The reason why I avoid working from home is because in office there is not much to be done other than work, in home I wouldn't trust myself to get anything done, I'm a master procrastinator.
Its not like regular human "intelligence" is terribly robust in comparison. Humans might do better with image recognition but questions like "Should I buy this lottery ticket" often result in very unintelligent answers.
Does it matter what you call it as long as you understand what it is? Calling these neural networks AI is not far off too, they do after all meet most goalposts ever raised about the issue of "what is (weak) AI", we can keep moving the goalposts, but arguing over semantics is kinda petty. I'd just call DeepMind an AI and be done with it, if it doesn't quite meet science fiction definition of AI, what of it?
I think the difference is that Tesla has quite the growth potential while Ford, well doesn't. Obviously the downside is that the moment Tesla stops living up to the expectations the stocks will crash to nothing. So short-sellers are not really wrong, it wouldn't take much for Tesla stocks to crash and burn, they are ridiculously overpriced. But as long as Tesla keeps doing spectacularly they stay overpriced. Stock prices are more about expectations of future performance than present situation.
Mining asteroids is pretty much a joke, if you disregard novelty value space rocks are worth no more that good old fashioned regular rocks, getting them back to earth however is absurdly expensive. There is however a place where any kind of mass has value, that's up in space, for the simple reason of how much it costs to get anything up there. So if you could mine the space rocks, turn it into engineering materials and manufacture technology usable in space out of them, well that would have value. But it's kind of a catch 22, you pretty much need to get entire industrial manufacturing chain up there to do that but you can't do that because it would be absurdly expensive. You would have to pretty much bootstrap entire manufacturing economy up there from scratch and for that you would need significant manpower on whatever rock you decide to rebuild civilization on. Not going to happen on asteroid, near 0g is not suitable for long term habitation. Might be theoretically doable on Moon or Mars, but we don't know for sure if low gravity of these places is actually any better than 0g.
Hopefully so, but they need to significantly increase their launch rate anyway, to industry at large it doesn't matter if they fly the rockets for free if they only do 10 a year.
Bypassing safety for convenience is a common thing unfortunately, but so are badly designed safety systems that fail to meet the regulations. Robot itself probably has up to spec safety, Fanuc is an old player, but its not really about the robot, its about everything around the robot. Its quite possible that the system integrator figured, "ah screw it" and created something that wasn't really safe.
There is a fine line between an AI that can program and one that cant, luckily its easy to distinguish one from the other. All you need to do is let the AI loose at its own codebase and if its like all other programming AI-s before it it will muck things up, crash and burn. If however your AI is the very first successful programming AI you will get AI singularity and humankind will possibly be exterminated the next day, hasn't happened yet but there is really no way to gauge how far we are. Could happen tomorrow for all i know, but i wouldn't bet on it. AI that can do programming is just exponential self improvement away from general AI, you could say that writing an AI capable of programming is probably the easiest way to go about creating an general AI. Its also all theoretical because nobody has managed to figure it out yet and it doesn't look very promising so far.
Surely there is no clear cut answer for a question like that. I personally am much more suited to working in office and can never get anything done at home, surely there are people with opposite working environment preferences.
Personally I work on industrial equipment software, that means my work needs to be done where the actual hardware is and remote work is in most cases not viable, if it means traveling half way across the word then so be it. Some software project lend itself to remote work better than others, some projects you can complete entirely remotely, some you can break off pieces to be done remotely and sometimes you must have boots on the ground.
As with any team, success depends on what is worked on, who does the work and how its managed, there are no golden rules to fit all situations.
Totally doable with any decent industrial robot. Also completely irrelevant, labor spent on assembly is not a major component of a robot arm cost. Assembling a copy of itself is a party trick at best.
Not everyone who learns math at highschool becomes a mathematician, basic math skills are still really useful to have in almost any field of life. Same thing with programming, programming skills are not only applicable if you become a professional programmer. Computer is THE tool in majority of professions out there, knowing how it works and how to make it do some task that only applies to your job specifically is a huge benefit to anyone.
Ask yourself, how many times you have heard of stories about office workers struggling with some dumb task that should really be taken care of by software, only nobody working at it realizes software even could take care of it?
