Major reason being: Now you need a smartphone with google maps.
The assumption is that most everyone will have (or at least, have access to) a smart phone anyway. Given the way things are going, that's not such a bad assumption.
As for needing Google Maps, that would be true if the system was proprietary, but since it's open-source, any organization can use it independently -- neither using Google sofwware nor accessing Google servers is required.
Can't we? I recall getting a lot more spam a decade or go than I receive now. (Most of the spam I still get is more like "ham", i.e. funding requests from politicians whose mailing lists I don't recall ever having signed up for. The really obnoxious penis-pill / Nigerian-prince type stuff has mostly gone away)
If you really want to be fair, you can say in this case Musk's approach is to crawl, announce that you're going to win the marathon 12 months from now, walk and then run.
Did you ever actually try to use a ZX81?... You see, I didn't just try a ZX81 out at the computer museum once, I actually owned a ZX81 and those keyboards were awful, just plain bloody awful.
I sure did -- I spent most of third grade with painful bruises on all of my fingertips. It was totally worth it, though;)
C'mon, as programmers/engineers we should understand Elon's thought process here... it has nothing to with "who should go first" and everything to do with his dawning realization that digging large-diameter tunnels is hard and that it will be much more productive to start with a small tunnel and see how it goes before investing in digging a big tunnel.
Elon (quite reasonably) wants to start small and work his way up, but (less reasonably) is pretending that he is scaling down for sociological/fairness reasons rather than technical/economic ones.
AFACT, absolutely nothing, other than that they both hold policy positions that antagonize liberals.
The fact that they are giving each other awards suggests to me that the only thing holding the Republican Party together these days is their collective urge to "piss on the other team".
Fun, in a sort of Lord-of-the-Flies, junior-high-locker-room-towel-snapping sort of way, but not exactly a viable long-term philosophy for running a first-world country. Hopefully when the Republicans get their asses handed to them by voters this fall they will remember that they are expected to serve the country's interests, not just snap towels at the nerds.
Speaking as an HOA board member who tries not to suck, I think there are several common motivations for someone to join an HOA board. From best to worst:
1. To help solve problems and keep your building/neighborhood from turning into a dysfunctional shithole. 2. To attend meetings and socialize, and feel at least somewhat important/relevant to your community. 3. To revel in the awesome power of forcing your neighbors to do follow your command, and hassling them if they don't obey.
If you drive out the type-1 people, or if you are a type-1 person and don't join your HOA board or attend HOA meetings (because HOA's suck!) then you leave the HOA's voting positions open for the other types of people to fill. At best you'll get a bunch of 2's and the HOA will become a social club (possibly entertaining but mostly useless); at worst, enough 3's will show up to make everyone's life miserable.
What's going to happen is that the car is going to come to a stop until/unless you press the "override" button. Once you've done that, you can do whatever you like, and take responsibility for whatever outcome occurs.
Unless you're an expert on the subject, back-of-the-envelope calculations in a Slashdot post are probably not the most accurate way to estimate sea level rise.
Fortunately, more knowledgeable people have done more sophisticated analyses of this very hypothetical, and they put their estimates closer to 3.44 meters, aka 11 feet of sea-level rise.
Fortunately for us, it's unlikely that all the Antarctic ice will melt any time soon.
One of the reasons that employees are reluctant to exploit human mangers is because of the guilt they'd feel. There'd be less guilt in exploiting the oversight weaknesses of an AI, and it'd become a game.
Aren't you forgetting the employees' other motivation -- wanting to keep their jobs?
People will put up with a lot in return for a steady paycheck, and it's unlikely that employees looking to "exploit the system" would go undetected for long.
If the movie is bad, then bad CGI won't redeem it.
If the movie is mediocre, bad CGI might tip it into the "bad" category, but who cares? The movie was mediocre to begin with, and with so many movies being released, there's no reason to settle for watching mediocre ones.
Or just go looking around the second hand PC stores for a system with a Windows7 key. Quite literally, I would see shops and stores throwing the empty PC case along with the Windows license key glued on the side.
Ah, but that would be copyright infringement, and as Microsoft loves to remind us, copyright infringement is THEFT!
Why would such machines want to support parasitic humans?
Because we parasitic humans designed them to want to support us.
Too many people think that AI inevitably means machines that think and act like humans, including all of humans' moral failings. While that is one possible outcome, it is certainly not the only outcome, nor even the most likely one. Human behavior was shaped by millennia of natural evolution; machine behavior is shaped solely by the humans who develop the machines. Expecting machines to spontaneously start acting like humans is about as rational expecting cars to start spontaneously acting like horses.
By the way, I have never heard of "fizzbuzz", so I googled it. Top response shows basically what is needed, which is how I would handle your request if I was a programmer. Now that I know about it, I'll just memorize the four or five methods they showed in various languages
I'm pretty sure memorizing four or five implementations of FizzBuzz is a lot more work than simply coming up with a solution to the problem using your basic programming skills -- assuming you have basic programming skills, of course -- which is the point of the exercise. Sounds like FizzBuzz has become too well-known to be effective anymore?
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Major reason being: Now you need a smartphone with google maps.
The assumption is that most everyone will have (or at least, have access to) a smart phone anyway. Given the way things are going, that's not such a bad assumption.
As for needing Google Maps, that would be true if the system was proprietary, but since it's open-source, any organization can use it independently -- neither using Google sofwware nor accessing Google servers is required.
Can't we? I recall getting a lot more spam a decade or go than I receive now. (Most of the spam I still get is more like "ham", i.e. funding requests from politicians whose mailing lists I don't recall ever having signed up for. The really obnoxious penis-pill / Nigerian-prince type stuff has mostly gone away)
If you really want to be fair, you can say in this case Musk's approach is to crawl, announce that you're going to win the marathon 12 months from now, walk and then run.
