Reminds me of Star Trek, particular Next Generation. Obviously the product of the boomer generation, and they had entire planets where people could walk around practically naked (it was TV after all) without worry. Seems like an admirable goal really, a society with that little crime.
The same is said of every generation. Were hippies and flower power any less ridiculed?
Young people, by virtue of having been alive for less time, are less experienced. Some would say less cynical and worn down. It will always be that way.
It worked okay but after what happened in Japan no one is going back to that design. No, not Fukushima, Monjou. Numerous attempts, numerous failures including some quite serious accidents. Liquid sodium will spontaneously ignite on contact with air, and explode on contact with water so fire control is a bit of a problem, and of course they had just such a fire.
In the end it just proved too problematic and costly to bother with, and decommissioning is going to be expensive too.
As you say, business reasons, no-one is going to throw money at that idea again.
Probably not documents marked "top secret, property of Qualcomm", but having had a close relationship for years and probably designed certain aspects of the iPhone around Qualcomm parts when it came to getting Intel to provide a suitable modem some of that built up knowledge leaked out.
"We did it this way with Qualcomm, it worked better..." and the NDA was just violated. Which is why NDAs are generally a bad idea but you can't avoid them when designing stuff like this.
To be fair humans have trouble with this too. When we see things at a distance or in poor lighting our brains do a lot of assuming to help decide what it is. Something in an unusual context can often be confusing at first, as the brain goes for the most common and likely options first.
One way to help with this is to train the AI to recognize when it is uncertain. A lot of effort goes in to getting high accuracy levels, but usually very little in to recognizing situations when the answer just isn't clear.
The other thing that really helps humans is time. It's easier to determine a sheep from a rock when you see it move its head, or even just see its coat moving in the breeze. Static photos don't offer that additional information.
There are ways to limit the harm that this sort of work can do. Military orgs around the world have been studying it for decades, to try to prevent their soldiers getting PTSD and becoming ineffective. They have also been studying how to make it worse, as a tactic to use against the enemy.
One example would be limiting exposure. Rather than doing this for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week they might get only be assigned half an hour a day, with the option to continue for up to say two hours if they feel they are okay to do that. The limited exposure and granting of some control over the process really helps psychologically.
Of course the problem for Facebook is that they don't have enough staff already, and reducing them all from 37.5 hours/week to 2.5-10 will mean they have to hire a huge number more and either make the part time or find them other work to do in the mean time.
Also worth mentioning the "solutions" that Apple offered for the iPhone 4 antenna problems.
First was to offer everyone a rubber band to wrap around the phone to prevent shorting the antennas out.
Second was to adjust the signal strength display on screen to give more bars, making people think that their phones had better signal than they actually did.
I like Chrome OS for what it is, basically a platform to run the Chrome browser on. But I couldn't use it for anything really serious, so I see it more like a mobile OS than a desktop/workstation.
Businesses are not going to move to Chrome OS for example.
What alternative is there? Linux doesn't work for most people and it's pretty hard to buy a computer with it pre-installed and supported. Macs are expensive and MacOS has it's own issues.
They put up with this shit because there isn't an alternative.
The Windows 10 start menu is so shit that I usually just search for the thing I want to open, so if I'm not getting Bing pollution in there too that just slows me down.
Also I really don't want everything I search for sent to Bing thanks.
You must be new around here. Slashdot has a long, proud tradition of posting "news" a week or two after it breaks.
The editors seem to hold some stories back for a while, to fill in quiet periods. Also people submit old stories that they haven't seen here just to be part of the debate.
Are not all mistakes "made" by robots actually human mistakes?
Robots can make mistakes due to bad sensors or other faults. The robots used on car production lines tend to follow set movements and actions once the car chassis is known to be in the correct position, but some are able to make adaptations to things like position and orientation of objects, even things like sorting colours.
Slashdot Mirror
Because they are not just providing those links, they are offering them up as suggested answers.
Not just in Safari either, if you ask Siri something it will generally get the suggested web result and read it to you.
Reminds me of Star Trek, particular Next Generation. Obviously the product of the boomer generation, and they had entire planets where people could walk around practically naked (it was TV after all) without worry. Seems like an admirable goal really, a society with that little crime.
The whole Federation was pretty much that way.
Anecdotes aside Sweden consistently comes near the top for things like quality of life, education, healthcare, crime etc.
I'd imagine that if your friend had to live in, say, the UK long term they would realize how good Sweden has it.
It didn't meltdown under one specific test. That doesn't make it meltdown proof.