Teaching a bit of programming to kids is a no-brainer really.
Math is not for everyone and not everyone will gain even a modest benefit from learning math. Furthermore this shit has been highly automated over the past decade or two. Yet we still teach kids math, programming is much the same, one could even generalize and say that programming is just a branch of discrete math, a very useful branch at that.
Lets face it, in all likelihood emDrive is complete bunk, its probably just an overly complicated Crookes radiometer. But sure, test it out, worst that could happen is an cautionary tale like the one about n-rays.
Theft of all kinds if inevitable in retail, you just chuck it up with all the other operational costs and operational costs are after all included in the price of all the items.
Any work that can be viably done by a machine, should be done by a machine, employing people for the sake of employing people is just downright moronic. Lets face it, sooner or later there will be very few jobs that actually need doing by a human, its going to happen anyway and lots of people will simply not have a job to do. Society will have to figure out this problem sooner or later anyway. We'll do just fine and figure it out.
20X acceleration in methane concentration over 16 years, I doubt we have changed our methane emissions that much over that time? Didn't we have bunch of articles some time ago about melting permafrost, bubbling tundra and the positive feedback loop this creates? Kind of sounds more probable source than cows or whatnot, we have not started to have that many more cows over such a short period after all.
Heh, yeah obviously it will not be different, it will soar and crash as it always has. However, and this is the beauty of bitcoin, no matter how hard it crashes it never really goes away and will just come back stronger than before. Bitcoin is a brilliant and terrifying idea if i have ever seen one, if it becomes what its designed to become and that's no small if, it will rock the world. Will it eventually replace nation currencies, who knows, its not as far fetched as one might think, the potential is there. We are not talking about replacing any mayor currencies to start with, but just imagine a small and weak national currency crashing and burning real badly, is it so far fetched for a small nation to pick up bitcoin? Maybe not quite yet, but if it happens at a peak of another bitcoin hype, could happen you know. And if bitcoin continues coming back stronger every time, I think it will happen eventually. Once there is one country using it, its no stretch to see a second country adopting and so forth.
For what? Telecom industry is a 2e12$ business(yearly) globally. If one company can provide 1Gbps internet anywhere in the world, maybe tag TV on it, potentially even stuff the capability into cellphones.... mon-dieu, that could be the global monopoly to beat East India Company out of the history books.
Are they actually capable of doing it, I don't know, but if they did, well they sky is the limit as far as potential goes.
The part that is driving around the tractors on the fields, yeah obviously, there are clear benefits to having a tractor do its own thing without constant supervision. Autonomous vehicles need to be allowed on public roads first, because machines do need to move between fields etc, but yeah, totally viable. The no part is when things break down, decisions need to be made etc etc. Same as any automation really, you make the machine manage on its own, but you still need maintenance, you still need to manage the business side etc etc.
And its not going to happen on mom and pops cabbage plot, automation is difficult, but on large scale, yeah it can pay off very nicely. I would say farming is the most automated field already, yeah the combine harvester needs a driver, but you don't need 1000 peasants with sickles anymore. Now its just a matter of optimizing away that driver.
Farming automation business case is remarkably similar to open pit mining automation the huge difference from automation point of view are the public roads that machines need to traverse from field to field. But it looks like that problem is mostly solved by now and its just a matter of legislation.
He wont, it all good and well to talk taxes and crap, but where oh where are they going to find 100 000 americans willing to sit 12h a day 6 days a week behind a conveyor line inserting the same damn screw into an iPhone every 10s for months on end for a minimum wage? Only way to do it would be to bring these workers from outside US, say why not China? Kind of defeats the point.
Its called demagogy, saying what you know to be bullshit to those you know to be idiots. Shame on you if you didn't see it coming ages ago. It was blatantly obvious that trump didn't believe half the bullshit he spewed to rouse the masses of morons and get the votes. One does not get to be a billionaire by being stupid, being an excellent liar on the other hand has its benefits.
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The reason why I avoid working from home is because in office there is not much to be done other than work, in home I wouldn't trust myself to get anything done, I'm a master procrastinator.
