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  1. Re:Maybe they should just reduce their fees on Maryland Awards 21 Grants To Prepare 'Open Source' Textbooks (usmd.edu) · · Score: 1

    Their incentive is perks from the publisher.

  2. ...to show me just those that contain pictures of an arbitrary object.

    You don't need very advanced AI to show pictures of arbitrary objects, though.

  3. Re:Islamisation and slavery on Steve Wozniak Predicts The Future (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    No, because here in the West we kept our guns.

    In Europe, the Islamists have more guns than the natives.

  4. Re:AMD 486 DX2/66. on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    I remember buying RAM for $7 per kilobyte.

  5. Re:Mistakes on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    despite about half a century of intense research.

    For the first 40 years, we didn't have fast enough hardware. So, really, we've just started, and progress is pretty quick these days.

  6. Re:Remember, this is "weak" AI on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Dunno about you, but this is not how my mind works. I honor or ignore stop signs depending on the present conditions (e.g. empty roads at night, etc). How's that weak?

    The recognition of the stop sign is weak. You don't go: "hey, that's a red octagonal sign with the word "STOP" in it, I think that's a stop sign", you just automatically recognize is. In your case, the recognition is then tied to a more complex decision mechanism.

  7. Re:Remember, this is "weak" AI on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the green light automatically overrules the stop sign. It's just a more complicated pattern.

    Of course, as the situation becomes more complicated, for instance, a fallen tree is blocking the road, then you become aware of the situation, and start thinking about what happened, and making a plan on how to proceed.

  8. Re:Speed Bump on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    AIs have never surpassed human performance (of course, you always need to compare to a human expert)

    You must not have heard about AlphaGo.

  9. Re:Remember, this is "weak" AI on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people will surely not stop after a few trips and will instead learn that that one specific instruction is false. That part we do not teach our AIs which makes them weak. The AI will fall for the prank every time

    Correct, but that's because we haven't put a lot of effort in the AI to learn from its mistakes. That would probably required a different design of the network, with feedback, instead of simple layering from image pixels to classification output.

  10. Re:Anyone who actually makes this stuff realizes t on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And we have even less of an idea what consciousness is. According to the current scientific state-of-the-art, there is no physical mechanism for consciousness, yet it clearly exists. Of course, said AI fanatics will say nonsense like ...

    If you have no idea what it is, how would you know that it is nonsense ?

    there is no physical mechanism for consciousness

    If there's no physical mechanism, how/why did it evolve ?

  11. Re:Remember, this is "weak" AI on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of human image processing is also "weak", just a bit more advanced. When you're driving, and you see a stop sign, you don't really think about it, or "understand" in a deeper sense. You just automatically stop.

  12. Re: BK = BLACKLISTED on Burger King Won't Take a Hint; Alters TV Ad To Evade Google's Block (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Surely, you mean this one:

    https://www.xkcd.com/1807/

  13. Re:That's my first thought on Virgin Media Starts Turning Customer Routers Into Public Wi-Fi Hotspots (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    there's a snowball's chance in hell the ISP is going to pay your legal fees

    They make money off of this service, so it's in their interest to defend their customers, otherwise nobody will use it after the first mishap. Besides, it will be an easy case for them, because all they have to do is grab the login credentials, and hand them the name and address of the real abuser.

  14. Re:Not only no, but hell no on Virgin Media Starts Turning Customer Routers Into Public Wi-Fi Hotspots (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The guest will get his own IP address, completely separate from the rest of the router, and the ISP will log the IP address together with the guest credentials. The router location is irrelevant.

  15. Re:Should be opt-in and not opt-out... on Virgin Media Starts Turning Customer Routers Into Public Wi-Fi Hotspots (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Just like they can on private networks.

  16. 4G costs data which translates to money. Wifi doesn't.

    I pay $15 for 10GB/month, and I typically only use around 5-6GB of that, so saving data does not save money.

  17. Re:Should be opt-in and not opt-out... on Virgin Media Starts Turning Customer Routers Into Public Wi-Fi Hotspots (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The ISP knows who's using the connection, so that should be fairly easy.

  18. 4G is now good enough that it's just not worth the hassle of connecting to unreliable WiFi hotspots, and losing connection every time you go out of range. Do they even support seamless connection handover as you walk down the street ?

  19. Re:So what can you use this water for? on New Solar-Powered Device Can Pull Water Straight From the Desert Air (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I mean if drinking distilled water is bad for you, long term, without adding the minerals that your body needs, that's not really a good solution

    There are minerals in the food.

  20. Re:Billions of people? on New Solar-Powered Device Can Pull Water Straight From the Desert Air (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So, the UN breaks down "desert" into "desert, arid, grassland and rangeland".

    So, when someone says "desert" are they talking about LHS or RHS of the equation ?

  21. The water that went into the pit or tank decades ago is coming out tomorrow too. And the atmosphere is constantly in motion. The air mass that's over a desert today will be over the ocean next week, and the other way around.

  22. If you're lucky that the vertically video wasn't letterboxed already, so that watching it on a vertical screen results in letterboxing on all 4 sides. I saw that the other day. Good thing I'm not neurotic.

  23. Re:from the biased report... on AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course there are going to be MORE incarcerated blacks if they are being unfairly incarcerated MORE often.

    Nice story. Now all you have to do is prove the bit where most of the black people have been incarcerated unfairly.

  24. Re:Self fulfilling prophecies... on AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Crime causes poverty, not the other way around.

    That explains the 19 old kids I see driving around in a BMW convertible.

  25. Removing humidity from the air might even enhance that.

    Nearly all that water will go back to the air in the next day as you sweat/pee it back out, so it wouldn't matter.