...I currently am employed with a pretty major defence contractor working on some classified projects for the Dod...
Hmm. Once I use the patriot act to subpeona your ip address from slashdot you won't be.
Really, come on dude loose lips sink ships and all that.
Intel and Microsoft seem to be codependent on each others worst features. Windows contains many backward compatible 'thunk' layers that in turn depend on the idiosyncracies of the x86 architecture. On the other hand, the GNU/Linux totality of projects contain source codes that span multiple hardware configurations and software environments. With distributions free to come and go as architectures do, GNU/Linux is able to adapt to new and changing environments faster than the Wintel symbiosis can. Linux run's on everything, Windows is mired in x86 specific code and Intel is a victim of it's own success as backwards compatibility is the only reason the x86 set still exists.
As other posters have pointed out, it would be difficult to hold your arms up for extended periods. However, if paired with good voice recognition imagine mostly talking with occasionally moving/adjusting objects.
It almost levels the playing field again, an army of little guys can tie the big players up like Gulliver being tied down by lilliput's in his travels.
It's more like 90% pattern matching, 5% positive feedback effector systems and 5% adaptive selection of all engrams*.
Source
* A physical alteration thought to occur in living neural tissue in response to stimuli, posited as an explanation for memory.
Um. Yeah. Or something like that.
Somewhere in Redmond, Bob says to Ed: Ed, you broke word with your last media player removal patch. Ed: Dammit, somebody might think I was trying to sabotage it!
Wouldn't using a live CD as your OS as an internet cafe owner save you megabucks on the hard drives you didn't have to buy? Not to mention no spyware dangers, or no users mucking up the configuration of the machines? And as a customer, simply rebooting when your done would clear all sensitive information.
... Then supervise your kids, don't make gov't do it for you!...
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make! This kind of thing pisses me off, check out this article on CNN right now, basically to me it say's that the American way of doing things is always to shift the blame/responsibility onto someone else. No. People are responsible for their own actions - period. And if your not an adult then your parents are responsible for you.
Parental supervision is not big brother. Children are not considered independent or competant to manage their own lives until they reach the age of majority.
How about we make a law that says that you can't legally use the internet without supervision until you turn 18? Seems to me this would preserve my right to view pr0n while putting the onus on parents of children to stop using the net as an unattended babysitter.
Seriously, children should not be allowed to use the net unattended - it's not a babysitter and "dumbing" the internet down to a level that's safe for children pushes more adults off of the net than it allows children on.
The biggest test of the translator is converting from one language to another and then back again multiple times. If the content doesn't get corrupted then it works as advertised.
Using statistical methods to predict the next item in a sequence is still not true hard ai though, this technique is used with the voice recognition software "Dragon Natually Speaking" creating in effect pattern chains. What Dragon did on the character level this software appears to do on the word level. This is still not true AI however, as the statistics will only map to probabilistic sequences not abstractly map instead to the concepts. What would really impress me is if they came up with a mapping algorithm that instead of using probability used a function like mini-max fitness testing on a neural-network substrate.
It would be interesting to see the results of analysing large sections of languages however, but the only immediate use I can fathom for this would be for cryptography or information compression algorithms. However the results could probably be used to provide insight into how languages evolve or how memes spread from language to language.
Or the brief explanation in the article did not make it clear enough how this differs from what was previously state-of-the-art, e.g. Dragon.
I think if you start with a pre-conceived notion of a pattern you'll start seeing it everywhere simply by the fact that you are looking for it. If you had some idea like the number 213 in your head then you would start to look for it in your environment and by looking for it would find it all over the place. This has a feedback effect as by looking for something you see it more often creating the impression that it is common when in fact, it may not be.
It seems to me that these chips would not replace the standard digital cpu's we have today, however they would instead complement their abilities. Adding a stochastic simulator chip would create a hybrid digital/probabilistic computer. Depending on the type of information that was being processed different chips would be employed. Your intel/amd chip would still do the digital/lossless functions while the stochastic chip would process data that is more resistant to loss of information or lossy.
...If "fair use" is vague in copyright law, what's stopping artists and labels from adding it back into the licensing contract?...
