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Actually, AI people debate about whether humans are truly intelligent -- it's a running joke that every time people figure out a solution that is generally agreed to require intelligence, it turns out it doesn't.
Some more famous cases are chess, pattern recognition, voice recognition, voice synthesis, character recognition, and walking and hopping.
This is not just bad guessing -- when people say, well, a humam is intelligemt because they have a "deep understanding" of X, nobody really knows if that statement has any real meaning -- humans may just be a big bag of specialized but prosaic routines.
Ironically, one of the big AI-is-coming-and-then-some people, Mr. Omega Point himself, Vernor Vinge, in his sci-fi novel Rainbows End, has tech where they actually digitize books by throwing them into a shredder which blows the confetti up into the air and high-speed, high resolution cameras feed it into computers which un-jigsaw it.
This irritates people because the book is destroyed in the process, but it is all done throuh prosaic programming, not AI.
"Hands on" means you got to play around with it for a little bit. This was not that in the slightest. Hence a "hands on" demo is fraudulent, at least as described after the fact once it became apparent that was not the case.
That's why all these big companies have suites of thousands of patents -- so they can force a capitulation to mutual sharing agreements. The judge is just trying to hurry this process.
What should a future programmer do over the summer before college?
Take a manual labor job, lose weight and get in shape. You'll be surprised how much easier it is to get pussy. You may not even have to work at it. And we didn't have cougar match up sites on top of it.
No but if you then fraudulently misused the info, aye, there's he rub.
Foor most people, you wouldn't need encryption or security. You wouldn't need locks on doors or keys for cars. It's because there are lousy jackasses out there that these things are needed.
You are partly correct but not for he reason you think.
Good, kind-hearted government isn't releasing this information to benefit the consumer by embarrassing companies (beliefs of low-level government functionaries, AKA "useful idiots", aside).
It was done in an election year to panic banks by stirring up outrage in the hoi polloi such that banks would be afraid Congress would be driven to act.
This will have the intended effect (by the "useful idiots'" bosses) that the bosses will get lots of donations.
Your error, as many make, is in the assumption this feedback loop between government and business is driven by business thwarting Good Stewardship for cackling, nefarious reasons rather than that politicians seek this power so they can get in the way and thus get paid to get back out of the way.
This has much better predictive and explanatory power than the "evil business thwarts good politicians" theory -- more evidence? Sure. Look at most other countries around he world where he desired jobs [i]are government jobs[/i] and this is raised to a hih art form.
In the 70s, I had a tiny, portable, wireless music streaming device.
Just sayin'. It had many pre-categorized music data type channels, or "stations".
In fact, the DVD, the Blue Ray, there wasn't none of that crap back in 1970. We didn't know about a World Wide Web -- was a whole different game being played back when I was a kid.
Wanna get down in a cool way? Picture yourself on a beautiful day -- big bell bottoms and groovy long hair, just walkin in style -- with a CD player? No! You would listen to the music on the AM radio!
I've been through a number of cycles of The One True Greatest Solution For All Time a whole bunch of times now.
As The Comedian says, "It's a joke. It's all a joke."
Great, massive, scalable frameworks that we are to write once in, and that's it, it's nothing but code reuse and minor tweaks for as far as the eye can see...until three or four (or two) years goes by and it's all changed and you have to re-write everything all over again...once and for all.
Until the next few years goes by.
Entire graphical e-z layouts with auto code generation. General purpose driver systems. Document data sharing models. Database storage systems with query languages.
It's a joke. It's all a joke. Mother, don't you dare fuckin' forgive them.
Also to be fair, a Google tablet wih Android sounds cool. A Microsoft tablet wih a Windows version smacks of me-too-ism.
Not counting the awsomely sweet cachet of Microsoft, which could save the day when compared to Google Android or Apple iPad, of course. Let's not forget that.
A few years ago my daughter got into Purdue Engineering. We went down for the "women in engineering" orientation, which met in a big auditorium. Then they split the girls up by group and sent each off to their field-specific info.
"And now all the biomedical engineers stand up..." and over half stood up, at least 70.
"Moles" assumes they don't have permission. Years ago I hypothesized one of the reasons the government backed off anti-competitive lawsuits was MS agreed to aid the government in spying through OS backdoors.
Of course, starting to "donate" to politicians (the real reason behind the laws in the first place, regulators and attorneys general being classical "useful idiots") also helped too.
They don't have total control over any food except their own engineered food.
If you have issues with contamination, say so. Clearly you also have problems with people developing new products and being secure in their exclusive right to it for a limited period.
You are no friend of humanity. This destroys technological progress, leading to megadeaths through delayed tech advancement.
You just have no parallel world you can show with corpses piled up to compare to the more rapidly-advancing eociety.
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Argument from made up reference has a distinguished pedigree on Slashdot. Hardly a thread goes by without someone using argument-from-In-Star-Trek-We-See-That...
Actually, AI people debate about whether humans are truly intelligent -- it's a running joke that every time people figure out a solution that is generally agreed to require intelligence, it turns out it doesn't.
Some more famous cases are chess, pattern recognition, voice recognition, voice synthesis, character recognition, and walking and hopping.
This is not just bad guessing -- when people say, well, a humam is intelligemt because they have a "deep understanding" of X, nobody really knows if that statement has any real meaning -- humans may just be a big bag of specialized but prosaic routines.