When I was at school there was plenty of indoctrination. Mainly religious, so I guess things have changed a little.
The same is said of every generation. Were hippies and flower power any less ridiculed?
Young people, by virtue of having been alive for less time, are less experienced. Some would say less cynical and worn down. It will always be that way.
You mean that little 62MW demo plant they built?
It worked okay but after what happened in Japan no one is going back to that design. No, not Fukushima, Monjou. Numerous attempts, numerous failures including some quite serious accidents. Liquid sodium will spontaneously ignite on contact with air, and explode on contact with water so fire control is a bit of a problem, and of course they had just such a fire.
In the end it just proved too problematic and costly to bother with, and decommissioning is going to be expensive too.
As you say, business reasons, no-one is going to throw money at that idea again.
Anyone claiming that something is "meltdown proof" is a charlatan.
Probably not documents marked "top secret, property of Qualcomm", but having had a close relationship for years and probably designed certain aspects of the iPhone around Qualcomm parts when it came to getting Intel to provide a suitable modem some of that built up knowledge leaked out.
"We did it this way with Qualcomm, it worked better..." and the NDA was just violated. Which is why NDAs are generally a bad idea but you can't avoid them when designing stuff like this.
Student does something a bit dumb "with a computer" is a story now? That makes me sad.
To be fair humans have trouble with this too. When we see things at a distance or in poor lighting our brains do a lot of assuming to help decide what it is. Something in an unusual context can often be confusing at first, as the brain goes for the most common and likely options first.
One way to help with this is to train the AI to recognize when it is uncertain. A lot of effort goes in to getting high accuracy levels, but usually very little in to recognizing situations when the answer just isn't clear.
The other thing that really helps humans is time. It's easier to determine a sheep from a rock when you see it move its head, or even just see its coat moving in the breeze. Static photos don't offer that additional information.
There are ways to limit the harm that this sort of work can do. Military orgs around the world have been studying it for decades, to try to prevent their soldiers getting PTSD and becoming ineffective. They have also been studying how to make it worse, as a tactic to use against the enemy.
One example would be limiting exposure. Rather than doing this for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week they might get only be assigned half an hour a day, with the option to continue for up to say two hours if they feel they are okay to do that. The limited exposure and granting of some control over the process really helps psychologically.
Of course the problem for Facebook is that they don't have enough staff already, and reducing them all from 37.5 hours/week to 2.5-10 will mean they have to hire a huge number more and either make the part time or find them other work to do in the mean time.
Also worth mentioning the "solutions" that Apple offered for the iPhone 4 antenna problems.
First was to offer everyone a rubber band to wrap around the phone to prevent shorting the antennas out.
Second was to adjust the signal strength display on screen to give more bars, making people think that their phones had better signal than they actually did.
I like Chrome OS for what it is, basically a platform to run the Chrome browser on. But I couldn't use it for anything really serious, so I see it more like a mobile OS than a desktop/workstation.
Businesses are not going to move to Chrome OS for example.
Work PC, needs Win 10 for testing. At home I use 8.1.
What alternative is there? Linux doesn't work for most people and it's pretty hard to buy a computer with it pre-installed and supported. Macs are expensive and MacOS has it's own issues.
They put up with this shit because there isn't an alternative.
The Windows 10 start menu is so shit that I usually just search for the thing I want to open, so if I'm not getting Bing pollution in there too that just slows me down.
Also I really don't want everything I search for sent to Bing thanks.
I was being sarcastic.
While this is really annoying, fortunately it doesn't synchronize anything by default. It just logs you in but you have to manually enable syncing.
Also, dude, porn is what you have that secondary Firefox installation for.
Fortunately the EU has a solution to that... At least for EU citizens who want to be forgotten by Google.
Why use a court of Hawaii though? That sounds like abuse, selecting a venue presumably because it is favourable to the claimant.
"Cobbler Nevada" is the name of the company making the copyright claim.
I hope their research into quiet supersonic aircraft comes to fruition one day.
You must be new around here. Slashdot has a long, proud tradition of posting "news" a week or two after it breaks.
The editors seem to hold some stories back for a while, to fill in quiet periods. Also people submit old stories that they haven't seen here just to be part of the debate.
Are not all mistakes "made" by robots actually human mistakes?
Robots can make mistakes due to bad sensors or other faults. The robots used on car production lines tend to follow set movements and actions once the car chassis is known to be in the correct position, but some are able to make adaptations to things like position and orientation of objects, even things like sorting colours.