Seriously, is there even one appointee that Trump made that is even halfway honest and above-board? Or are they all really corrupt and/or incompetent and/or have their own secret agenda that has nothing to do with protecting and serving the United States?
LOL maybe you basement dwelling neckbeards believe that, but since all Slashdot knows about me is a totally fake name and an email address, that really doesn't count for anything.
Be a yellow-bellied abject fucking coward and accept the governmental and corporate erection up your ass all you like, buddy, if that's what makes you happy. Maybe they'll even give you a nice kiss afterwards, if you ask nicely for seconds. Fucking loser won't even be bothered to fight, LOL.
Oh fuck off. You don't work in any such field yourself, you're not an AI researcher, you're not a neuroscientist, so you don't know a goddamned thing yourself.
No one has 'all my personal' anything on their phone, and I don't use ANY 'social media', so there's nothing anyone I know has that can leak to anyone else.
Wow, and people have accused me of being a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nut. Or are you trolling me? Either way you're dumb and/or wrong, depending on what part of your rant I want to address -- and I can't be bothered to sit here and pick it apart. Calm down.
There are things you can't change, things that only our legislators can affect, but you can still take back a measure of your privacy moving forward -- you just have to be willing to do what it takes to make that happen.
If it makes you happy, I'm pretty sure you could hand-tweak the CPU clock PLL to put out at least very close to 4.77Ghz, but you might have to also tweak it's reference clock to get it.;-)
Every gods-be-damned week, there's more of this shit happening.
You all have exactly TEN SECONDS to justify to me why, in 2018, with this shit happening every gods-be-damned week, you'd ever sign up for any internet service that requires your real name and other personal information. Lunacy, it's all lunacy.
..from cigarettes to plastic, to atom bombs, polluting industries, medicine that causes genetic harm, and so on, and so on.
Those aren't tools; some are weapons, which are a distinctly different category, some are just materials, and some are just nuisances. A computer is a tool. Computer code is, in a way, a tool. A robot is a tool. Before you even say it, pre-emptive strike: A tool can be harmful if it's used as a weapon (i.e. I whack your head off with a shovel); we're not going to descend into mincing words here, though, and if you do then I will whack your head off with a shovel, stet?
What I'm 'fixated' on, if I actually am (which I'm not) is that the whole approach to so-called 'AI' is completely wrong and a dead end. Furthermore for some of the tasks they want to use it for (SDC's I'm looking at YOU), which need to operate in a world purpose-built for humans, not machines, it NEEDS to UNDERSTAND US, not be the vague half-assed 'deep learning' crap they keep trotting out. It's not cutting it now and I do not believe it will cut it, EVER. Disagree with me all you want, argue with me all you want, insult me all you want, it will not change my opinion.
Congratulations, you've got the message: Marketing hype drives all of it. There's already so much invested in something the likely mistakenly thought was going to be another simple development cycle, and like the bridge in Zork, they get 99.999% of the way to the other side, only to find that they can't seem to get to 100%.
Flight is easy by comparison. All you need to observe how flight works, really, is just your eyes. A camera would help. A movie camera would help even more. A wind tunnel helps with experiments, as would a number of other purely physical measuring devices. Do you see where I'm going with this? Flight is a purely physical thing that happens on a macroscopic scale. How a human brain works is on a microscopic scale. Furthermore you can't dismantle a brain and expect to get anything useful from it so far as how it functions when it's alive, it's too dynamic and complex for that, and we do not have sufficient instrumentation to sufficiently observe the incredibly complex system that is the human brain while it's in operation. Functional MRI is stone knives and bearskins compared to the task of mapping all the functions, in real time, of a human brain. Seriously, if we could do it, we'd have done it already, and the world of I, Robot would be a reality. Clearly it's not. Maybe someday, but that day is not today or anytime soon.
We can't 'direct' something that we don't understand. We haven't got a clue how the phenomenon of 'consciousness' 'self awareness' or 'sentience' actually works in our own brains; the current approach in my opinion is fatally flawed and will not ever produce these phenomenon; it's like a million monkeys mashing keys on a million typewriters for a million years, expecting to get a duplication of Shakespeares' works. If and when we have the instrumentation to understand how our own brains produce these phenomena, then maybe we'll be able to build machines that can do that, too, but so far as I'm concerned not until then. It's wishful thinking at best otherwise, and delusional at worst, and falling for marketing hype the whole way.
Nature managed to do it IN A FEW MILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION
Fixed that for you. Also these machines don't evolve, we build them. They don't reproduce, there's no natural selection, just us idiot arrogant humans, thinking we can do an end-run around all of it.
I swear to you all.. it's like everyone read TMIAHM, and actually believes that if you hook together enough hardware, it'll magically become a sentient self-aware synthetic mind like Mike in the book. Sorry, doesn't work that way, and until we solve the riddle of sentience, all these 'deep learning algorithms' will always fall short of whatever expectations you might have, no matter how much hardware you throw at it.
