This really sounds like more marketing/media hype that doesn't know what the hell it's talking about, even graded on the scale of the usual clueless, inaccurate so-called 'AI' marketing/media hype. How the hell do you have an 'AI chip' when we don't have anything like actual 'AI' to start with? Also how the hell do you have a 'self driving car chip' when the technology realisitically isn't even really close to ready for the general public? I think the 'translation' of this 'story' is this: They're getting some proprietary version of an otherwise garden-variety CPU or SoC; in other words, 'Nothing to see here'.
Are we approaching the point where the only way your money and valuable personal information is only safe if it's stuffed under your mattress or buried in a coffee can in your yard somewhere? i'm only half kidding.
As cynical as I can be, I actually hope that our evolution as a species manages to pick up faster than we're killing ourselves, because that's what I really think is what it's going to take to save ourselves and this planet from destruction. Sadly I will not live long enough to see what actually happens, I have maybe another 30 or 40 years at best, and I'm fairly sure things overall are going to get much, much worse before they start to get better, socio-politically speaking. In the meantime I'm just trying to survive, man..
I used to scoff furiously at people who didn't believe that protecting their privacy was all that important because "they aren't doing anything to be ashamed of so why should they care?". I'd ask them how they'd feel if I came around and installed cameras and microphones in their houses so they could be watched and listened to 24/7/365; they'd always scoff at me and say "nobody is ever going to do that, that's ridiculous!". And now here we are, in 2017, and these same people are probably the ones installing internet-connected cameras and audio monitoring devices all through their homes, likely without a thought or a care in the world about who might be watching or listening. They are fools.
Joking about all that surveillance gear being used for something as pedestrian as collecting marketing data
Laugh-out-fucking-loud, I'd be so much happier if that's all they were doing with it!
You want to stop ths from happening? You have to change hearts and minds of pretty much everyone on the planet, first. Good luck with that, by the way. We can't get people to stop doing much simpler things (like killing each other over stupid things like this-or-that-so-called-god, or the color of someones skin, and so on) so I don't expect you'll get much traction over something that's going to happen a full lifetime in the future. What'll happen instead, is people will have their hearts and minds change when things get so bad that they can't ignore it anymore -- and even then some of the greedier piece of shit people will still be trying to rob everyone, and of course the religious zealot types will just be talking about it being 'gods will', and trying to recruit people into their stupid faith. Seriously, some days I begin to think that the reason we haven't seen sure signs of alien civilizations in our galaxy is because they did the same stupid shit that we're doing right now, and fucked up their own planet so bad that they all went extinct.
Want to take part in a small experiment, then? Here, put this CPAP mask on your face, there you go. Now, I'll open the valve on this cylinder of gas, and you breathe deeply, okay? What's that? Oh, no worries, really, the risk is small, the gas is 50% pure oxygen and 50% pure carbon.. So, let's open the valve.. (a minute passes) SuperKendall, why are you asleep? Are you bored? Wake up, buddy, we're not done with the experiment yet!
Their 'core business' is to divest the Human Race from their money, and they've done a bang-up job of that. All this 'cyber security' stuff is obviously not of interest to them -- unless it somehow inpinged upon their ability to suck money out of people, in which case I'm sure there were lashings of those dreadful unwashed IT people until situations were improved -- but the data of all us mere peasants? Why should they care about that?
Logging your searches has nothing whatsoever to do with improving the quality of search results because Google, Bing, and Yahoo don't give a damn about YOU, you're just a farm animal that produces data that they sell to so-called 'partner companies' that turn around and shove ads in your feed-box, expecting you to gobble them up, then defecate money that businesses scoop up to put in their pockets. I'm only half-surprised that they don't claim rights to our corpses when we die so they can sell our organs and render the rest of our bodyparts to make glue or lampshades or whatever. #CaptialismGoneBad
This has to be a hoax. The might copy the design to make a controller, but I seriously doubt they'd use an actual Xbox 360 controller, not rugged enough, not waterproof, and so on. I've worked for a military contractor, I have a fair idea what their requirements are, and some plastic consumer thing like that isn't going to pass muster.
Hear, hear. I also abandoned so-called 'social media' a long time ago now, and have no plans to go back to it. I also 'push back' on their 'pushing boundaries' in whatever ways I can -- and encourage others to do the same.
