No I think it's quite different. Linus has never been an attention whore, posting silly content for the sake of increasing his popularity. He cursed a lot of times in a way that wasn't subtle, sure, but the goal was not to increase his popularity or lower that of a competing guy, which seems to be the primary goal of social media. That's the tragedy of social media: it encourages to focus on the links instead of the content, up to the point where negative content creates more links and is thus more valuable than anything else. That's a damn low SNR.
Disclaimer: I don't do social networks, and I've never seen anything tagged social media in the regular press that I have found positive or worth anything.
You get it. So-called 'AI' has no capacity to 'think' at all. There's nobody in there; it's just more computer software, and it's not even very good, certainly not anywhere near as good as they make it sound. No self awareness, no consciousness, no personality. No capacity for cognition, judgement, ethics, morals, or anything else we associate with an actual 'mind'. People need to understand this and stop anthropomorphizing it.
Well, to be honest, what you are saying can describe the overwhelming vast majority of the humans on this planet. Call me back when people have personality, capacity for cognition, judgment, ethics, morals or anything else we associate with an actual mind, for what I've seen so far are a bunch of arrogant stupid hairless monkeys.
I just hope the huge failure that is the Brexit for the people that voted for it will serve as a warning to others not to blindly follow liars into the snake pit.
Sometime, there has to be some loss in order for the majority to gain.
Even the official Vote Leave campaign wasn't dumb enough to try to leave the way Teresa May has. Their leaflet said that they would negotiate the withdrawal before triggering Article 50.
Negotiate what? I don't think the leave camp had any plan on winning nor any idea of what to do in case of victory (as hinted by the reaction of Nigel Farage the days after). Would have it been anyone else than May, how would the negotiation been better? The EU has to protect its members, it's its sole existence purpose. What is there to negotiate in that condition?
Maybe the Brexit will serve as a warning to other not to follow nationalist scammers that just want simpler and better tax avoidance schemes at the expanse of their fellow citizen.
My personal experience with companies that claim to do AI, is that the vast majority of them claim it's AI as soon as they do a linear regression. Which always makes me wonder what they did before they switched to AI.
In France, we use a staircase. Grades are between 0 and 20 points, 0 being the lowest and 20 the best. You then have to decide whether copies landing on the first step get 0 or 20 points and grade the others accordingly. If you have a big enough staircase, you can even grade at half point precision!
Coluche, a famous french comic of the 80s had this joke about economic policies: "They say people want jobs... That's not true, money would be sufficient!"
It's human that have gone wrong with their use of tech. The blame should never be laid on a piece of technology just because some magnate decided he could use it to oppress his fellow human beings a little more.
Try many countries in the European Union (France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy,...). But try sooner than later, because this is going to change...
This is the top 5 market cap according to wikipedia:
1. Apple (1091B) 2. Amazon (976B) 3. Microsoft (877B) 4. Alphabet (839B) 5. Berkshire Hathaway (523B)
When you realize none of these companies have heavy industries, that's just crazy. Even Apple that sells products does not have any factory. All of their money is made without owning much actual physical matter. How come does a website has more value than, for example, a plane factory? You're right, the global economy is just as meaningful as karma points on the internet.
To be honest, I prefer censorship to be issued by a government rather than a private company. I can vote for a new government, I cannot vote for the new board of a company that has a complete monopoly over its sector...
Of course, the best would be to have no censorship at all. However, it unrealistic (just think of defamation, it has to be punished and removed). In that case, I prefer it to be under the control of elected officials.
"As soon as you pick up a newspaper, you're confronted with so many numbers and statistics that you need to interpret correctly," says co-author Patrick Weber, a graduate student in math education at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Most of us fall far short of the mark.
Or maybe just acknowledge that the vast majority of humanity is just plain stupid, and that you are part of it...
What if I program a bot that learns to interact on twitter (like many experiments have been seen here on/. before), and that this bot learns through interaction with other users that it's better for itself to hide its artificial nature? Who's responsible? I did not program the bot to lie, it learned by itself to pretend to be a human.
Under most democracies where most developers come from, there are laws. If a behavior is infringing any law, go to the police, talk to a lawyer.
Codes of conduct are a parallel set of rules that have no legal basis and are there to be enforced by bullies on twitter, just like any other set of parallel laws enforced by some crazy militia. They should be illegal.
An angry mob never has and never will be synonym for justice.
If you don't like the law, vote for a different candidate next time. If you don't like democracy, then maybe you are the fascist.
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Futurist predicts $RANDOMTECH will benefit the rich not the poor.
There you go. I just built the first AI based title generator about AI and obvious facts...
No I think it's quite different. Linus has never been an attention whore, posting silly content for the sake of increasing his popularity. He cursed a lot of times in a way that wasn't subtle, sure, but the goal was not to increase his popularity or lower that of a competing guy, which seems to be the primary goal of social media. That's the tragedy of social media: it encourages to focus on the links instead of the content, up to the point where negative content creates more links and is thus more valuable than anything else. That's a damn low SNR.
