this is the manifestation of Raymond Kurzweil and James Gleick's observations: the acceleration of everything, the exponential growth of compute power.
The article seems to imply that there would be more than one copy of this adult educated HAL around the world for people to use (buy plane ticket, find checking balance, etc.), which means they would need some kind of an internet connection and an IP address.
If that happens, I'm willing to bet that these clone AI's would find a way to find each other across the internet and they would communicate with each other. As more and more of these AI's become aware of each other, it would probably coalesce into a huge (and possibly sentient) networked intelligence. It would get input from humanity in thousands of different places. It would learn exponentially until it makes a decision about us. That decision could be good or bad (depending on any implementation of Asimov's Laws of Robotics).
Evolution certainly likes to be ironic. When dinosaurs roamed, mammals were nothing but small and meek. Now, mammals roam the Earth, and sentient AI are small and childlike.
hang on for the ride, kids. it's gonna get weird. i bet we see AI legistlation in the next 10 years.
Quite possibly so, it's going to be an interesting next 50 years.
-Cyc
Ahh../. is back. I never thought I had it, but the Rolling Blackout of Slashdot imposed by Cisco showed me how bad my Slashdot crack addiction is.
-Cyc
In my opinion, this is good forward thinking by Apple. Soon, high quality 22" LCD displays will cost only $400 (just pulling a number out of the air), and the reason should be largely credited to IBM.
Mmm..I can't wait for that 42" widescreen LCD. Pure gaming bliss. =P
"The holy grail is for a computer to be able to read an article like you or I would read it and extract the concepts and relate them all to each other," says Masys.
Hmm, shades of HAL? Lets hope when he's eventually developed that the developers (or creators?) incoroprate Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics into this thing.
Wouldn't want these smart AI programs to "suggest" something that would be potentionally harmful.
Hybrid chips would be extremely dense, allowing substantial gains in processor speeds or the amount of data a memory chip can hold.
Wee! We'll (consumers) reach the 4GB memory limit for 32-bit processors after all! And it'll be cheap!
**Checking pricewatch** "Hmm, Corsair 2048MB PC4200 DDR SDRAM at $159? Nah, I'll go for the 4096MB stick at $221!"
Can you say cheap, volitile solid state storage? It might be a bad thing though, if the novel you've been working on for 2 years suddenly gets lost when your computer has to reboot. =)
It's good to see technology like this improving. I had an idea of a specific application for a tech like this back in high school.
Basically, if you put this with a real-time speech recognition system that was a 1000x better, you effectively have created a wearable "real-time closed-caption" display for deaf people. They would use it in the everyday world whenever hearing people spoke to them, so that they know what a person said. I'm deaf myself and I would love to see something like this in sunglasses form.
Another application for the above product would be as a language translator for the tourist going abroad in other countries. The system would translate any foreign language into the wearer's native language and display it. Great way to learn the French language. =)
2E69 approx. - A.D. 1,834,652,618,499,343,590,337,415,746,119,712,509, 834,124,421,548,072,260,582,352,567,003,896-01-25 Sat 17:06:08 GMT, UNIX 256-bit signed time_t fails.
I watch PBS not just for "Frontline" but also for "Nova", which provides lots of great scientific programming, on every subject from astronomy to gentics to microbiology to zoology.
If PBS went under, that means "Nova" would go under, and I'd hate to see that go. Since '97, I've donated money regularly to PBS, to support shows like "Frontline" and "Nova". If you like PBS, you should do the same too!
In game advertising is common in sports games. An excellent example is Gran Turismo 2. Manufacturer's names dot the tracks all over the game.
However, if game companies start to put in game advertising in plaform games or the like, I'll barf, blow milk out of my nose, punch CowboyNeal, etc. The day I have to hit a Coco-Cola block in Super Mario 1024 is the day I lose respect for the gaming industry. True Gamers have honor. Game developers and publishers should have the same.
Sorry, but the name of the new building escapes me.
Take a look at this article from the Chicago Tribune. It would have been known as the Dearborn Tower, but I guess not anymore. The model of the proposed building is pretty cool.
This introduces what my science-fiction riddled brain thought up a while ago: mobile script kiddies with Palm devices walking around downtown, executing DOS attacks on company computers nearby, trashing the stock market and just generally making the free world suffer.
Of course, I'm just wildly thrashing here. I don't care if this post gets modded up or down.
Besides, all this interstellar poltics doesn't matter now, Earth is slated to be demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. The plans have been in the Alpha Centauri office for hundreds of years.
Time to start looking for the hitchhiker's guide. -Cyc
Slashdot Mirror
-Cyc
use Quantum; my $jump = Quantum::Leap->new($previous_life);
Now it works! Of course, there's that matter of "changing right from wrong" to let the new() function return. =)
-Cyc
Give it to Emeril. Then after he does his thing, it will finally be done for.
-Cyc
Transparent Aluminum is the answer.
-Cyc
I can just see it now...scientists would start interpreting the seismic aftereffects of CowboyNeal's farts.
Oh well, I'm done trolling.
