Ah, but what you fail to take into account is that they don't care if the service is fair. They only care about whether you stay signed up or not.
If they really wanted to be fair they would "credit" you for fast turnover of popular movies. You could easily imagine a "karma" system for netflix, where point are deducted for the following:
renting a movie (more for a popular movie)
renting more than 5 movies in a month
keeping a popular movie more than a week
points could be gained by:
signing up - you start with some number of points
fast return of a popular movie
paying your bill each month (higher cost service plans could give more points)
ranking movies on their system
Once again though they don't care about fairness, they just want to keep you on the service for the least possible cost to them.
You are kind of missing the point. The system doesn't make it so you can't rent as many movies, it just makes it less likely that you are able to rent a popular movie. So Joe could still watch 10 movies, just not 10 that are in high demand. So he might get UHF or Kentucky Fried Movie while having to wait for his beloved About a Boy.
Don't forget the primer. It should be covered in primer, an indication that the driver cares enough about his car to repair the rust, but not enough to actually make it look nice.
If you managed to stay until the end of the credits for Spiderman you would have heard the corny Spiderman song from the 70's (60's?) cartoon, which sounded so awful that it was a real shock to my system. When I was a kid that song was cool, mostly due to its association with Spiderman I guess. The theater I saw it in stopped the projector halfway through the song of course.
They killed the product about 2 years ago. It was a mess in many ways. I am probably one of the few people on earth that actually programmed anything in it. I found it painful. I prefer JavaCard and currently use the JCOP card.
Rather than throw out "people think" completely, why not start with: I know that I think, how do I know that you do, other than the fact that we are both human?
I don't mean this as the basis for a formal system, but more as a practical matter. How do you convince yourself that something else posesses intelligence? By interacting with it and comparing it with other things (including yourself) that you assume to be intelligent. The Turing Test provides a method of interacting with a potential intelligence that attempts to remove the superficial elements of the stigma of being non-human.
I think that many people who object to the Turing paper take the restrictions of the test too literally. It seems that if there were some chatbot that could fool you continously for say, a period of years, that you would have to attribute intelligence to it. The other option is that you are really stupid and have bad conversation skills.
The test is obviously a measure of some type of intelligence. That said, a machine capable of passing it shouldn't be the goal of AI researchers. What I want at the moment is a machine that will debug my code for me...
While we're on the subject, the article didn't really describe the Chinese Room (I have always heard of it as the Chinese Box) in much detail. After devoting quite a bit of attention to a bunch of other side issues they could have at least described it in layman's terms. They didn't even mention the fact that the person in the box doesn't speak Chinese.
Also missing is the neuron replacement example. I have always found that to be one of the most interesting AI/Turing test related discussions.
Um, he said it was 30 years old, not 9 or 10. He did say that it was a 9 unit printer, I don't know if that means it has 9 print heads all working on a single sheet or it has basically 9 different printers in it. Anyhow that makes your numbers come out to either 20 ppm or a little over 2 ppm depending on what he means. Don't doubt the durability of old impact based printers.
The real trouble is that those who are more intelligent are likely to underestimate their intelligence while those who are not as intelligent are more likely to overestimate their intelligence. There was a big study about this a few years ago. I think it revealed a universal truth: The incompetent are unaware of their own ineptitude. Also, the highly competent are aware of the ture complexity of a situation in the area of their expertise and are more likely to approach it with caution. This exaplains a lot of things.
Yeah, well I am really good at The Last Starfighter so I expect the aliens to come and recruit me any day now. I just hope the clone that replaces me is nice to everyone while I'm gone.
And don't forget that the subject of the article was antibodies, not antibiotics -- completely different things.
Yeah, I know, just couldn't help but respond to your post which was on this topic.
Could be. I haven't heard of any that have done this, though. It would seem like there should be some evidence.
Neither have I. I would love to see some evidence one way or the other. I was just speculating on possible ways in which our use of antibiotics might leave us in a worse position than the "natural way". I certainly don't think that we are currently in a worse position, but I do think we could be more careful.
The "so what" is that we use antibiotics way too much. Antibiotic soap for instance. The real problem comes from agriculture in which chickens and cows are given antibiotics indiscriminately because it is cheaper to cover your bases. It is a classic tragedy of the commons.
