I'm tired of Liberals and Conservatives
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I think people need to learn to make the kind of statements like those made in this article without using the term liberal or conservative.
As an outsider (not an American) I see and fail to understand many posts that say, "I agree completely with the ideas and that something has gone wrong, but what he says about [insert my affiliation here] is untrue and unfair. [insert opposing affiliation here] is worse for the following three reasons. Therefore this is a poorly written article."
The next post then comes to the defense of the offended party, and the argument continues, the important ideas and the call for action forgotten.
Meanwhile, [Radiohead] frontman Thom Yorke has told Xfm that the newly released Hail to the Thief could be Radiohead's last album, citing the difficulties and pressure surrounding making a cohesive statement: "... I've had enough of this whole album thing and that sort of level of pressure and scrutiny and the way that it works in the music business."
How is what you describe an advance in AI? It's just what you said, a list of answers to frequent questions indexed by keyword (ie: a well-designed FAQ or index) trussed up to look like an intelligence. If we told the "community" about it, all we would be telling them is a good way to win this competition. It's nothing that anyone couldn't already add to a system that needs it.
There are better things for AI researchers, especially those dealing with language and dialog, to spend their time on. Check out TRECK, where answers to questions are derived from text automatically, enhancing search engines to answer questions directly, for something worth doing.
To say AI has made no advances because we can't fool people into thinking they're talking to someone is to do three things:
Downplay the wealth of knowledge needed for intelligent conversation
Downplay the contributions of the AI community to the computing science wordl
Oversell the importance of having a computer that can talk to you about stuff - call a friend!
Look for techniques and tasks that play to a computer's strengths (speed, single-mindedness, perfect memory) and you'll see accomplishments in AI. Look to their weaknesses and you'll get the impression that you seem to have gotten.
The pre-conception that men do better in mathematics is the result of a faulty study done in the 70s. Even though it was debunked a few years later, people still cite it, the damage it did to people's perceptions as to what women can and cannot do was almost irreversible.
When I was writing a project on the subject of women in computing science a few years ago, I cited a paper that explained the effects of the 1970's research (wish I had that reference handy now). My partner on the same project cited the 1970s paper in his half of the project without ever knowing it was wrong.
I'm intrigued by your statement. The article clearly lists the criteria that causes the US to do poorly. Countries 1 through 16 are ranked higher because they are not doing these things, and presumably because they are also doing everything that the US is doing right.
Is there some other factor you believe the poll missed, that would have placed the US closer to the top? If not, what's your point?
Could the reason the characters appear two dimensional from the web-page be because you're reading three-line descriptions of them on a web-page instead of watching them on the show?
I stumbled upon this in an interview with Piers Anothony by Moira Allen located here. I figured I'd post it so we won't waste a question:
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To what do you attribute your gift of puns? (What are your favorite puns from the Xanth series?)
I don't think I have an unusual gift for puns; I can fail to get them in real life. But my readers send them in by the hundreds, so I have a huge range to draw on. My favorite is not exactly a pun, it's a maxim: "Never let a man get the upper hand; there's no telling where he might put it."
HG Well predicted the atomic bomb in "The World Set Free", another fellow named Wigner read the story, and later heard that a chain reaction was possible. He put two and two together, decided he should warn someone and passed the message on to Einstein who in turn passed the message on to President Roosevelt.
Google cached page. I'm sure you can find another reference to support this if you look around.
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I think people need to learn to make the kind of statements like those made in this article without using the term liberal or conservative.
As an outsider (not an American) I see and fail to understand many posts that say, "I agree completely with the ideas and that something has gone wrong, but what he says about [insert my affiliation here] is untrue and unfair. [insert opposing affiliation here] is worse for the following three reasons. Therefore this is a poorly written article."
The next post then comes to the defense of the offended party, and the argument continues, the important ideas and the call for action forgotten.
Radiohead Tells Press That Hail May Be Their Last Album
There are better things for AI researchers, especially those dealing with language and dialog, to spend their time on. Check out TRECK, where answers to questions are derived from text automatically, enhancing search engines to answer questions directly, for something worth doing.
To say AI has made no advances because we can't fool people into thinking they're talking to someone is to do three things:
Look for techniques and tasks that play to a computer's strengths (speed, single-mindedness, perfect memory) and you'll see accomplishments in AI. Look to their weaknesses and you'll get the impression that you seem to have gotten.
The pre-conception that men do better in mathematics is the result of a faulty study done in the 70s. Even though it was debunked a few years later, people still cite it, the damage it did to people's perceptions as to what women can and cannot do was almost irreversible.
When I was writing a project on the subject of women in computing science a few years ago, I cited a paper that explained the effects of the 1970's research (wish I had that reference handy now). My partner on the same project cited the 1970s paper in his half of the project without ever knowing it was wrong.
I'm intrigued by your statement. The article clearly lists the criteria that causes the US to do poorly. Countries 1 through 16 are ranked higher because they are not doing these things, and presumably because they are also doing everything that the US is doing right.
Is there some other factor you believe the poll missed, that would have placed the US closer to the top? If not, what's your point?
Could the reason the characters appear two dimensional from the web-page be because you're reading three-line descriptions of them on a web-page instead of watching them on the show?
Just a thought.
I stumbled upon this in an interview with Piers Anothony by Moira Allen located here. I figured I'd post it so we won't waste a question:
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To what do you attribute your gift of puns? (What are your favorite puns from the Xanth series?)
I don't think I have an unusual gift for puns; I can fail to get them in real life. But my readers send them in by the hundreds, so I have a huge range to draw on. My favorite is not exactly a pun, it's a maxim: "Never let a man get the upper hand; there's no telling where he might put it."
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That should be Wells, with an S. I don't know how I missed that twice.
HG Well predicted the atomic bomb in "The World Set Free", another fellow named Wigner read the story, and later heard that a chain reaction was possible. He put two and two together, decided he should warn someone and passed the message on to Einstein who in turn passed the message on to President Roosevelt. Google cached page. I'm sure you can find another reference to support this if you look around.