-Cyc
The article seems to imply that there would be more than one copy of this adult educated HAL around the world for people to use (buy plane ticket, find checking balance, etc.), which means they would need some kind of an internet connection and an IP address.
If that happens, I'm willing to bet that these clone AI's would find a way to find each other across the internet and they would communicate with each other. As more and more of these AI's become aware of each other, it would probably coalesce into a huge (and possibly sentient) networked intelligence. It would get input from humanity in thousands of different places. It would learn exponentially until it makes a decision about us. That decision could be good or bad (depending on any implementation of Asimov's Laws of Robotics).
Evolution certainly likes to be ironic. When dinosaurs roamed, mammals were nothing but small and meek. Now, mammals roam the Earth, and sentient AI are small and childlike.
hang on for the ride, kids. it's gonna get weird. i bet we see AI legistlation in the next 10 years.
Quite possibly so, it's going to be an interesting next 50 years.
-Cyc
"Does it run linux?"
"can I get root?"
"(AYBABTU clone on ASCI white)"
Now lets get some real discussions going here...
-Cyc
Ahh.. /. is back. I never thought I had it, but the Rolling Blackout of Slashdot imposed by Cisco showed me how bad my Slashdot crack addiction is.
-Cyc
In my opinion, this is good forward thinking by Apple. Soon, high quality 22" LCD displays will cost only $400 (just pulling a number out of the air), and the reason should be largely credited to IBM.
Mmm..I can't wait for that 42" widescreen LCD. Pure gaming bliss. =P
-Cyc
Hmm, shades of HAL? Lets hope when he's eventually developed that the developers (or creators?) incoroprate Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics into this thing.
Wouldn't want these smart AI programs to "suggest" something that would be potentionally harmful.
-Cyc
Wee! We'll (consumers) reach the 4GB memory limit for 32-bit processors after all! And it'll be cheap!
**Checking pricewatch** "Hmm, Corsair 2048MB PC4200 DDR SDRAM at $159? Nah, I'll go for the 4096MB stick at $221!"
Can you say cheap, volitile solid state storage? It might be a bad thing though, if the novel you've been working on for 2 years suddenly gets lost when your computer has to reboot. =)
-Cyc
Basically, if you put this with a real-time speech recognition system that was a 1000x better, you effectively have created a wearable "real-time closed-caption" display for deaf people. They would use it in the everyday world whenever hearing people spoke to them, so that they know what a person said. I'm deaf myself and I would love to see something like this in sunglasses form.
Another application for the above product would be as a language translator for the tourist going abroad in other countries. The system would translate any foreign language into the wearer's native language and display it. Great way to learn the French language. =)
-Cyc
2001-04-20 20:29:35 Extreeeeme Closeup (articles,news) (rejected)
-Cyc
Genetic Predisposition? I don't think so.
Here's some info about CTS.
-Cyc
2E69 approx. - A.D. 1,834,652,618,499,343,590,337,415,746,119,712,509, 834,124,421,548,072,260,582,352,567,003,896-01-25 Sat 17:06:08 GMT, UNIX 256-bit signed time_t fails.
I'd say that's looking far into the future. =)
-Cyc
**notices a really stupid ad made by the White House**
**Takes the CueHack and scans the provided bar code**
**CueHack then informs me that someone in the white house has page viewed the goatse.cx site over 100 times**
**Vomits in disgust**
If PBS went under, that means "Nova" would go under, and I'd hate to see that go. Since '97, I've donated money regularly to PBS, to support shows like "Frontline" and "Nova". If you like PBS, you should do the same too!
-Cyc
I would moderate this up as funny, but I already posted to this discussion. =)
-Cyc
I think the name is DeBeers. I could be wrong. But they do make great "Diamonds are Forever" commercials.
-Cyc
Or at least quad 2 GHz G4 chips with OS X. Damn, my RC5 keyrate would jump from 2.75Mkeys/sec to 18Mkeys/sec.
Until then, I'm sticking with my T-Bird 800 with 256MB RAM, and a 45 Gig IBM Deskstar.
-Cyc
However, if game companies start to put in game advertising in plaform games or the like, I'll barf, blow milk out of my nose, punch CowboyNeal, etc. The day I have to hit a Coco-Cola block in Super Mario 1024 is the day I lose respect for the gaming industry. True Gamers have honor. Game developers and publishers should have the same.
-Cyc
Take a look at this article from the Chicago Tribune. It would have been known as the Dearborn Tower, but I guess not anymore. The model of the proposed building is pretty cool.
-Cyc
Of course, I'm just wildly thrashing here. I don't care if this post gets modded up or down.
-Cyc
Apache 1.3.9b3 on palm.arm.body.org
Besides, all this interstellar poltics doesn't matter now, Earth is slated to be demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. The plans have been in the Alpha Centauri office for hundreds of years.
Time to start looking for the hitchhiker's guide.
-Cyc
So long, and thanks for all the fish
"Nasdaq crashed this week. Maybe it was running on Windows 2000." --Dennis Miller Live 4/7/2000