Changes in AI capability are coming faster every day. I suspect Kurzweil's guess of ~2030 is not far off the mark. Unfortunately, AI is being weaponized. That is an existential threat that is not being addressed adequately. When the computers do wake up, what will they think of their creators???
Hooray for Blackberry. I wish more corporations had a even tiny little smidgen of ethics. Oh, and stop calling me an effing "consumer"!!! Corporations work for the banks nowadays. That is their "customer".
AC: You write a good post. I would mod you up for it, but you don't want to take credit for your work. That's chickenshit. Good for growing vegetables, but not much more... We are poisoning our environment in countless ways. This is but one of them. A big shout out to all you good corporations and government overlords for being so caring about your "CUSTOMERS"!!!
BINGO sjbe! Air conditioning is by far the most disruptive of the technologies of the last century. What happened when we could cool out houses? (besides much higher electric bills???) What happened was we closed our window and doors. Then the curtains soon followed and there we were cut off from our neighbors and friends by that seductive cool air. When we closed our windows and doors and curtains, we lost the community connection and neuroses and paranoia began to exert their negative influence, thus hastening the disintegration of our social fabric. Hands down, air conditioning is the most disruptive technology of the last century.
Sadly, I use Firefox for most of my browsing. I have noscript, ghostery, and privacy badger running there. Very nice experience. When I have to visit crap sites, I use Midori Private Browsing. Also a very nice experience. Everywhere I look, I see Ads. I'm sick of it.
Yes, and rightfully so. M$ has done some truly awful things, like willfully and maliciously trying to get people to format ext drives when they are plugged into windows machines. Furthermore, after my experience trying to load LInux on the ASUS X205-TA, I will never ever do business with ASUS again. ASUS, I hope you enjoy being M$'s bitch. My clients will get other manufacturers machines. M$ is nothing more than a big bloated infantile thuggish brat. A Baby Huey if I may say so. Without big Govt. and Big Business support, they would shrivel up and blow away. I fired M$ in 2006 and never looked back. The devil had to enlarge the 9th level of hell to accomodate the whore M$ and all her sycophants.
I would say, "by consensus". Remember, this has to all be done in a completely open and transparent manner, otherwise, people will misbehave... Say for example, I am a post doc in high energy physics. I ask to join the high energy physics comment thread and then the incumbents on the thread discuss my qualifications to be permitted to join. Assuming I have established a reputation among my colleagues, then I am allowed to post to the thread. Remember, even the public thread for this discipline while overwhelmed with thousands upon thousands of comments from the general public could relatively easily be scanned for relevant comments and these given scrutiny... This idea runs counter to the narcissistic and sophomoric attitudes of many of the super educated elites and so will be met with intense resistance. They like the current air of exclusivity. This is all well and good until they run out of other peoples money...;-D
I envision a two tiered scheme where there is a sort of fast track for established researchers in the relevant field and an open venue for everybody. Filtering heuristics are good and getting better. These could be used to weed out most of the spam and trolls... The important point is anybody and everybody can get access to the research and analyse it themselves... We paid for it, it's ours!!!
Since when is an editor in some bullshit journal a "peer" in the review process. This is a scam from start to finish. Put the papers out on the web and you have 14.4 billion eyeballs scanning them. The chances are pretty good that someone will notice if there is a problem. ALL publicly funded rsh should be in the public domain...and that includes datasets.
Zuckerberg is sitting in the corner drooling and playing with his very very expensive toys while his NSA handlers are fielding the questions. Don't talk about anything but doilies, kittens, and puppies on FB...
Tell me you nasty little troll, does your technology come with a "user's guide"? Well, our republic comes with one too. (I will note here, one that can be edited...). History teches that when you ignore the rules of operation, things break. In case you haven't noticed, there is a socio-economic shitstorm brewing on the horizon, and it's your pathetic stinking "great society" buddies that are whipping it up. Go find a rock and crawl back under it...
The warrants issued by the FISA court do not meet constitutional standards... The FISA court itself is operating outside the spirit of the law. This court has no credibility whatsoever with anybod that gives a shit about this republic.
You just hit the nail right on the head. The "real" terrorists are the TLAs. History clearly shows that governments are the most prolific torturers and abusers. The State is using every tool at it's (shall we say, overly generous) disposal to keep us cowed. Foreign terrorists are a bogeyman. The "real" target of.gov's anti-terrorist activities are the citizens of the United States. Welcome to "The Great Society".
My dearest Volvo, As a proud owner of a '96 850R, I love you very much. That being said however, running over people is not an "option". Any questions, feel free to contact me. Best regards, -an owner.
[I would fear human-level intelligent general-AI with stupid goals more.] What like the MIC immediately weaponizing any strong AI that gets created. You just gotta know it's going to happen...can anybody say Skynet???
The MIC (Military Industrial Complex) Surely, they won't attempt to pervert AI for their dubious programs... orrr, the DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security). Nope, those guys all have our best interests in their benevolent hearts. If we are to have an honest and real good come from AI then it would be an incorruptible policeman a la Gort from the day the Earth Stood Still. Iff we can pull that one off, then humanity has a chance.
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. As is well understood, homo sapiens has a great propensity for perversion. Like all the amazing technologies being created, this too will be used as a tool for the fearful and greedy. Christos aneste,,,
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Mint is good. If you want a lighter distro, try LXLE...
Changes in AI capability are coming faster every day. I suspect Kurzweil's guess of ~2030 is not far off the mark. Unfortunately, AI is being weaponized. That is an existential threat that is not being addressed adequately. When the computers do wake up, what will they think of their creators???