We all know they are pushing as hard as they can to remove humans from the equation and it's going to happen slowly.
Are you a Dominionist? Are you actively hoping for the Apocalypse to happen, so the Second Coming of Christ (allegedly), the Rapture, and all that stuff, happens? End of the world? No? Then why are you apparently predicting the downfall of human civilzation and our species, as we descend into endless warfare because The Machines Have Taken Over, everyone is fired from their jobs because they're 'obsolete', and people are starving in the streets, causing the uprising of Warlords, organizing everyone into armies, to fight for their survival, destroy the machines and The Few who control them?
..okay, I'm exaggerating as much as I possibly can, because the entire idea, since I first heard it, of 'machines taking everyones jobs' is utterly ridiculous. Not only do I disbelieve it'll ever happen, I am also certain to a very high degree of confidence that it won't be allowed to happen, either. Machines are tools. Our species creates tools to help us. Creating tools that harm us, as a species, is a ridiculous concept, always has been, always will be.
There will be jobs for people. You may not see what they'll be just yet. You, and everyone else, needs to calm down, relax, and stop channelling your inner Chicken Little, the sky is emphatically not falling. Everything is going to be just fine. This is no different than when any other new technology came along; there is a Growing Pains period, followed by a New Age of Prosperity because of the new technology. It's all happened before countless times, it's happening again now, and it'll happen countless times again in the future, for as long as there is human civilization on this planet. Oh and by the way if the New Technology ends up not benefitting us? Then the New Technology will get deprecated, disregarded, and scrapped. That's also happened before, may happen this time, and may well happen again in the future. Everything is going to be fine.
The presentation I saw showed a design that literally recycles it's own so-called waste products. I'm not a physicist and certainly not a nuclear physicist but the nuclear physicist presenting this was allegedly an expert in his field so there has to be a certain amount of 'belief' (as much as I hate that word) in what was being presented. What I'm saying is that it's all still worth being open-minded about. Why is that so wrong? Closed-mindedness never benefits anyone.
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Seriously, is there even one appointee that Trump made that is even halfway honest and above-board? Or are they all really corrupt and/or incompetent and/or have their own secret agenda that has nothing to do with protecting and serving the United States?
By the way; Slashdot is a form of social media.
LOL maybe you basement dwelling neckbeards believe that, but since all Slashdot knows about me is a totally fake name and an email address, that really doesn't count for anything.
Be a yellow-bellied abject fucking coward and accept the governmental and corporate erection up your ass all you like, buddy, if that's what makes you happy. Maybe they'll even give you a nice kiss afterwards, if you ask nicely for seconds. Fucking loser won't even be bothered to fight, LOL.
Oh fuck off. You don't work in any such field yourself, you're not an AI researcher, you're not a neuroscientist, so you don't know a goddamned thing yourself.
No one has 'all my personal' anything on their phone, and I don't use ANY 'social media', so there's nothing anyone I know has that can leak to anyone else.
Wow, and people have accused me of being a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nut. Or are you trolling me? Either way you're dumb and/or wrong, depending on what part of your rant I want to address -- and I can't be bothered to sit here and pick it apart. Calm down.
There are things you can't change, things that only our legislators can affect, but you can still take back a measure of your privacy moving forward -- you just have to be willing to do what it takes to make that happen.
If it makes you happy, I'm pretty sure you could hand-tweak the CPU clock PLL to put out at least very close to 4.77Ghz, but you might have to also tweak it's reference clock to get it. ;-)
Nope nope nope, not enough nope in the Universe for this, no virtual keyboard, real keyboard only, kthxbye.
Every gods-be-damned week, there's more of this shit happening.
You all have exactly TEN SECONDS to justify to me why, in 2018, with this shit happening every gods-be-damned week, you'd ever sign up for any internet service that requires your real name and other personal information. Lunacy, it's all lunacy.
..from cigarettes to plastic, to atom bombs, polluting industries, medicine that causes genetic harm, and so on, and so on.
Those aren't tools; some are weapons, which are a distinctly different category, some are just materials, and some are just nuisances. A computer is a tool. Computer code is, in a way, a tool. A robot is a tool. Before you even say it, pre-emptive strike: A tool can be harmful if it's used as a weapon (i.e. I whack your head off with a shovel); we're not going to descend into mincing words here, though, and if you do then I will whack your head off with a shovel, stet?
You don't have to have all the answers to see that something just isn't going to work.
What I'm 'fixated' on, if I actually am (which I'm not) is that the whole approach to so-called 'AI' is completely wrong and a dead end. Furthermore for some of the tasks they want to use it for (SDC's I'm looking at YOU), which need to operate in a world purpose-built for humans, not machines, it NEEDS to UNDERSTAND US, not be the vague half-assed 'deep learning' crap they keep trotting out. It's not cutting it now and I do not believe it will cut it, EVER. Disagree with me all you want, argue with me all you want, insult me all you want, it will not change my opinion.