Probably the fact the they would never get a contract in the first place if they insisted on such a clause.
Humans have emotions such as love to ensure we care for our young and parters - love has had positive selection along evolution. But what need for love would an intelligent probe need out around Saturn?
I'm not saying that emotions shouldn't be pursued for machines however. Emotions are great for giving us a general feeling about our environment, a sort of basic situational awareness. For example, if you had burned yourself previously on a stove you would probably be more wary of it through association with pain than if you had not.
As for reproduction, in my opinion it's a non-issue that's actually more a bit of flamebait. Your kid ask's you where he came from and you'll tell him 'your mom'. A robot will just come from the factory and that's all. It would simply be one of those facts of life that a mind would learn early and just be one more datum within it's set of common knowledge.
If there's one thing that the last 60+ years of research into artificial or machine intelligence has shown is that there is no clear definition of intelligence. There are different types of intelligence for example muscle control, visual processing, tactile interpretation, olfactory classifying, and so on. With these rough subdivisions great strides has been made in creating successful "modules" for them, but what has eluded and probably will stay elusive for the near future is the general cognitive intelligence that orchestrates the interplay between the rough subdivisions.
...300:LDA $C030...
The A, X, and Y registers on the 6502 are eight bit, so the maximum value you'd be able to load is:
LDA #$FF
The platform for that code is probably C64 as the jump table was stored right at the high end of memory. But the Apple II's also used a 6502 so it could be them too.
Democratic societies seem to abhor seeing their sons and daughters killed in war. Just think about a hundred years from now, the outcry that would be raised when a rear base of drone operators had actually been killed. Robot war machines let democracies exersize their will without actually having to dirty yourself with the experience of war.
Whether or not thats a good thing, I don't know.
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...I currently am employed with a pretty major defence contractor working on some classified projects for the Dod...
Hmm. Once I use the patriot act to subpeona your ip address from slashdot you won't be.
Really, come on dude loose lips sink ships and all that.
Intel and Microsoft seem to be codependent on each others worst features. Windows contains many backward compatible 'thunk' layers that in turn depend on the idiosyncracies of the x86 architecture. On the other hand, the GNU/Linux totality of projects contain source codes that span multiple hardware configurations and software environments. With distributions free to come and go as architectures do, GNU/Linux is able to adapt to new and changing environments faster than the Wintel symbiosis can. Linux run's on everything, Windows is mired in x86 specific code and Intel is a victim of it's own success as backwards compatibility is the only reason the x86 set still exists.
As other posters have pointed out, it would be difficult to hold your arms up for extended periods. However, if paired with good voice recognition imagine mostly talking with occasionally moving/adjusting objects.
Finally, a good explanation for the data-gloves Reeves used in the movie.
It almost levels the playing field again, an army of little guys can tie the big players up like Gulliver being tied down by lilliput's in his travels.
For a good introduction to incompleteness of mathematical systems people should really check out Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid.
This book basically describes Godel's incompleteness theorem in an entertaining way for a general audience.
It's more like 90% pattern matching, 5% positive feedback effector systems and 5% adaptive selection of all engrams*.
Source
* A physical alteration thought to occur in living neural tissue in response to stimuli, posited as an explanation for memory.
Um. Yeah. Or something like that.
Somewhere in Redmond, Bob says to Ed: Ed, you broke word with your last media player removal patch. Ed: Dammit, somebody might think I was trying to sabotage it!
Wouldn't using a live CD as your OS as an internet cafe owner save you megabucks on the hard drives you didn't have to buy? Not to mention no spyware dangers, or no users mucking up the configuration of the machines? And as a customer, simply rebooting when your done would clear all sensitive information.
... Then supervise your kids, don't make gov't do it for you!...
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make! This kind of thing pisses me off, check out this article on CNN right now, basically to me it say's that the American way of doing things is always to shift the blame/responsibility onto someone else. No. People are responsible for their own actions - period. And if your not an adult then your parents are responsible for you.
Parental supervision is not big brother. Children are not considered independent or competant to manage their own lives until they reach the age of majority.