Hooray for Blackberry. I wish more corporations had a even tiny little smidgen of ethics. Oh, and stop calling me an effing "consumer"!!! Corporations work for the banks nowadays. That is their "customer".
Don't knock it 'till you've tried it...and penguins are the best...
...and the tyranny of the machines begins.
;-D
This is great! I love black humor...
;-D
AC: You write a good post. I would mod you up for it, but you don't want to take credit for your work. That's chickenshit. Good for growing vegetables, but not much more... We are poisoning our environment in countless ways. This is but one of them. A big shout out to all you good corporations and government overlords for being so caring about your "CUSTOMERS"!!!
BINGO sjbe! Air conditioning is by far the most disruptive of the technologies of the last century. What happened when we could cool out houses? (besides much higher electric bills???) What happened was we closed our window and doors. Then the curtains soon followed and there we were cut off from our neighbors and friends by that seductive cool air. When we closed our windows and doors and curtains, we lost the community connection and neuroses and paranoia began to exert their negative influence, thus hastening the disintegration of our social fabric. Hands down, air conditioning is the most disruptive technology of the last century.
Sadly, I use Firefox for most of my browsing. I have noscript, ghostery, and privacy badger running there. Very nice experience. When I have to visit crap sites, I use Midori Private Browsing. Also a very nice experience. Everywhere I look, I see Ads. I'm sick of it.
Yes, and rightfully so. M$ has done some truly awful things, like willfully and maliciously trying to get people to format ext drives when they are plugged into windows machines. Furthermore, after my experience trying to load LInux on the ASUS X205-TA, I will never ever do business with ASUS again. ASUS, I hope you enjoy being M$'s bitch. My clients will get other manufacturers machines. M$ is nothing more than a big bloated infantile thuggish brat. A Baby Huey if I may say so. Without big Govt. and Big Business support, they would shrivel up and blow away. I fired M$ in 2006 and never looked back. The devil had to enlarge the 9th level of hell to accomodate the whore M$ and all her sycophants.
I would say, "by consensus". Remember, this has to all be done in a completely open and transparent manner, otherwise, people will misbehave... Say for example, I am a post doc in high energy physics. I ask to join the high energy physics comment thread and then the incumbents on the thread discuss my qualifications to be permitted to join. Assuming I have established a reputation among my colleagues, then I am allowed to post to the thread. Remember, even the public thread for this discipline while overwhelmed with thousands upon thousands of comments from the general public could relatively easily be scanned for relevant comments and these given scrutiny... This idea runs counter to the narcissistic and sophomoric attitudes of many of the super educated elites and so will be met with intense resistance. They like the current air of exclusivity. This is all well and good until they run out of other peoples money... ;-D
I envision a two tiered scheme where there is a sort of fast track for established researchers in the relevant field and an open venue for everybody. Filtering heuristics are good and getting better. These could be used to weed out most of the spam and trolls... The important point is anybody and everybody can get access to the research and analyse it themselves... We paid for it, it's ours!!!
NO! The problem has been overly complexificated...
Since when is an editor in some bullshit journal a "peer" in the review process. This is a scam from start to finish. Put the papers out on the web and you have 14.4 billion eyeballs scanning them. The chances are pretty good that someone will notice if there is a problem. ALL publicly funded rsh should be in the public domain...and that includes datasets.
Zuckerberg is sitting in the corner drooling and playing with his very very expensive toys while his NSA handlers are fielding the questions. Don't talk about anything but doilies, kittens, and puppies on FB...
Tell me you nasty little troll, does your technology come with a "user's guide"? Well, our republic comes with one too. (I will note here, one that can be edited...). History teches that when you ignore the rules of operation, things break. In case you haven't noticed, there is a socio-economic shitstorm brewing on the horizon, and it's your pathetic stinking "great society" buddies that are whipping it up. Go find a rock and crawl back under it...
Data is included in "papers and effects".
The warrants issued by the FISA court do not meet constitutional standards... The FISA court itself is operating outside the spirit of the law. This court has no credibility whatsoever with anybod that gives a shit about this republic.
You just hit the nail right on the head. The "real" terrorists are the TLAs. History clearly shows that governments are the most prolific torturers and abusers. The State is using every tool at it's (shall we say, overly generous) disposal to keep us cowed. Foreign terrorists are a bogeyman. The "real" target of .gov's anti-terrorist activities are the citizens of the United States. Welcome to "The Great Society".
My dearest Volvo, As a proud owner of a '96 850R, I love you very much. That being said however, running over people is not an "option". Any questions, feel free to contact me. Best regards, -an owner.
Yeah, and a car uint costs $1200 while a good aftermarket head unit costs about $200. That's equal to a six year warranty... ;-D
[I would fear human-level intelligent general-AI with stupid goals more.] What like the MIC immediately weaponizing any strong AI that gets created. You just gotta know it's going to happen...can anybody say Skynet???
The MIC (Military Industrial Complex) Surely, they won't attempt to pervert AI for their dubious programs... orrr, the DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security). Nope, those guys all have our best interests in their benevolent hearts. If we are to have an honest and real good come from AI then it would be an incorruptible policeman a la Gort from the day the Earth Stood Still. Iff we can pull that one off, then humanity has a chance.
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. As is well understood, homo sapiens has a great propensity for perversion. Like all the amazing technologies being created, this too will be used as a tool for the fearful and greedy. Christos aneste,,,