FTFY.
"advanced" doesn't necessarily mean "ethical".
A villain could use an AI for nefarious purposes just as easily as a hero could use them to better humanity.
Did you ever actually try to use a ZX81? ... You see, I didn't just try a ZX81 out at the computer museum once, I actually owned a ZX81 and those keyboards were awful, just plain bloody awful.
I sure did -- I spent most of third grade with painful bruises on all of my fingertips. It was totally worth it, though ;)
C'mon, as programmers/engineers we should understand Elon's thought process here... it has nothing to with "who should go first" and everything to do with his dawning realization that digging large-diameter tunnels is hard and that it will be much more productive to start with a small tunnel and see how it goes before investing in digging a big tunnel.
Elon (quite reasonably) wants to start small and work his way up, but (less reasonably) is pretending that he is scaling down for sociological/fairness reasons rather than technical/economic ones.
Elon, my road bike is worth more than my car, you insensitive clod!
It might be just the thing to power your interstellar spacecraft, though.
OTOH, the secret to never accomplishing anything is to stop trying.
This problem was 100% solved back in the 80's. C'mon Apple, do the courageous thing and follow suit!
... but, will they start backing up [what remains of] their data afterwards?
Your president has the mentality of a small child. Many people do, what's your point?
That people can and should act like responsible adults?
AFACT, absolutely nothing, other than that they both hold policy positions that antagonize liberals.
The fact that they are giving each other awards suggests to me that the only thing holding the Republican Party together these days is their collective urge to "piss on the other team".
Fun, in a sort of Lord-of-the-Flies, junior-high-locker-room-towel-snapping sort of way, but not exactly a viable long-term philosophy for running a first-world country. Hopefully when the Republicans get their asses handed to them by voters this fall they will remember that they are expected to serve the country's interests, not just snap towels at the nerds.
Speaking as an HOA board member who tries not to suck, I think there are several common motivations for someone to join an HOA board. From best to worst:
1. To help solve problems and keep your building/neighborhood from turning into a dysfunctional shithole.
2. To attend meetings and socialize, and feel at least somewhat important/relevant to your community.
3. To revel in the awesome power of forcing your neighbors to do follow your command, and hassling them if they don't obey.
If you drive out the type-1 people, or if you are a type-1 person and don't join your HOA board or attend HOA meetings (because HOA's suck!) then you leave the HOA's voting positions open for the other types of people to fill. At best you'll get a bunch of 2's and the HOA will become a social club (possibly entertaining but mostly useless); at worst, enough 3's will show up to make everyone's life miserable.
What's going to happen is that the car is going to come to a stop until/unless you press the "override" button. Once you've done that, you can do whatever you like, and take responsibility for whatever outcome occurs.
Unless you're an expert on the subject, back-of-the-envelope calculations in a Slashdot post are probably not the most accurate way to estimate sea level rise.
Fortunately, more knowledgeable people have done more sophisticated analyses of this very hypothetical, and they put their estimates closer to 3.44 meters, aka 11 feet of sea-level rise.
Fortunately for us, it's unlikely that all the Antarctic ice will melt any time soon.
but they got their start as a Veblen good.
I assure you they did not start that way.
One of the reasons that employees are reluctant to exploit human mangers is because of the guilt they'd feel. There'd be less guilt in exploiting the oversight weaknesses of an AI, and it'd become a game.
Aren't you forgetting the employees' other motivation -- wanting to keep their jobs?
People will put up with a lot in return for a steady paycheck, and it's unlikely that employees looking to "exploit the system" would go undetected for long.
If the move is good, then bad CGI won't ruin it.
If the movie is bad, then bad CGI won't redeem it.
If the movie is mediocre, bad CGI might tip it into the "bad" category, but who cares? The movie was mediocre to begin with, and with so many movies being released, there's no reason to settle for watching mediocre ones.
Or just go looking around the second hand PC stores for a system with a Windows7 key. Quite literally, I would see shops and stores throwing the empty PC case along with the Windows license key glued on the side.
Ah, but that would be copyright infringement, and as Microsoft loves to remind us, copyright infringement is THEFT!
Why would such machines want to support parasitic humans?
Because we parasitic humans designed them to want to support us.
Too many people think that AI inevitably means machines that think and act like humans, including all of humans' moral failings. While that is one possible outcome, it is certainly not the only outcome, nor even the most likely one. Human behavior was shaped by millennia of natural evolution; machine behavior is shaped solely by the humans who develop the machines. Expecting machines to spontaneously start acting like humans is about as rational expecting cars to start spontaneously acting like horses.
By the way, I have never heard of "fizzbuzz", so I googled it. Top response shows basically what is needed, which is how I would handle your request if I was a programmer. Now that I know about it, I'll just memorize the four or five methods they showed in various languages
I'm pretty sure memorizing four or five implementations of FizzBuzz is a lot more work than simply coming up with a solution to the problem using your basic programming skills -- assuming you have basic programming skills, of course -- which is the point of the exercise. Sounds like FizzBuzz has become too well-known to be effective anymore?
Or, perhaps it is a better tool than what you are using today, and you are letting your skills age and become out of date.
The only real way to tell is to try it both ways and see which way works better in practice. May the best developer/envangelist win! :)
Well, there is a precedent.
Not "somehow" -- there's a very specific mechanism: the walls are invisible.
The fix is easy enough, however -- just don't clean the class, and eventually the bloodstains will render the problem areas opaque.