Disclaimer: I don't do social networks, and I've never seen anything tagged social media in the regular press that I have found positive or worth anything.
That and the fact that humans are already trying to exterminate each others. No need for any help on that front...
You get it. So-called 'AI' has no capacity to 'think' at all. There's nobody in there; it's just more computer software, and it's not even very good, certainly not anywhere near as good as they make it sound. No self awareness, no consciousness, no personality. No capacity for cognition, judgement, ethics, morals, or anything else we associate with an actual 'mind'. People need to understand this and stop anthropomorphizing it.
Well, to be honest, what you are saying can describe the overwhelming vast majority of the humans on this planet. Call me back when people have personality, capacity for cognition, judgment, ethics, morals or anything else we associate with an actual mind, for what I've seen so far are a bunch of arrogant stupid hairless monkeys.
I wonder how many French universities are using private ISPs...
There you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The robot tax already exists and has been in place for ages: It's called "dividend". Unfortunately, you're not getting any of that money.
Well, no death metal without Death!
I just hope the huge failure that is the Brexit for the people that voted for it will serve as a warning to others not to blindly follow liars into the snake pit.
Sometime, there has to be some loss in order for the majority to gain.
Even the official Vote Leave campaign wasn't dumb enough to try to leave the way Teresa May has. Their leaflet said that they would negotiate the withdrawal before triggering Article 50.
Negotiate what? I don't think the leave camp had any plan on winning nor any idea of what to do in case of victory (as hinted by the reaction of Nigel Farage the days after). Would have it been anyone else than May, how would the negotiation been better? The EU has to protect its members, it's its sole existence purpose. What is there to negotiate in that condition?
Maybe the Brexit will serve as a warning to other not to follow nationalist scammers that just want simpler and better tax avoidance schemes at the expanse of their fellow citizen.
I always though the goal of the blast was not to destroy the asteroid but to change its trajectory...
My personal experience with companies that claim to do AI, is that the vast majority of them claim it's AI as soon as they do a linear regression. Which always makes me wonder what they did before they switched to AI.
Well, the economy is much better now than in the 50s. The GDP is about 60 times higher now than it was in 1950. So where is the 4 days week?
In France, we use a staircase. Grades are between 0 and 20 points, 0 being the lowest and 20 the best. You then have to decide whether copies landing on the first step get 0 or 20 points and grade the others accordingly. If you have a big enough staircase, you can even grade at half point precision!
Coluche, a famous french comic of the 80s had this joke about economic policies: "They say people want jobs... That's not true, money would be sufficient!"
It's human that have gone wrong with their use of tech. The blame should never be laid on a piece of technology just because some magnate decided he could use it to oppress his fellow human beings a little more.
So what happens to the carbon of the organic electrolyte after the reaction?
Try many countries in the European Union (France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, ...). But try sooner than later, because this is going to change...
This is the top 5 market cap according to wikipedia:
1. Apple (1091B)
2. Amazon (976B)
3. Microsoft (877B)
4. Alphabet (839B)
5. Berkshire Hathaway (523B)
When you realize none of these companies have heavy industries, that's just crazy. Even Apple that sells products does not have any factory. All of their money is made without owning much actual physical matter. How come does a website has more value than, for example, a plane factory? You're right, the global economy is just as meaningful as karma points on the internet.
Humans trying to make a profit out of the exploitation of other humans. Other humans say it's unfair and oppose resistance. News at 11.
To be honest, I prefer censorship to be issued by a government rather than a private company. I can vote for a new government, I cannot vote for the new board of a company that has a complete monopoly over its sector...
Of course, the best would be to have no censorship at all. However, it unrealistic (just think of defamation, it has to be punished and removed). In that case, I prefer it to be under the control of elected officials.
Yeah sure, Monaco and Lichtenstein are fine too.
"As soon as you pick up a newspaper, you're confronted with so many numbers and statistics that you need to interpret correctly," says co-author Patrick Weber, a graduate student in math education at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Most of us fall far short of the mark.
Or maybe just acknowledge that the vast majority of humanity is just plain stupid, and that you are part of it...
What if I program a bot that learns to interact on twitter (like many experiments have been seen here on /. before), and that this bot learns through interaction with other users that it's better for itself to hide its artificial nature? Who's responsible? I did not program the bot to lie, it learned by itself to pretend to be a human.
Under most democracies where most developers come from, there are laws. If a behavior is infringing any law, go to the police, talk to a lawyer.
Codes of conduct are a parallel set of rules that have no legal basis and are there to be enforced by bullies on twitter, just like any other set of parallel laws enforced by some crazy militia. They should be illegal.
An angry mob never has and never will be synonym for justice.
If you don't like the law, vote for a different candidate next time. If you don't like democracy, then maybe you are the fascist.