It isn't propaganda, friend, it's reality. There is a pseudo-religious faction out there with some insane ideas. Go look up 'Dominionism', but don't get mad at me if you have nightmares and digestive issues after reading about it. I'll admit that the likelihood of those particular extremists getting their way is small, but there are in fact people in our country right now who really would like to disenfranchise whole swaths of people, not just strip women of their rights as citizens and human beings. It's important that people exercise their rights and privileges as citizens of this country, otherwise there are people out there who would like to pick and choose who has rights of any kind.
Probably the jackasses who have given up on their right to vote (and likely their faith in their Constitutional rights as well) and therefore are willing to let someone else decide how they get to live their lives in this country. Apathy is destroying our country and handing it over on a silver platter to people would would tear up the Constitution entirely and bring us a country that sounds like something out of The Handmaids Tale or Atlas Shrugged. Either that, or it's the shills for the people who want to tear up the Constitution, trying to silence me. Pro-tip: YOU CAN'T.
None of that is suffiicent excuse to eat a pound of bacon every day, or to guzzle flavored sugar water (sodapop) every day, or to in general stuff your face with food until your stomach is bloated every day, either. It's also not an excuse for food companies to produce things that are stuffed with whatever will hook people on eating or drinking it, regardless of how unhealthy those ingredients are, just so they can make the most profit possible, either. Everyone should keep track of what they're eating, weight problem or not, they should all have it pounded into their heads from childhood what is and is not healthy and how to cook for themselves (rather than relying on fast food, restaurants, and other 3rd parties for their food), and food producing companies and restaurants should be more socially conscious about what they're producing and selling to people -- or at least make it clear that while something is tasty, it's not healthy. We're sabotaging ourselves, and have been doing so for a long time now. I'm not saying no one should ever enjoy eating food, or should never, ever eat food that isn't healthy just because it's a tasty treat, but there are way too many people who eat way too many 'treats' every single day, making their choices based on taste rather than what's good for them, and it's killing them.
I know a young woman, married, just became pregnant, who very adamantly will tell you "I'm not political, not at all, I don't care about any of it". Especially since she just gave me the news that she's pregnant, there's something very important I'd like to tell her:
I understand why it is that politics turns you off, but there's something you need to consider, especially since you're going to be a mother soon: There are plenty of people out there who do care to make their wishes known so far as what direction our country will go and how it's run -- and they do not care if you're happy about the results or even what happens to you and your family, so long as they get what they want. There are people out there right now who would see you disenfranchised entirely, merely because you're a woman, make it illegal for you to have your own money, own property, run a business, and considered the 'property' of your husband, who would have the legal right to do with you as he wished -- including beating and killing you, if he felt justified. Do you really want to live in a country like that? Do you want your children to inherit a world like that? That's why you need to care about 'politics': so that your voice, and the voices of everyone who thinks and feels the way you do about things, can be heard, so those who represent you in Congress can work to enact the Will of the People, all the people, not just the rich and the power-hungry. You do it for yourself, you do it for your kids, and their kids, and so on. The alternative is to live like a slave, having no say whatsoever in the course your life takes, because The Few speak while The Many are silent -- or silenced. It doesn't matter if it's something as small as some inconsequential little local ordinance that your city is voting on, or as big as who is President, you either exercise your right to make your wishes known, or someone else will see their wishes enforced on you.
What you're referring to is a sore subject with me, not only in reference to so-called 'AI', but by extension so-called 'self driving/autonomous cars'. People believe the media, and the media has misunderstood these machines they keep referring to as 'AI', and have over-hyped it to the point of being ludicrous -- and people are eating it up. Then there's movies and TV, which show things they refer to as 'AI' (that are human-level fictional AI), and people naturally conflate the fantasy with reality; I'm firmly convinced that way too many people think that what they see on TV and in the movies IS THE REAL THING IN REAL LIFE -- and it's NOT. Worse, politicians seem to not be immune to this either. We're going to get in a lot of trouble because of this, I think.
We are still working on understanding the functioning and capabilities of a single neuron in its brain. That has proven so complex as to defy characterization thus far. We are essentially nowhere in understanding how this 302 cell brain works despite decades of effort.
Nice to see someone else who appreciates the complexity of the problem.
As I see it, a big part of the problem is, that unlike some simple mechanism that you can take apart, examine and measure the parts, then reassemble into a working machine again, you can't do that with living cells let alone a living brain, and we currently lack sufficient instrumentation to really properly observe how brain cells work, let alone the entire 'system' in action, therefore deducing what's really going on involves a lot of guesswork and theorizing. If and when we develop instrumentation that can see inside living cells and observe in detail what's going on inside them, and how they interact with each other, then we'll be on track to figure out how a brain actually works.
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..yeah, nothing to see here, is there?