When you compare the worst case with the best case there is a big difference. In the best case anti-biotics are used appropriately and judiciously and resistant bacteria take a lot longer to develop.
It also might be worth considering whether these new "super-bacteria" that are resistant to everything leave us in a worse situation than we had prior to antibiotics. For example, they might be more contagious than the bacteria that would have otherwise evolved. I am not sure if there is any basis for my arguement or not, but it seems that a bacteria that is being attacked on mutiple fronts would be pressured into becoming more contagious than one that is not.
We did the same thing with a wheeled chair and a fire extinguisher. They even had races across the gym. Didn't require much in the way of funding, demonstrated the 3rd law nicely.
When I was in training to be a dorm based computer consultant one of the exercises was to fix a computer that the instructor had purposely messed up in some way. We were not told in advance what the problem would be. I entered the clusted went to my assigned computer. It was shutdown so I pressed the power button on the keyboard (it was a Mac) and it booted up fine. I couldn't figure out what the problem was with it. Other people had computers that wouldn't even boot in some way. I quickly became bored and shut it back down and just sat there. The instructor came over and asked why I couldn't get the computer going. I said, "I just shut it down." He said, "Did you also unplug it?" "Nope." "Well why is it still unplugged?" It turns out that he had unplugged it as the "problem" for me to solve. I protested that I had just booted it up fine but when I tried to demonstrate that it worked nothing happened. I then plugged in the dangling plug (there was a real mess of wires down there) and was able to boot it again. The instructor never believed me that it had booted originally since he had unplugged it himself earlier. He thought that he had stumped me with the simplest problem possible.
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The most annoying error in my opinion, is people who claim to shop at Nordstroms rather than at Nordstrom.
Um, while Thinkpads continue to be popular, I don't think that IBM desktops are exactly hot sellers. I could be wrong. If memory serves you can only buy them direct from IBM since trying to sell them at CompUSA next to the gray boxes was a money losing effort. You can bet that IBM wishes they had done the whole PC thing differently. Especially the Charlie Chaplin part...
Opinions expressed here are my own and not those of my three lettered employer.
Here is a non-invisible link. Basically imagine if you had a camera on your back and wore a movie screen on your front. Then you set up a projector several feet away to shine the scene from the camera on your screen. This is a 5th grade science project invisible cloak. Not sure why it made the news.
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If they really wanted to be fair they would "credit" you for fast turnover of popular movies. You could easily imagine a "karma" system for netflix, where point are deducted for the following:
- renting a movie (more for a popular movie)
- renting more than 5 movies in a month
- keeping a popular movie more than a week
points could be gained by:- signing up - you start with some number of points
- fast return of a popular movie
- paying your bill each month (higher cost service plans could give more points)
- ranking movies on their system
Once again though they don't care about fairness, they just want to keep you on the service for the least possible cost to them.You are kind of missing the point. The system doesn't make it so you can't rent as many movies, it just makes it less likely that you are able to rent a popular movie. So Joe could still watch 10 movies, just not 10 that are in high demand. So he might get UHF or Kentucky Fried Movie while having to wait for his beloved About a Boy.
Don't forget the primer. It should be covered in primer, an indication that the driver cares enough about his car to repair the rust, but not enough to actually make it look nice.
If you managed to stay until the end of the credits for Spiderman you would have heard the corny Spiderman song from the 70's (60's?) cartoon, which sounded so awful that it was a real shock to my system. When I was a kid that song was cool, mostly due to its association with Spiderman I guess. The theater I saw it in stopped the projector halfway through the song of course.
They killed the product about 2 years ago. It was a mess in many ways. I am probably one of the few people on earth that actually programmed anything in it. I found it painful. I prefer JavaCard and currently use the JCOP card.
exactly!
Note to self: When mocking the grammar errors of others, always hit the Preview button.
Yes we can be stupid. In fact sometime we use the word "shouldn't" when we mean exactly the opposite.
I don't mean this as the basis for a formal system, but more as a practical matter. How do you convince yourself that something else posesses intelligence? By interacting with it and comparing it with other things (including yourself) that you assume to be intelligent. The Turing Test provides a method of interacting with a potential intelligence that attempts to remove the superficial elements of the stigma of being non-human.