Facial recognition? Guess
Ironically, one of the big AI-is-coming-and-then-some people, Mr. Omega Point himself, Vernor Vinge, in his sci-fi novel Rainbows End, has tech where they actually digitize books by throwing them into a shredder which blows the confetti up into the air and high-speed, high resolution cameras feed it into computers which un-jigsaw it.
This irritates people because the book is destroyed in the process, but it is all done throuh prosaic programming, not AI.
"Hands on" means you got to play around with it for a little bit. This was not that in the slightest. Hence a "hands on" demo is fraudulent, at least as described after the fact once it became apparent that was not the case.
Is this the same SAP that's (mis)used by companies to do employee timesheet entry?
God is so, I'm surpeised it took this long.
Good for this study!
Every law is a theory. Would that more receive scientific study. That it works in you mind when you rub your chin is worse than piss-poor effort.
This is what air conditioners are for.
Do not mod this down. This is exactly the kind of thing that needs to be said, and loudly.
Gets it?
That's why all these big companies have suites of thousands of patents -- so they can force a capitulation to mutual sharing agreements. The judge is just trying to hurry this process.
He gets it, but not in the way the OP thinks.
Umfortunately the city government still allows the worst nuclear offender of all -- people with penises.
What should a future programmer do over the summer before college?
Take a manual labor job, lose weight and get in shape. You'll be surprised how much easier it is to get pussy. You may not even have to work at it. And we didn't have cougar match up sites on top of it.
If they were feigning faux Greek when inventing the word "Prius", then Greek rules would indeed apply. Fail.
No but if you then fraudulently misused the info, aye, there's he rub.
Foor most people, you wouldn't need encryption or security. You wouldn't need locks on doors or keys for cars. It's because there are lousy jackasses out there that these things are needed.
And now chronic drunks rejoice -- this bud's for you!
Microsoft may have certain patents on business models that will be enhanced in value if freewheeling competitive models are squelched.
I hate to be cynical, but corporations rent-seeking to hamper competition is the problem, not the solution.
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You are partly correct but not for he reason you think.
Good, kind-hearted government isn't releasing this information to benefit the consumer by embarrassing companies (beliefs of low-level government functionaries, AKA "useful idiots", aside).
It was done in an election year to panic banks by stirring up outrage in the hoi polloi such that banks would be afraid Congress would be driven to act.
This will have the intended effect (by the "useful idiots'" bosses) that the bosses will get lots of donations.
Your error, as many make, is in the assumption this feedback loop between government and business is driven by business thwarting Good Stewardship for cackling, nefarious reasons rather than that politicians seek this power so they can get in the way and thus get paid to get back out of the way.
This has much better predictive and explanatory power than the "evil business thwarts good politicians" theory -- more evidence? Sure. Look at most other countries around he world where he desired jobs [i]are government jobs[/i] and this is raised to a hih art form.
In the 70s, I had a tiny, portable, wireless music streaming device.
Just sayin'. It had many pre-categorized music data type channels, or "stations".
In fact, the DVD, the Blue Ray, there wasn't none of that crap back in 1970. We didn't know about a World Wide Web -- was a whole different game being played back when I was a kid.
Wanna get down in a cool way? Picture yourself on a beautiful day -- big bell bottoms and groovy long hair, just walkin in style -- with a CD player? No! You would listen to the music on the AM radio!
And what's the alternative?
Bombing?
Assassination?
Giving them fat secret Swiss bank account numbers?
Oh, wait. Relying on their good nature as motivation rather than their murderous power hunger. Right. Forgot, sorry!
This is me, and will be you, eventually when the next latest and greatest damned thing comes to change your life for the eleventyth twelfthtish time.
I've been through a number of cycles of The One True Greatest Solution For All Time a whole bunch of times now.
As The Comedian says, "It's a joke. It's all a joke."
Great, massive, scalable frameworks that we are to write once in, and that's it, it's nothing but code reuse and minor tweaks for as far as the eye can see...until three or four (or two) years goes by and it's all changed and you have to re-write everything all over again...once and for all.
Until the next few years goes by.
Entire graphical e-z layouts with auto code generation. General purpose driver systems. Document data sharing models. Database storage systems with query languages.
It's a joke. It's all a joke. Mother, don't you dare fuckin' forgive them.
Also to be fair, a Google tablet wih Android sounds cool. A Microsoft tablet wih a Windows version smacks of me-too-ism.
Not counting the awsomely sweet cachet of Microsoft, which could save the day when compared to Google Android or Apple iPad, of course. Let's not forget that.
Nah, it's the cachet aspect to it.
A few years ago my daughter got into Purdue Engineering. We went down for the "women in engineering" orientation, which met in a big auditorium. Then they split the girls up by group and sent each off to their field-specific info.
"And now all the biomedical engineers stand up..." and over half stood up, at least 70.
> weighed over 7000kg
Actually, it weighed over 15400 lbs.
"Moles" assumes they don't have permission. Years ago I hypothesized one of the reasons the government backed off anti-competitive lawsuits was MS agreed to aid the government in spying through OS backdoors.
Of course, starting to "donate" to politicians (the real reason behind the laws in the first place, regulators and attorneys general being classical "useful idiots") also helped too.
They don't have total control over any food except their own engineered food.
If you have issues with contamination, say so. Clearly you also have problems with people developing new products and being secure in their exclusive right to it for a limited period.
You are no friend of humanity. This destroys technological progress, leading to megadeaths through delayed tech advancement.
You just have no parallel world you can show with corpses piled up to compare to the more rapidly-advancing eociety.