This really sounds like more marketing/media hype that doesn't know what the hell it's talking about, even graded on the scale of the usual clueless, inaccurate so-called 'AI' marketing/media hype. How the hell do you have an 'AI chip' when we don't have anything like actual 'AI' to start with? Also how the hell do you have a 'self driving car chip' when the technology realisitically isn't even really close to ready for the general public? I think the 'translation' of this 'story' is this: They're getting some proprietary version of an otherwise garden-variety CPU or SoC; in other words, 'Nothing to see here'.
Are we approaching the point where the only way your money and valuable personal information is only safe if it's stuffed under your mattress or buried in a coffee can in your yard somewhere? i'm only half kidding.
As cynical as I can be, I actually hope that our evolution as a species manages to pick up faster than we're killing ourselves, because that's what I really think is what it's going to take to save ourselves and this planet from destruction. Sadly I will not live long enough to see what actually happens, I have maybe another 30 or 40 years at best, and I'm fairly sure things overall are going to get much, much worse before they start to get better, socio-politically speaking. In the meantime I'm just trying to survive, man..
Joking about all that surveillance gear being used for something as pedestrian as collecting marketing data
Laugh-out-fucking-loud, I'd be so much happier if that's all they were doing with it!
Do I need to elaborate?
You want to stop ths from happening? You have to change hearts and minds of pretty much everyone on the planet, first. Good luck with that, by the way. We can't get people to stop doing much simpler things (like killing each other over stupid things like this-or-that-so-called-god, or the color of someones skin, and so on) so I don't expect you'll get much traction over something that's going to happen a full lifetime in the future. What'll happen instead, is people will have their hearts and minds change when things get so bad that they can't ignore it anymore -- and even then some of the greedier piece of shit people will still be trying to rob everyone, and of course the religious zealot types will just be talking about it being 'gods will', and trying to recruit people into their stupid faith. Seriously, some days I begin to think that the reason we haven't seen sure signs of alien civilizations in our galaxy is because they did the same stupid shit that we're doing right now, and fucked up their own planet so bad that they all went extinct.
Want to take part in a small experiment, then? Here, put this CPAP mask on your face, there you go. Now, I'll open the valve on this cylinder of gas, and you breathe deeply, okay? What's that? Oh, no worries, really, the risk is small, the gas is 50% pure oxygen and 50% pure carbon.. So, let's open the valve.. (a minute passes) SuperKendall, why are you asleep? Are you bored? Wake up, buddy, we're not done with the experiment yet!
Heads on poles outside their corporate offices. I'm down with that.
Their 'core business' is to divest the Human Race from their money, and they've done a bang-up job of that. All this 'cyber security' stuff is obviously not of interest to them -- unless it somehow inpinged upon their ability to suck money out of people, in which case I'm sure there were lashings of those dreadful unwashed IT people until situations were improved -- but the data of all us mere peasants? Why should they care about that?
Alexa: Order an IED shipped to 123 Elm Street
*gets delivered by drone*
Sorry, Amazon can't offer you that service, but we're more than happy to deliver your 'shipment' to your 'friend' by DRONE.
..oh, and would you like a text message sent to your phone (*ahem* any phone you like) when it's 'delivered'?
Sorry, Amazon can't offer you that service, but we're more than happy to deliver your 'shipment' to your 'friend' by DRONE.
Now with Amazon Prime and One-Click Ordering your IED gets next-day shipping for free!
Logging your searches has nothing whatsoever to do with improving the quality of search results because Google, Bing, and Yahoo don't give a damn about YOU, you're just a farm animal that produces data that they sell to so-called 'partner companies' that turn around and shove ads in your feed-box, expecting you to gobble them up, then defecate money that businesses scoop up to put in their pockets. I'm only half-surprised that they don't claim rights to our corpses when we die so they can sell our organs and render the rest of our bodyparts to make glue or lampshades or whatever. #CaptialismGoneBad
This has to be a hoax. The might copy the design to make a controller, but I seriously doubt they'd use an actual Xbox 360 controller, not rugged enough, not waterproof, and so on. I've worked for a military contractor, I have a fair idea what their requirements are, and some plastic consumer thing like that isn't going to pass muster.
We already have vending machines. You are not 'inventing' anything. We don't want just vending machines. We WANT convenience stores. GET A CLUE!
Hear, hear. I also abandoned so-called 'social media' a long time ago now, and have no plans to go back to it. I also 'push back' on their 'pushing boundaries' in whatever ways I can -- and encourage others to do the same.
