precisely controlled temperature/humidity, etc) which should produce increased yields compared to regular field farming. They are also able to recycle 98% of their water.
If you can grow (and sell!) 10x the lettuce in the same area, it's easy to imagine that handily offsetting the energy & water costs they're incurring by growing indoors.
Can Betteridge's Law Of Headlines Be Applied 100% of the Time?
Here is a graph (similar to the one you presented) showing CO2/temperature correlation over 400k years: http://www.skepticalscience.co...
1) Notice how the CO2 never goes over 300ppm.
Now here is a graph of what CO2 levels are doing today: http://photos1.blogger.com/blo...
2) Notice how the CO2 has shot way past 300ppm and is still climbing to the fucking moon.
Now please explain again why there's no difference between today and the historical "spikes"?
So... the US military should wait until it DOESN'T have that safety net, before starting down the road of weaning itself off oil?
Reducing dependence on oil (foreign or domestic... they will both eventually run dry) is in the US's long term strategic interests. Period.
If you're arguing against that, you're simply not thinking long term enough.
I have a NEC Silentwriter Superscript 660i laser printer that I convinced my parents to buy for me in high school (in 1995) when I became the editor for our school paper. Microsoft Publisher 95 on a cutting edge Pentium 160, good times.
The thing is an absolute beast and just won't die. For part of its life it was used as a primary office printer at a startup company too, printing thousands and thousands of pages. Just a workhorse. It's so ancient I've had to use HP Laserjet 4P drivers since Windows XP, because they never made drivers for it newer than Windows 9x.
It's already pretty much happened (proprietary concerns notwithstanding) with email addresses.
Email addresses have largely become a defacto standard for login usernames.
It's pretty easy to envision a near future where someone "calls your email", and it transparently maps to the phone # you have registered for that address. In fact that's already essentially how it works in certain applications (eg, Skype and iMessage).
And to your point, an email address certainly isn't guaranteed to be "lifetime permanent", but for practical purposes it's generally "permanent enough".
This is exactly why Netflix is going gangbusters on producing their own (high-quality) content.
Once the digital-distribution playing field has levelled somewhat, the content-owners will (once again) hold all the cards. Netflix is preparing for that.
Why the fuck can't they port IE11 to Vista?
I thought Valve was going to steal the show, but with their recently revealed screen problems it looks like Occulus is still the one to beat.
To be fair Leia starts trash talking Vader and Tarkin right away too.
"I should have know you'd be holding Vader's leash, I could smell your foul stench when I came aboard!"
That being said... yeah Ren is no Vader.
That can be the 2nd one. And hopefully that one flies a dozen times or more before being put in a museum.
This one is already "first payload booster to make a controlled landing", which is really the most critically important part.
What if there's an accident and it blows up on its 2nd flight? Just lost a piece of history.
Re-using it is just standard engineering and maintenance at this point, it's the first landing that's really the historical accomplishment.
Fuck me, they cast LaBeouf?