Its not like regular human "intelligence" is terribly robust in comparison. Humans might do better with image recognition but questions like "Should I buy this lottery ticket" often result in very unintelligent answers.
Does it matter what you call it as long as you understand what it is? Calling these neural networks AI is not far off too, they do after all meet most goalposts ever raised about the issue of "what is (weak) AI", we can keep moving the goalposts, but arguing over semantics is kinda petty. I'd just call DeepMind an AI and be done with it, if it doesn't quite meet science fiction definition of AI, what of it?
CPU prowess is hardly the limitation, the problem is reliability of vision algorithms. Getting vision to work reliably is hard.
I think the difference is that Tesla has quite the growth potential while Ford, well doesn't. Obviously the downside is that the moment Tesla stops living up to the expectations the stocks will crash to nothing. So short-sellers are not really wrong, it wouldn't take much for Tesla stocks to crash and burn, they are ridiculously overpriced. But as long as Tesla keeps doing spectacularly they stay overpriced. Stock prices are more about expectations of future performance than present situation.
Mining asteroids is pretty much a joke, if you disregard novelty value space rocks are worth no more that good old fashioned regular rocks, getting them back to earth however is absurdly expensive. There is however a place where any kind of mass has value, that's up in space, for the simple reason of how much it costs to get anything up there. So if you could mine the space rocks, turn it into engineering materials and manufacture technology usable in space out of them, well that would have value. But it's kind of a catch 22, you pretty much need to get entire industrial manufacturing chain up there to do that but you can't do that because it would be absurdly expensive. You would have to pretty much bootstrap entire manufacturing economy up there from scratch and for that you would need significant manpower on whatever rock you decide to rebuild civilization on. Not going to happen on asteroid, near 0g is not suitable for long term habitation. Might be theoretically doable on Moon or Mars, but we don't know for sure if low gravity of these places is actually any better than 0g.
Hopefully so, but they need to significantly increase their launch rate anyway, to industry at large it doesn't matter if they fly the rockets for free if they only do 10 a year.
Uhuh, go tell that to the Chinese in Shenzhen Foxconn - all 500 000 of them.
Isn't there a circular airfield in Lithuania already? Pochunai or some place like that? Grass airfield for light aircraft, but the point is the same.
Bypassing safety for convenience is a common thing unfortunately, but so are badly designed safety systems that fail to meet the regulations. Robot itself probably has up to spec safety, Fanuc is an old player, but its not really about the robot, its about everything around the robot. Its quite possible that the system integrator figured, "ah screw it" and created something that wasn't really safe.
Nutritional value of fungi is pretty much zero tho
There is a fine line between an AI that can program and one that cant, luckily its easy to distinguish one from the other. All you need to do is let the AI loose at its own codebase and if its like all other programming AI-s before it it will muck things up, crash and burn. If however your AI is the very first successful programming AI you will get AI singularity and humankind will possibly be exterminated the next day, hasn't happened yet but there is really no way to gauge how far we are. Could happen tomorrow for all i know, but i wouldn't bet on it. AI that can do programming is just exponential self improvement away from general AI, you could say that writing an AI capable of programming is probably the easiest way to go about creating an general AI. Its also all theoretical because nobody has managed to figure it out yet and it doesn't look very promising so far.
Surely there is no clear cut answer for a question like that. I personally am much more suited to working in office and can never get anything done at home, surely there are people with opposite working environment preferences. Personally I work on industrial equipment software, that means my work needs to be done where the actual hardware is and remote work is in most cases not viable, if it means traveling half way across the word then so be it. Some software project lend itself to remote work better than others, some projects you can complete entirely remotely, some you can break off pieces to be done remotely and sometimes you must have boots on the ground. As with any team, success depends on what is worked on, who does the work and how its managed, there are no golden rules to fit all situations.
Totally doable with any decent industrial robot. Also completely irrelevant, labor spent on assembly is not a major component of a robot arm cost. Assembling a copy of itself is a party trick at best.