It isn't propaganda, friend, it's reality. There is a pseudo-religious faction out there with some insane ideas. Go look up 'Dominionism', but don't get mad at me if you have nightmares and digestive issues after reading about it. I'll admit that the likelihood of those particular extremists getting their way is small, but there are in fact people in our country right now who really would like to disenfranchise whole swaths of people, not just strip women of their rights as citizens and human beings. It's important that people exercise their rights and privileges as citizens of this country, otherwise there are people out there who would like to pick and choose who has rights of any kind.
Probably the jackasses who have given up on their right to vote (and likely their faith in their Constitutional rights as well) and therefore are willing to let someone else decide how they get to live their lives in this country. Apathy is destroying our country and handing it over on a silver platter to people would would tear up the Constitution entirely and bring us a country that sounds like something out of The Handmaids Tale or Atlas Shrugged. Either that, or it's the shills for the people who want to tear up the Constitution, trying to silence me. Pro-tip: YOU CAN'T.
Let's see how that plays out for everyone when people start DYING because shitty fake AI can't really do the job as advertised.
None of that is suffiicent excuse to eat a pound of bacon every day, or to guzzle flavored sugar water (sodapop) every day, or to in general stuff your face with food until your stomach is bloated every day, either. It's also not an excuse for food companies to produce things that are stuffed with whatever will hook people on eating or drinking it, regardless of how unhealthy those ingredients are, just so they can make the most profit possible, either. Everyone should keep track of what they're eating, weight problem or not, they should all have it pounded into their heads from childhood what is and is not healthy and how to cook for themselves (rather than relying on fast food, restaurants, and other 3rd parties for their food), and food producing companies and restaurants should be more socially conscious about what they're producing and selling to people -- or at least make it clear that while something is tasty, it's not healthy. We're sabotaging ourselves, and have been doing so for a long time now. I'm not saying no one should ever enjoy eating food, or should never, ever eat food that isn't healthy just because it's a tasty treat, but there are way too many people who eat way too many 'treats' every single day, making their choices based on taste rather than what's good for them, and it's killing them.
I understand why it is that politics turns you off, but there's something you need to consider, especially since you're going to be a mother soon: There are plenty of people out there who do care to make their wishes known so far as what direction our country will go and how it's run -- and they do not care if you're happy about the results or even what happens to you and your family, so long as they get what they want. There are people out there right now who would see you disenfranchised entirely, merely because you're a woman, make it illegal for you to have your own money, own property, run a business, and considered the 'property' of your husband, who would have the legal right to do with you as he wished -- including beating and killing you, if he felt justified. Do you really want to live in a country like that? Do you want your children to inherit a world like that? That's why you need to care about 'politics': so that your voice, and the voices of everyone who thinks and feels the way you do about things, can be heard, so those who represent you in Congress can work to enact the Will of the People, all the people, not just the rich and the power-hungry. You do it for yourself, you do it for your kids, and their kids, and so on. The alternative is to live like a slave, having no say whatsoever in the course your life takes, because The Few speak while The Many are silent -- or silenced. It doesn't matter if it's something as small as some inconsequential little local ordinance that your city is voting on, or as big as who is President, you either exercise your right to make your wishes known, or someone else will see their wishes enforced on you.
What you're referring to is a sore subject with me, not only in reference to so-called 'AI', but by extension so-called 'self driving/autonomous cars'. People believe the media, and the media has misunderstood these machines they keep referring to as 'AI', and have over-hyped it to the point of being ludicrous -- and people are eating it up. Then there's movies and TV, which show things they refer to as 'AI' (that are human-level fictional AI), and people naturally conflate the fantasy with reality; I'm firmly convinced that way too many people think that what they see on TV and in the movies IS THE REAL THING IN REAL LIFE -- and it's NOT. Worse, politicians seem to not be immune to this either. We're going to get in a lot of trouble because of this, I think.
We are still working on understanding the functioning and capabilities of a single neuron in its brain. That has proven so complex as to defy characterization thus far. We are essentially nowhere in understanding how this 302 cell brain works despite decades of effort.
Nice to see someone else who appreciates the complexity of the problem.
As I see it, a big part of the problem is, that unlike some simple mechanism that you can take apart, examine and measure the parts, then reassemble into a working machine again, you can't do that with living cells let alone a living brain, and we currently lack sufficient instrumentation to really properly observe how brain cells work, let alone the entire 'system' in action, therefore deducing what's really going on involves a lot of guesswork and theorizing. If and when we develop instrumentation that can see inside living cells and observe in detail what's going on inside them, and how they interact with each other, then we'll be on track to figure out how a brain actually works.