The "AI," you're referring to doesn't mean what you think it does, because it doesn't exist. Hence, "vacuous."
The AI I am referring to is precisely what we are calling AI right now. Machine learning algorithms.
The intelligent part refers to human intelligence. We will never have that because we will not allow for quirks, independence, and insanity, and other aspects of intelligence.
Sorry but I can't mince my words here. That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The goal of AI is not, has never been, nor ever should be to copy the stupidity and inadequacies of humans. We are not the be all and end all of intelligence. The whole point of offloading this to a machine is to be better than that.
Offshore wind is incredibly expensive. You're thinking of onshore wind which comes in at 1/3rd of the cost. That said offshore wind has some benefits that onshore doesn't: Predictability, strength, and it doesn't take up land. However offshore wind pretty much loses on a cost basis quite spectacularly.
Errrrr you were on a roll right up until that point. Eating what people like (saturated sugars loaded into processed crap) is precisely what is preventing nice long lives for many in America. Because let's face it, eat what I like? You'll find me at Five Guys breakfast lunch and dinner followed soon after at the pharmacy getting a top-up for my insulin injector and blood pressure medication.
I came here to say this but thanks for adding some numbers to it.
My nextdoor neighbour is a blacksmith and makes those wonderful "old" style metal works you often see on doors and fences. Having someone make something in the country doesn't mean the industry is alive and well.
I did not see any example where someone says: "I did not buy that product because it lacked AI".
That's because you're turning the concept on it's head and overspecified what you're looking for. You may not hear anyone say "I didn't buy that because it lacked AI" but you've probably heard the reverse stupefied:
"I bought x because it is smart" "I bought y because it learns and does something automatically" "Hey check this out this device can tell me me and the other person apart"
Just because people don't know specifically what AI is in their devices doesn't mean it hasn't been part of their purchasing decisions.
I've already seen stories saying that the medical diagnoses made by IBM's Watson are just plain wrong. More examples will follow.
Cool story. Did you also see the one about how they beat humans at a game requiring strategic thinking? How about the story of someone who used the same concepts as used by Watson to identify previously unknown glitches in classic games?
I saw a car crash once. I conclude that cars have no future because the people didn't get to their destination.
To be fair that AI of yesterday was a fixed algorithm with a pre-defined path from inputs to outputs. What is different about it today is that the path is undefined. The whole concept of "machine learning" is what makes the AI of now very different to the AI of the past. Neither represent true intelligence, but the one in the past didn't even represent thought, just looking things up in a list.
Calling what we do now AI is a bit different to calling the "expert system" of the past AI as we did. That was ultimately just silly.
and has so far lasted far longer than any previous AI hype cycle.
Because on a fundamental level the ability for a system to learn to achieve an outcome is closer to "intelligence" than giving it a long set of queue cards and IF statements.
Why is AI an evolutionary dead end? If you're justifying that sentence with the following one then what will happen is exactly as the GP said, except that the name will change in the process.
There's nothing dead end about computers taking thinking off our hands. It's a technological end game salivated over by scifi writers for decades and the processes behind them are already solving some very real problems better than people can.
No, your other situation is the entire system called credit ratings. Equifax is just a part of the stupid.
Credit rating in a nutshell:
Person 1: Sir you have huge debt that means you must be good for it, here's a credit card with an even huger limit. Person 2: Sir you're homeless, your credit rating sucks. Have a smaller credit card we know you won't pay off. Person 3: Sir you're an engineer earning six figures who just moved into the country? We can give you a credit card with a $200 limit, but because you don't have a credit rating you'll have to pay us $200 for that card. You earn a lot and are intelligent, we can't use that as a basis for a credit system.
Of course not. I register them with the services I use to change currency into digital wallets who then register them with the government.
A one time wallet is a great idea if I have bitcoin, and buy something with bitcoin but even then all you've done is add a tracable and auditable element to the ledger, just another one time wallet that can be linked to you by the movements of goods or actual currency.
both DTSX and Atmos are BROKEN for home setups they do not enforce the placement or provide guidance strictly
The point of DTSX and Atmos to be placement independent and for the final system to be characterised in place. That's the whole reason they moved to an object based recording standard relying on a processor to determine the final output to the speakers. The processor can place the object in the correct location based on the characteristics of your setup without the sound designer ever having to mix to a set of constraints determined by optimal speaker positioning.
