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  1. Re:Echo chamber on Alphabet's AI-Powered Chrome Extension Hides Toxic Comments (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Just how advanced do you think this algo is? You actually believe that it can understand an "idea"? Unless some major advancements in NLU happened while I was asleep last night, the proposed toxicity detector is going to be a glamourized swear word detector. There is no way it is capable of what you're accusing it of.

  2. Re:I have mixed feelings on this. on Alphabet's AI-Powered Chrome Extension Hides Toxic Comments (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly this! The toxicity detector doesn't know whether you're posing difficult questions and challenging prior conceptions. And it sure as shit doesn't know how people are going to feel about a comment. It's detecting the types of language used in toxic comments. That's it. Keep the naughty words to a minimum and you'll be golden.

  3. Everybody keeps throwing around all of these ways that China could abuse this system, like discrediting based on social media post or publishing dissenting material. Thing is, they haven't implemented anything like that. So far the only thing that dings your score is criminal charges, traffic violations, and defaulting on loans. So it's like a cross between a criminal record and a credit score. Not very dystopian.

    The big problem I'm seeing here is that it digs people into a hole. If a person is defaulting on loans too much, they end up in a situation where paying off future loans becomes more difficult. That seems counter productive.

  4. Re:Place it where they need it on Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine the house he could build in the rust-belt though? The price of an apartment in Manhattan will get you an entire city block in The D.

  5. Re:You can pry my old heart from my cold dead hand on Why Your New Heart Could Be Made in Space One Day (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    *chest

  6. Re:New Term for Actual Artificial Intelligence on AI-Equipped Cameras Will Help Spot Wildlife Poachers Before They Can Kill (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody in the field would just use a more specific term. In this case, "Computer Vision". I think the only field that would probably like the term AI back would be people making game-playing agents.

  7. Re:More than telomeres? on A Stealthy Harvard Startup Wants To Reverse Aging in Dogs, and Humans Could Be Next (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They are vague on the details, but it sounds like they are starting with fixing a congenital heart defect in certain types of badly inbred dogs. They even mention that it's not really age reversal but "pet owners won’t worry about semantics". As far as I can tell, they are just taking the anti-aging angle to drive the hype train.

  8. Re:People are jumping to other Crypto on Bitcoin Watchers Running Out of Explanations Blame Slump on Moon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A correction would have them all go down to zero.

  9. Re: Wholeheartedly agree on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Plus at Starbucks you have to talk to a human. Unpleasant start to a day.

  10. All those things that you mentioned would indeed fuck your life. But abstaining from Starbucks wouldn't, so I guess that's different huh?

  11. It gets better. I just punched this into a compounding interest calculator: $3 a day for 40 years at a modest 6% outputs $172,526.71. Enough to have a major impact on one's lifestyle in during retirement.

  12. Re:Because Our Dormitories Are Not Ready on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    And we'll be able to go outdoors into the courtyard every other Sunday.

    That's not mandatory is it?

  13. Re:Yeah, totally real war! on Thousands of Videogame-Playing Soldiers Could Shape the Future of War (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Spec Ops: The Line
    It has a scene where you accidentally bomb a bunch of civilians, and the go through a nice walk through their neighbourhood.

  14. Re:Home? on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people do this, but there are traditions involved beyond just putting a box on a shelf. It takes some space to build a little shrine, and there are incense involved. HK apartments can be really small.

  15. Re:More gentrification? on Toronto To Be Home To Google Parent's Biggest Smart City Project Yet (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh no, they're gentrifying the landfill depot?! Where will the rats live?

  16. Re:If it aint' broke on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if it works, you lose control over systems that you don't understand. And that gets expensive.
    Ever worked for a bank? Prime example of this. Each of the major banks has one guy that understands the bottom layers of their stacks. He's in his 60s. He hasn't retired because the bank keeps driving dump trucks full of money up to his house. He knows more about banking than the CEO. He knows how to code on punch cards. He's been known to bite. You know a version of this guy, eh?
    The current process when you need a change made is to make a request and wait 6 to 8 months and hopefully he gets back to you.
    When that guy retires... I dunno man.

  17. Re:If a robot can do it.... on We're Too Wise For Robots To Take Our Jobs, Alibaba's Jack Ma Says (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Computers will not be capable of abstract thought

    If a human can do it, a machine can do it.
    Unless you think that abstract thought comes from your "soul" or some other form of mystical garbage.

  18. the majority of people are totally unfit to code

    Ya, all the people that didn't start learning to code when they were young and malleable.

  19. Re:We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    No Alexa, that guy!

  20. Re:Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit on Apple Recommends Children Under 13, Twins and Siblings Do Not Use Face ID On iPhone X (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The 1/50k number and 1/100k numbers are clearly just made up. The Touch ID figure is a pretty blatant lie, fingerprints aren't even that unique.
    And this article is proof that the 1/100k is also bullshit. Siblings for fucks sake!
    This reminds me so much of the Nuance voice auth system that was supposedly 1/10k false positive rate, but anybody could log on as anybody else by doing a half-assed impression of their voice.

  21. Re: Globalization = Pure Capitalisim = Locustlike on IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US (newsindiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He meant to say it's like reverse-locusts that show up and barf delicious grain all over farmers fields.

  22. It does seem like whatever device is being used here went wrong in some way. Even if it's some kind of sonic weapon and brain damage was the intended effect, you would think it wouldn't be designed to make a noise.

  23. Re:Start Over Doing What? on Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says We Need To Start Over (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    He's not talking about replacing deep learning, just back-prop. That's the method used for training a network. Hinton thinks that an AI would need to learn without thousands of labeled examples, and back-prop isn't up to the task.
    I hope he's wrong, because replacing back-prop would be a real son of a bitch.

  24. I really want to know where Apple is getting these false positive rates from. I've read reports from third-parties claiming that TouchID has a false positive rate as high as 1/200. Fingerprints, man. They aren't THAT unique.
    And 1/1000000? First off, thats a suspiciously round number. Also, without a huge specificity for sensitivity trade-off, this just sounds way too good to be true. Kudos to Apple if I'm wrong.

  25. If you're into this kind of thing, check out the Racetams family, or Bromantane. They're the current darlings of the noots community. Legal too (for the time being.)