Not everyone who learns math at highschool becomes a mathematician, basic math skills are still really useful to have in almost any field of life. Same thing with programming, programming skills are not only applicable if you become a professional programmer. Computer is THE tool in majority of professions out there, knowing how it works and how to make it do some task that only applies to your job specifically is a huge benefit to anyone. Ask yourself, how many times you have heard of stories about office workers struggling with some dumb task that should really be taken care of by software, only nobody working at it realizes software even could take care of it? Teaching a bit of programming to kids is a no-brainer really.
Math is not for everyone and not everyone will gain even a modest benefit from learning math. Furthermore this shit has been highly automated over the past decade or two. Yet we still teach kids math, programming is much the same, one could even generalize and say that programming is just a branch of discrete math, a very useful branch at that.
Lets face it, in all likelihood emDrive is complete bunk, its probably just an overly complicated Crookes radiometer. But sure, test it out, worst that could happen is an cautionary tale like the one about n-rays.
Theft of all kinds if inevitable in retail, you just chuck it up with all the other operational costs and operational costs are after all included in the price of all the items.
Any work that can be viably done by a machine, should be done by a machine, employing people for the sake of employing people is just downright moronic. Lets face it, sooner or later there will be very few jobs that actually need doing by a human, its going to happen anyway and lots of people will simply not have a job to do. Society will have to figure out this problem sooner or later anyway. We'll do just fine and figure it out.
20X acceleration in methane concentration over 16 years, I doubt we have changed our methane emissions that much over that time? Didn't we have bunch of articles some time ago about melting permafrost, bubbling tundra and the positive feedback loop this creates? Kind of sounds more probable source than cows or whatnot, we have not started to have that many more cows over such a short period after all.
Heh, yeah obviously it will not be different, it will soar and crash as it always has. However, and this is the beauty of bitcoin, no matter how hard it crashes it never really goes away and will just come back stronger than before. Bitcoin is a brilliant and terrifying idea if i have ever seen one, if it becomes what its designed to become and that's no small if, it will rock the world. Will it eventually replace nation currencies, who knows, its not as far fetched as one might think, the potential is there. We are not talking about replacing any mayor currencies to start with, but just imagine a small and weak national currency crashing and burning real badly, is it so far fetched for a small nation to pick up bitcoin? Maybe not quite yet, but if it happens at a peak of another bitcoin hype, could happen you know. And if bitcoin continues coming back stronger every time, I think it will happen eventually. Once there is one country using it, its no stretch to see a second country adopting and so forth.
For what? Telecom industry is a 2e12$ business(yearly) globally. If one company can provide 1Gbps internet anywhere in the world, maybe tag TV on it, potentially even stuff the capability into cellphones.... mon-dieu, that could be the global monopoly to beat East India Company out of the history books. Are they actually capable of doing it, I don't know, but if they did, well they sky is the limit as far as potential goes.
The part that is driving around the tractors on the fields, yeah obviously, there are clear benefits to having a tractor do its own thing without constant supervision. Autonomous vehicles need to be allowed on public roads first, because machines do need to move between fields etc, but yeah, totally viable. The no part is when things break down, decisions need to be made etc etc. Same as any automation really, you make the machine manage on its own, but you still need maintenance, you still need to manage the business side etc etc. And its not going to happen on mom and pops cabbage plot, automation is difficult, but on large scale, yeah it can pay off very nicely. I would say farming is the most automated field already, yeah the combine harvester needs a driver, but you don't need 1000 peasants with sickles anymore. Now its just a matter of optimizing away that driver. Farming automation business case is remarkably similar to open pit mining automation the huge difference from automation point of view are the public roads that machines need to traverse from field to field. But it looks like that problem is mostly solved by now and its just a matter of legislation.
He wont, it all good and well to talk taxes and crap, but where oh where are they going to find 100 000 americans willing to sit 12h a day 6 days a week behind a conveyor line inserting the same damn screw into an iPhone every 10s for months on end for a minimum wage? Only way to do it would be to bring these workers from outside US, say why not China? Kind of defeats the point.
Its called demagogy, saying what you know to be bullshit to those you know to be idiots. Shame on you if you didn't see it coming ages ago. It was blatantly obvious that trump didn't believe half the bullshit he spewed to rouse the masses of morons and get the votes. One does not get to be a billionaire by being stupid, being an excellent liar on the other hand has its benefits.