Yeah, that little tin-pot town with 8 million people in it and no cinemas...
Yep. You're perfectly right. I've been there your cinemas are shit puny little things crammed into what little space was available in the city. About the best I've seen was the BFI down in Waterloo and even that is pretty damn shit by IMAX standards. Population size/density doesn't mean you get good stuff.
"Sony 4K Video" "All screens are fitted with Dolby 6.1 surround."
Wow. so... early naughties era technology? I hope you weren't quoting those stats as something good because that is probably about the minimum expectation for a cinema these days.
You assume I'm riffing. I have access to some of the best cinemas in the country, including IMAX showcases, just a short Tube ride away. And I'll tell you that I'd prefer a projector in a living room.
No sorry I assumed you were in America. I didn't realise you were in London. I truly feel sorry for you. I've been to the "best" cinemas in London. It actually truly does suck. In terms of what you get your base ticket price is more than that of our most premium cinemas across the channel and the experience is crap in comparison.
Because ALL the things you're favouring (colour gamuts, HDR, Dolby, etc. etc. etc.) really mean nothing to me whatsoever
You're the one talking about your projector and saying it's the bees knees and better than any cinema. Not me. But congratulations, you not only moved the goalposts you decided you were playing a completely different sport.
I pity you, that you spend money chasing some perfection that only you can perceive, I really do.
Nope. I spend very little of my disposable money for very good entertainment with easily perceived differences. I pity you, those whose senses must have degraded to the point where you can't even tell that visually we still have a very long way to go for an image capable of meeting the limits of our incredible vision. Audio wise we're pretty much there though.
Compared against the vast number of new media and viewing that happens now compared to them, cinema is just about clinging on
London in a nutshell. Meanwhile over here admission numbers are excellent and business is so booming that there are rolling renovations of nearly every cinema in the country. Come swim across the channel and experience a proper cinema.
It's not just as good as any cinema... it's better.
Any cinema you frequenty maybe. Some of us don't go to $5 gooey seat shitboxes. Some of us frequenty Dolby Cinemas for quality that is unparlleled by any option you every have access to regardless of how big your buget may be.
People also forget that "1080p" is really "2 Megapixel". 4K might be "33 Megapixel" but there is no way in hell it's 10+ times better, or that you can see 10 times more detail at any sensible distance.
Detail? Who is saying just detail? The difference between a 1080p stream and a 4K HDR10 stream presented on a system that meets the requirement of Rec2020 is not 10 times, I agree. It would be more like 20 times better. Resolution is a laughably small part of the changes to video display and presentation in the past 5 years.
Sorry, but cinema is dying in my country. Too expensive. Empty most of the time. Too much upselling and ads. No technical incentive to watch it compared to buying even the cheapest of projectors.
Nope, just the cinemas you visit. There are plenty upscale cinemas even in your crappy country. In other countries cinemas are doing well including completely sold out sessions constantly, and if your cheapest of projectors can match the $40k Cristie projector then you need yoru glasses checked.
2. Good meeting software is web based and it does indicate who is speaking.
Shithouse software does this too. The article is a large list of whines that have been solved many times over by even dumb people which doesn't bode well for the author.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah because American companies would never cheat benchmarks or add backdoors. Right? RIGHT?
On shore wind has the same predictability as off shore wind.
It only is usually not as strong and not as steady.
Yes true. Thanks I used the wrong words. Steady is a much better way to describe it.
Before shuddering I really suggest you give it a try. A lovely garlic and butter escagot is a beautiful starter for any meal.
The "AI," you're referring to doesn't mean what you think it does, because it doesn't exist. Hence, "vacuous."
The AI I am referring to is precisely what we are calling AI right now. Machine learning algorithms.
The intelligent part refers to human intelligence. We will never have that because we will not allow for quirks, independence, and insanity, and other aspects of intelligence.