Congratulations, you've got the message: Marketing hype drives all of it. There's already so much invested in something the likely mistakenly thought was going to be another simple development cycle, and like the bridge in Zork, they get 99.999% of the way to the other side, only to find that they can't seem to get to 100%.
Flight is easy by comparison. All you need to observe how flight works, really, is just your eyes. A camera would help. A movie camera would help even more. A wind tunnel helps with experiments, as would a number of other purely physical measuring devices. Do you see where I'm going with this? Flight is a purely physical thing that happens on a macroscopic scale. How a human brain works is on a microscopic scale. Furthermore you can't dismantle a brain and expect to get anything useful from it so far as how it functions when it's alive, it's too dynamic and complex for that, and we do not have sufficient instrumentation to sufficiently observe the incredibly complex system that is the human brain while it's in operation. Functional MRI is stone knives and bearskins compared to the task of mapping all the functions, in real time, of a human brain. Seriously, if we could do it, we'd have done it already, and the world of I, Robot would be a reality. Clearly it's not. Maybe someday, but that day is not today or anytime soon.
We can't 'direct' something that we don't understand. We haven't got a clue how the phenomenon of 'consciousness' 'self awareness' or 'sentience' actually works in our own brains; the current approach in my opinion is fatally flawed and will not ever produce these phenomenon; it's like a million monkeys mashing keys on a million typewriters for a million years, expecting to get a duplication of Shakespeares' works. If and when we have the instrumentation to understand how our own brains produce these phenomena, then maybe we'll be able to build machines that can do that, too, but so far as I'm concerned not until then. It's wishful thinking at best otherwise, and delusional at worst, and falling for marketing hype the whole way.
So-called 'intelligence' without 'sentience' is worse than nothing.
Nature managed to do it IN A FEW MILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION
Fixed that for you. Also these machines don't evolve, we build them. They don't reproduce, there's no natural selection, just us idiot arrogant humans, thinking we can do an end-run around all of it.
I swear to you all.. it's like everyone read TMIAHM, and actually believes that if you hook together enough hardware, it'll magically become a sentient self-aware synthetic mind like Mike in the book. Sorry, doesn't work that way, and until we solve the riddle of sentience, all these 'deep learning algorithms' will always fall short of whatever expectations you might have, no matter how much hardware you throw at it.
We all know they are pushing as hard as they can to remove humans from the equation and it's going to happen slowly.
Are you a Dominionist? Are you actively hoping for the Apocalypse to happen, so the Second Coming of Christ (allegedly), the Rapture, and all that stuff, happens? End of the world? No? Then why are you apparently predicting the downfall of human civilzation and our species, as we descend into endless warfare because The Machines Have Taken Over, everyone is fired from their jobs because they're 'obsolete', and people are starving in the streets, causing the uprising of Warlords, organizing everyone into armies, to fight for their survival, destroy the machines and The Few who control them?
..okay, I'm exaggerating as much as I possibly can, because the entire idea, since I first heard it, of 'machines taking everyones jobs' is utterly ridiculous. Not only do I disbelieve it'll ever happen, I am also certain to a very high degree of confidence that it won't be allowed to happen, either. Machines are tools. Our species creates tools to help us. Creating tools that harm us, as a species, is a ridiculous concept, always has been, always will be.
There will be jobs for people. You may not see what they'll be just yet. You, and everyone else, needs to calm down, relax, and stop channelling your inner Chicken Little, the sky is emphatically not falling. Everything is going to be just fine. This is no different than when any other new technology came along; there is a Growing Pains period, followed by a New Age of Prosperity because of the new technology. It's all happened before countless times, it's happening again now, and it'll happen countless times again in the future, for as long as there is human civilization on this planet. Oh and by the way if the New Technology ends up not benefitting us? Then the New Technology will get deprecated, disregarded, and scrapped. That's also happened before, may happen this time, and may well happen again in the future. Everything is going to be fine.
It doesn't scale up; all you need is a four-banger calculator to figure that out. Enough already.
More surveillance.
It's a shame they can't make one that's powered by body heat.
Why would you think of such a thing, Neo?
..so long as Microsoft controls it completely, so it's not competing with their paid products, I'm sure. One word: Crippleware.
The presentation I saw showed a design that literally recycles it's own so-called waste products. I'm not a physicist and certainly not a nuclear physicist but the nuclear physicist presenting this was allegedly an expert in his field so there has to be a certain amount of 'belief' (as much as I hate that word) in what was being presented. What I'm saying is that it's all still worth being open-minded about. Why is that so wrong? Closed-mindedness never benefits anyone.
What is "learning from our past mistakes", Alex?