The test is obviously a measure of some type of intelligence. That said, a machine capable of passing it shouldn't be the goal of AI researchers. What I want at the moment is a machine that will debug my code for me...
While we're on the subject, the article didn't really describe the Chinese Room (I have always heard of it as the Chinese Box) in much detail. After devoting quite a bit of attention to a bunch of other side issues they could have at least described it in layman's terms. They didn't even mention the fact that the person in the box doesn't speak Chinese.
Also missing is the neuron replacement example. I have always found that to be one of the most interesting AI/Turing test related discussions.
Actually the problem here in MA is $25 billion underground freeways.
The IBM PDA reference design using a PowerPC chip also contained an FPGA. I haven't seen any reports on what it would be used for.
You are right, thank you AC.
Um, he said it was 30 years old, not 9 or 10. He did say that it was a 9 unit printer, I don't know if that means it has 9 print heads all working on a single sheet or it has basically 9 different printers in it. Anyhow that makes your numbers come out to either 20 ppm or a little over 2 ppm depending on what he means. Don't doubt the durability of old impact based printers.
The real trouble is that those who are more intelligent are likely to underestimate their intelligence while those who are not as intelligent are more likely to overestimate their intelligence. There was a big study about this a few years ago. I think it revealed a universal truth: The incompetent are unaware of their own ineptitude. Also, the highly competent are aware of the ture complexity of a situation in the area of their expertise and are more likely to approach it with caution. This exaplains a lot of things.
Yeah, well I am really good at The Last Starfighter so I expect the aliens to come and recruit me any day now. I just hope the clone that replaces me is nice to everyone while I'm gone.
Yeah, I know, just couldn't help but respond to your post which was on this topic.
Could be. I haven't heard of any that have done this, though. It would seem like there should be some evidence.
Neither have I. I would love to see some evidence one way or the other. I was just speculating on possible ways in which our use of antibiotics might leave us in a worse position than the "natural way". I certainly don't think that we are currently in a worse position, but I do think we could be more careful.
When you compare the worst case with the best case there is a big difference. In the best case anti-biotics are used appropriately and judiciously and resistant bacteria take a lot longer to develop.
It also might be worth considering whether these new "super-bacteria" that are resistant to everything leave us in a worse situation than we had prior to antibiotics. For example, they might be more contagious than the bacteria that would have otherwise evolved. I am not sure if there is any basis for my arguement or not, but it seems that a bacteria that is being attacked on mutiple fronts would be pressured into becoming more contagious than one that is not.
We did the same thing with a wheeled chair and a fire extinguisher. They even had races across the gym. Didn't require much in the way of funding, demonstrated the 3rd law nicely.
It is only a bit evil. Sorry.
When I was in training to be a dorm based computer consultant one of the exercises was to fix a computer that the instructor had purposely messed up in some way. We were not told in advance what the problem would be. I entered the clusted went to my assigned computer. It was shutdown so I pressed the power button on the keyboard (it was a Mac) and it booted up fine. I couldn't figure out what the problem was with it. Other people had computers that wouldn't even boot in some way. I quickly became bored and shut it back down and just sat there. The instructor came over and asked why I couldn't get the computer going. I said, "I just shut it down." He said, "Did you also unplug it?" "Nope." "Well why is it still unplugged?" It turns out that he had unplugged it as the "problem" for me to solve. I protested that I had just booted it up fine but when I tried to demonstrate that it worked nothing happened. I then plugged in the dangling plug (there was a real mess of wires down there) and was able to boot it again. The instructor never believed me that it had booted originally since he had unplugged it himself earlier. He thought that he had stumped me with the simplest problem possible.
The most annoying error in my opinion, is people who claim to shop at Nordstroms rather than at Nordstrom.
Opinions expressed here are my own and not those of my three lettered employer.
yet so little planning seems to have gone into it.... Come on, for your favorite holiday can't you do better?
Here is a non-invisible link. Basically imagine if you had a camera on your back and wore a movie screen on your front. Then you set up a projector several feet away to shine the scene from the camera on your screen. This is a 5th grade science project invisible cloak. Not sure why it made the news.