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  1. Re: AI is always "right around the corner". on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    Then why when it translates I get ads specific to the content of what I had translated?

  2. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    So like...people.

  3. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    It can make prediction, take action, and give you data before you even know you need it.
    To me, its pretty obvious automated cars* will be coupled with traffic systems, and route control. After that, we won't even need lines on the road.

    Of course it can learn how to fly. That fact that it can learn it different then you is besides the point. There is no technical reason Google car can't be coupled with autonomous aircraft systems. At which point it will know how to fly better then any human.

    *are kids will call them 'cars'

  4. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 0

    It easy to be wrong when you hide under AC.

  5. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    Probable by inserting a bunch of data from the problems into a machine that spite out a formula we don't understand(which has already happened)

    It's called Eureqa.
    http://www.nutonian.com/downlo... [nutonian.com]
    http://creativemachines.cornel... [cornell.edu]
    http://creativemachines.cornel... [cornell.edu]

  6. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    When it comes to routing, yes, it's smarter then the ENTIRE human race.

  7. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    " BY FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS."
    all caps. then clearly you are right. OR you're an idiot who gets angry when he has been shown he is wrong.

    Well we have machines that make decisions now, but you don't consider it AI because it follow a set of rules? well, then by that logic the human brain isn't intelligent either, it's just a system following rules. We do know that , if not all, the vast majority of decisions are made before consciously thought about.

  8. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    "Until a machine can come up with an idea of it's own, "
    I'd like to introduce you to Eureqa. A machine that comes up with idea on it's own. Ideas that work, but in some case people haven't figured out why they work.

    It's called Eureqa.
    http://www.nutonian.com/downlo... [nutonian.com]
    http://creativemachines.cornel... [cornell.edu]
    http://creativemachines.cornel... [cornell.edu]

  9. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    That's not true. We have machines that learn new things right now.

  10. Re:AI is always on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    Ah, so what you are telling us is that AI is a Scotsman?

  11. Re:Now thats incentive on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    Is it? Look at the last 30. 1984. Medical science is so much more advanced. I know people who have computers in them so they can walk without much pain.
    Now, think about the next 30, but building on it with far better science and technology.

    Nothing he talks about is intrinsically impossible, I don't think it's that far fetched. I think the only real issue is a small enough power system, or hardware that takes much less power.
    Even then, a lab has a lobster that generate electricity fro it's fat. If we can do that in humans, then power may not be that big of an issue for computer systems. As opposed to enough power to run a mechanical servo that can hold up your body.

    Will we figure out how to do it? I don't know. I do know there is no known reason that would stop it, and that once someone did it, everyone will want to be on board.

  12. Re:Now thats incentive on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1

    If you brought a computer scientist form 1970, he would consider much of what is done as AI.
    Hell, some one form 1990 would consider Google to be an AI.
    The problem is, every time a problem is solved, the definition of true AI changes. Its definition as slippery as a greased Scotsman.

    I have a phone, it tells me all kind of information I don't even ask for, it just 'knows' I will probably need it. So, if I had this device in 1970 it would most definitely be considered AI.

  13. Re: Now thats incentive on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 2

    So your idea depends on people being'f some sort of magical container that can never be understood?

    ") then our decisions become stochastic"
    no, they don't.

    "TRUST ME it is not"
    oh, well if your argument ignores all the modern data, and you sue caps to say 'TRUST ME', you must be right.

    " It is only natural because machines cannot store all information about everything."
    They will have near instant access to all the information. In effect they will have all information. It will be stored on the internet.

    The first wave of the robot 'Apocalypse'* will be economical, and it started in 1999.

    *in the literal meaning not movie meaning.

  14. Re:If they approve allowing calls on planes... on FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact · · Score: 0

    So you solution to other people being intrusive is to put shit in my ears?
    IS that what you think when you neighbor cranks his music at 3AM? well, I guess I'll just put my earbuds in. herp, derp.

  15. Re:what is internet of things on Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    It's using the internet to control the devices around you. lights, thermostats, that sort of thing. The idea and term is over 20 years old.

  16. Re:Trust on Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "M$" makes you sound like some sort of drooling loon.

  17. Re:It's 2014 on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Switching inputs = use; so the screen would pop on when you did it.

  18. Re:It's 2014 on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    To each there own, I prefer the Logitech marble thumb trackball for gaming.
    Although sometime the group I play with asks me to use a mouse or not play sniper.

    And before anyone accuses me of it: Yes, Yes I did post that just to brag about my gaming skills. I'm old ad I love debunking the old people can't play FPS games.

  19. Re:Why do we have screen savers? on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Why would you use a power saver and just not turn it off?

    And why do you think appliance aren't also become more energy efficient? Can you just not grasp more than one thing at a time?
    I mean, there is exactly no reason for your rant.

  20. Re:Why do we have screen savers? on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    And in what way does turning off the plasma screen cause burn in?

  21. Re:It's 2014 on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Yes, and no one n the world has more then 1 person in there home using the internet.

  22. Re:It's 2014 on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Depends on the business. If it's a business will decades long history of abusing consumers, then yes, the government should compete.

    If the government mandates citizens should have a specific kind of service, the government should also sell that service.

    For example: When car insurance first started becoming mandatory, the government should sell the min. insurance amount.
    In fact, that was part of the plan, but the same industry that lied to make it mandatory, also lied to make it so the government wouldn't provide that service.
    In short: Insurance companies are a horrible thing to have privatized.

  23. Re:It's 2014 on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    it's now 15.7% it went down on 7/1/2014

  24. Re:Hail UTC on Russia Moves From Summer Time To Standard Time · · Score: 1

    err. tide tables.

  25. Re:Hail UTC on Russia Moves From Summer Time To Standard Time · · Score: 1

    What tides are published without location?