How about we make a law that says that you can't legally use the internet without supervision until you turn 18? Seems to me this would preserve my right to view pr0n while putting the onus on parents of children to stop using the net as an unattended babysitter.
Seriously, children should not be allowed to use the net unattended - it's not a babysitter and "dumbing" the internet down to a level that's safe for children pushes more adults off of the net than it allows children on.
The biggest test of the translator is converting from one language to another and then back again multiple times. If the content doesn't get corrupted then it works as advertised.
Using statistical methods to predict the next item in a sequence is still not true hard ai though, this technique is used with the voice recognition software "Dragon Natually Speaking" creating in effect pattern chains. What Dragon did on the character level this software appears to do on the word level. This is still not true AI however, as the statistics will only map to probabilistic sequences not abstractly map instead to the concepts. What would really impress me is if they came up with a mapping algorithm that instead of using probability used a function like mini-max fitness testing on a neural-network substrate.
It would be interesting to see the results of analysing large sections of languages however, but the only immediate use I can fathom for this would be for cryptography or information compression algorithms. However the results could probably be used to provide insight into how languages evolve or how memes spread from language to language.
Or the brief explanation in the article did not make it clear enough how this differs from what was previously state-of-the-art, e.g. Dragon.
Everyone knows that we will eventually build the equipment that creates the Universe. I mean if we didn't then we wouldn't be here so we did right?
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. -- Samuel Butler
I think if you start with a pre-conceived notion of a pattern you'll start seeing it everywhere simply by the fact that you are looking for it. If you had some idea like the number 213 in your head then you would start to look for it in your environment and by looking for it would find it all over the place. This has a feedback effect as by looking for something you see it more often creating the impression that it is common when in fact, it may not be.
It seems to me that these chips would not replace the standard digital cpu's we have today, however they would instead complement their abilities. Adding a stochastic simulator chip would create a hybrid digital/probabilistic computer. Depending on the type of information that was being processed different chips would be employed. Your intel/amd chip would still do the digital/lossless functions while the stochastic chip would process data that is more resistant to loss of information or lossy.
...If "fair use" is vague in copyright law, what's stopping artists and labels from adding it back into the licensing contract?...
Probably the fact the they would never get a contract in the first place if they insisted on such a clause.
...but infrared is one of the more usable windows from Earth...
Infrared does not make it through the atmosphere in any fine detail.
Humans have emotions such as love to ensure we care for our young and parters - love has had positive selection along evolution. But what need for love would an intelligent probe need out around Saturn?
I'm not saying that emotions shouldn't be pursued for machines however. Emotions are great for giving us a general feeling about our environment, a sort of basic situational awareness. For example, if you had burned yourself previously on a stove you would probably be more wary of it through association with pain than if you had not.
As for reproduction, in my opinion it's a non-issue that's actually more a bit of flamebait. Your kid ask's you where he came from and you'll tell him 'your mom'. A robot will just come from the factory and that's all. It would simply be one of those facts of life that a mind would learn early and just be one more datum within it's set of common knowledge.
If there's one thing that the last 60+ years of research into artificial or machine intelligence has shown is that there is no clear definition of intelligence. There are different types of intelligence for example muscle control, visual processing, tactile interpretation, olfactory classifying, and so on. With these rough subdivisions great strides has been made in creating successful "modules" for them, but what has eluded and probably will stay elusive for the near future is the general cognitive intelligence that orchestrates the interplay between the rough subdivisions.
I did some googling and the Apple II used a 6502 processor while the Commodore 64 used a 6510.
Yeah it might, I was thinking about that after I posted.
...300:LDA $C030...
The A, X, and Y registers on the 6502 are eight bit, so the maximum value you'd be able to load is:
LDA #$FF
The platform for that code is probably C64 as the jump table was stored right at the high end of memory. But the Apple II's also used a 6502 so it could be them too.
Democratic societies seem to abhor seeing their sons and daughters killed in war. Just think about a hundred years from now, the outcry that would be raised when a rear base of drone operators had actually been killed. Robot war machines let democracies exersize their will without actually having to dirty yourself with the experience of war.
Whether or not thats a good thing, I don't know.