Sorry but I can't mince my words here. That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The goal of AI is not, has never been, nor ever should be to copy the stupidity and inadequacies of humans. We are not the be all and end all of intelligence. The whole point of offloading this to a machine is to be better than that.
To what extent that is an achievable goal, OTOH, is an open question.
Easy solution. Move to Berlin. It's an incredibly cheap European capital city to live in.
Meeting moved due to scheduling conflicts.
News at 11.
Offshore wind is incredibly expensive. You're thinking of onshore wind which comes in at 1/3rd of the cost.
That said offshore wind has some benefits that onshore doesn't: Predictability, strength, and it doesn't take up land. However offshore wind pretty much loses on a cost basis quite spectacularly.
I do also question why the GP thinks animals produce milk as well.
. Eat what you like
Errrrr you were on a roll right up until that point. Eating what people like (saturated sugars loaded into processed crap) is precisely what is preventing nice long lives for many in America. Because let's face it, eat what I like? You'll find me at Five Guys breakfast lunch and dinner followed soon after at the pharmacy getting a top-up for my insulin injector and blood pressure medication.
But that still doesn't make me feel good about gulping down live cultures of bacteria like that
I suggest you never eat again. Even more don't swallow anything ever, your mouth is full of disgusting live cultures.
I came here to say this but thanks for adding some numbers to it.
My nextdoor neighbour is a blacksmith and makes those wonderful "old" style metal works you often see on doors and fences. Having someone make something in the country doesn't mean the industry is alive and well.
AMD does not make chips. It designs them. They spun off their foundries as Global Foundries in 2009.
I did not see any example where someone says: "I did not buy that product because it lacked AI".
That's because you're turning the concept on it's head and overspecified what you're looking for. You may not hear anyone say "I didn't buy that because it lacked AI" but you've probably heard the reverse stupefied:
"I bought x because it is smart"
"I bought y because it learns and does something automatically"
"Hey check this out this device can tell me me and the other person apart"
Just because people don't know specifically what AI is in their devices doesn't mean it hasn't been part of their purchasing decisions.
I've already seen stories saying that the medical diagnoses made by IBM's Watson are just plain wrong. More examples will follow.
Cool story. Did you also see the one about how they beat humans at a game requiring strategic thinking? How about the story of someone who used the same concepts as used by Watson to identify previously unknown glitches in classic games?
I saw a car crash once. I conclude that cars have no future because the people didn't get to their destination.
To be fair that AI of yesterday was a fixed algorithm with a pre-defined path from inputs to outputs. What is different about it today is that the path is undefined. The whole concept of "machine learning" is what makes the AI of now very different to the AI of the past. Neither represent true intelligence, but the one in the past didn't even represent thought, just looking things up in a list.
Calling what we do now AI is a bit different to calling the "expert system" of the past AI as we did. That was ultimately just silly.
and has so far lasted far longer than any previous AI hype cycle.
Because on a fundamental level the ability for a system to learn to achieve an outcome is closer to "intelligence" than giving it a long set of queue cards and IF statements.
AI, too, is an evolutionary dead end.
It's a buzz word with a vacuous definition.
Why is AI an evolutionary dead end? If you're justifying that sentence with the following one then what will happen is exactly as the GP said, except that the name will change in the process.
There's nothing dead end about computers taking thinking off our hands. It's a technological end game salivated over by scifi writers for decades and the processes behind them are already solving some very real problems better than people can.
At some point you just need to get your developers glasses or fire your IT team.
I'm not a conspiracy theory kind of guy
But when I am, dammit if I don't go all out.
No, your other situation is the entire system called credit ratings. Equifax is just a part of the stupid.
Credit rating in a nutshell:
Person 1: Sir you have huge debt that means you must be good for it, here's a credit card with an even huger limit.
Person 2: Sir you're homeless, your credit rating sucks. Have a smaller credit card we know you won't pay off.
Person 3: Sir you're an engineer earning six figures who just moved into the country? We can give you a credit card with a $200 limit, but because you don't have a credit rating you'll have to pay us $200 for that card. You earn a lot and are intelligent, we can't use that as a basis for a credit system.
Of course not. I register them with the services I use to change currency into digital wallets who then register them with the government.
A one time wallet is a great idea if I have bitcoin, and buy something with bitcoin but even then all you've done is add a tracable and auditable element to the ledger, just another one time wallet that can be linked to you by the movements of goods or actual currency.
both DTSX and Atmos are BROKEN for home setups they do not enforce the placement or provide guidance strictly
The point of DTSX and Atmos to be placement independent and for the final system to be characterised in place. That's the whole reason they moved to an object based recording standard relying on a processor to determine the final output to the speakers. The processor can place the object in the correct location based on the characteristics of your setup without the sound designer ever having to mix to a set of constraints determined by optimal speaker positioning.
Or are you talking about something else?
London.
Yeah, that little tin-pot town with 8 million people in it and no cinemas...
Yep. You're perfectly right. I've been there your cinemas are shit puny little things crammed into what little space was available in the city. About the best I've seen was the BFI down in Waterloo and even that is pretty damn shit by IMAX standards. Population size/density doesn't mean you get good stuff.
"Sony 4K Video"
"All screens are fitted with Dolby 6.1 surround."
Wow. so ... early naughties era technology? I hope you weren't quoting those stats as something good because that is probably about the minimum expectation for a cinema these days.
You assume I'm riffing. I have access to some of the best cinemas in the country, including IMAX showcases, just a short Tube ride away. And I'll tell you that I'd prefer a projector in a living room.
No sorry I assumed you were in America. I didn't realise you were in London. I truly feel sorry for you. I've been to the "best" cinemas in London. It actually truly does suck. In terms of what you get your base ticket price is more than that of our most premium cinemas across the channel and the experience is crap in comparison.
Because ALL the things you're favouring (colour gamuts, HDR, Dolby, etc. etc. etc.) really mean nothing to me whatsoever
You're the one talking about your projector and saying it's the bees knees and better than any cinema. Not me. But congratulations, you not only moved the goalposts you decided you were playing a completely different sport.
I pity you, that you spend money chasing some perfection that only you can perceive, I really do.
Nope. I spend very little of my disposable money for very good entertainment with easily perceived differences. I pity you, those whose senses must have degraded to the point where you can't even tell that visually we still have a very long way to go for an image capable of meeting the limits of our incredible vision. Audio wise we're pretty much there though.
Compared against the vast number of new media and viewing that happens now compared to them, cinema is just about clinging on
London in a nutshell. Meanwhile over here admission numbers are excellent and business is so booming that there are rolling renovations of nearly every cinema in the country. Come swim across the channel and experience a proper cinema.
It's not just as good as any cinema... it's better.
Any cinema you frequenty maybe. Some of us don't go to $5 gooey seat shitboxes. Some of us frequenty Dolby Cinemas for quality that is unparlleled by any option you every have access to regardless of how big your buget may be.
People also forget that "1080p" is really "2 Megapixel". 4K might be "33 Megapixel" but there is no way in hell it's 10+ times better, or that you can see 10 times more detail at any sensible distance.
Detail? Who is saying just detail? The difference between a 1080p stream and a 4K HDR10 stream presented on a system that meets the requirement of Rec2020 is not 10 times, I agree. It would be more like 20 times better. Resolution is a laughably small part of the changes to video display and presentation in the past 5 years.
Sorry, but cinema is dying in my country. Too expensive. Empty most of the time. Too much upselling and ads. No technical incentive to watch it compared to buying even the cheapest of projectors.
Nope, just the cinemas you visit. There are plenty upscale cinemas even in your crappy country. In other countries cinemas are doing well including completely sold out sessions constantly, and if your cheapest of projectors can match the $40k Cristie projector then you need yoru glasses checked.
2. Good meeting software is web based and it does indicate who is speaking.
Shithouse software does this too. The article is a large list of whines that have been solved many times over by even dumb people which doesn't bode well for the author.
Conference calls are a horrible waste of time. People should jump on planes and fly around the world for 1 hour meetings the way it's supposed to be.