Of course the point of the article is that, if we can balance a robot the size of a man a single ball, we can probably make an extremely stable two-leged robot with small feet (and not weighting half as much as the body of the robot) of the same size.
In other words couldn't this whole project be automated for the most part?
The project is automated for the most parts. Most of its knowledge will come from inference from the knowledge entered by users. It would be like a deaf and blind child that can't use its senses to learn about the world but that could interact in a written form.
If you tell it "a grape is a fruit" it will infer "a grape is food" therefore "a living animal can eat a grape". This is simple inference but Cyc has a lot of more high level knowledge.
Well, I'm less in the camp of "let's give them common sense !" right now, but considering that no one has ever made a working AI, I find it postperous to say that a particular way of doing is bogus. I think Lenat is not liked by the research community because he left it in order to make CycCorp. From what I see, he made a piece of software that worked a bit, called Eurisko, published a few papers on it and was kept asking "but how did you chose this parameter" "Why did you chose 10% as a synonym for 'a bit of'", he couldn't just answer "I just fiddled with the values and hacked something that worked", it would have taken him years to demonstrate everything, he prefered to leave the academic research and founded a company.
I know this sounds a lot like a fake biography of some marketers out there, but a year ago I got pretty interested in the workings of Eurisko and it made me see the progression of the work of D. Lenat. I really think he is a good inventor and a bad researcher, he can make things work but this sometimes requires some non-scientific kick-it-with-a-hammer skills that can not ever get published
I'd rather have a potentiometer then. Sometimes I would need 8 MHz (for my 286 version of Alley Cats) , some other times 33Mhz, some others 166MHz...
Ho, yeah, this should of course have a logarithmic scale, this goes without saying...
Just reading TFA right now, but I got pretty interested in this tech a year ago...
Cyc (I don't know for openCyc) there is a natural language module, I never had the occasion to work on Cyc and they promised it for OpenCyc 1.0. The goal of it is to be able to feed from large text corpus exactly like the wikipedia, full of general knowledge.
The goal of Cyc is to be able to resolve conflicts between two apparent contradicting proposition. Example:
* George W. Bush is the president of the USA.
* In 1790, George Washington is the president of the USA.
Cyc is built with a sense of context. Where a simple NL (natural language) parser would not understand it, Cyc has the following common sense knowledge or has inferred it:
- a president is a living human being
- presidency is a mandate limited in time
- only one human being can be president of a given region at one time
- a human being can not live two hundred years
- "In 1790" denotes the past
It can know make a serie of hypotheses:
GW Bush is a human being.
GW Bush is a living human being.
GW Bush is the current president of USA
GW Bush is was president of USA at an unspecified time
Georges Washington is still president of the USA (and "in 1790" must be interpreted in another way)
Georges Wasington and GW Bush are both president of the USA (and therefore we must be in an unknown context where the rule of the uniqueness of a president of the USA is false)
etc...
Given its knowledge, it can order its hypotheses from more probable to less probable given the cost of the assumptions it must make to maintain each of its hypotheses. So yes, I would say it can feed from the wikipedia to some extent.
A lesser known fact about CycCorp is that they work with the NSA on the Terrorrist Information Awareness program, already datamining GiBs of natural language datas.
So basically, what you are saying is that the slashdot crowd paranoia is justified but only misdirected ? Note that I agree wholeheartedly. After all, there has been phone wire-tapping, e-mail is probably watched too, but I believe it is easier to do it directly through the (willing) servers and ISPs than through a patch to a single OS that can always reverse-engineered.
Well, at least "copyright violation" has the advantage to not imply that you killed someone to get it or that you are treasonous to your country. It still states clearly that something illegal is made "violation".
Well, even with this attitude, I have a few things to "hide" that are not embarassing things : - my credit card number - my door code number - my social security number - my windows XP key (yes I was forced to buy one) - my root passwords I agree, these shouldn't appear in my web searches, but this is to show you we can't live without any privacy.
Plus there are things that I am not embarrassed with, but that I hide from some people because I know they can not deal with it like adults, these could be revealed by a look at my google searches. Imagine the following scenarios: - a boss who thinks linux is communism (don't laugh) - a gal who thinks role-playing is (only) a sexual fetish - an aunt who thinks heavy-metal is satanism - a co-worker who thinks that "The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America" is an extremist propaganda book (it is a shadowrun supplemental) and refuse to take the plane with me.
Now I agree that in a perfect world, we could work on these different points of view. I could give a technical explanation to my boss, bring the gal to a RPG session (no you don't need to wear anything special), listen a Manowar CD with my aunt and convince my co-worker that a book with advices for smuggling isn't necessarily evil. But now, in this world, lies by omission has become a virtue, a god-gift that allows us to live in society, and keep peace between the sales department, the IT department, the security staff, the management department.
For those unaware of it, the CERN is a European laboratory studying physics. It is known for his huge particle accelerators, apart from being the instigator of the Web (as dubious as this claim might be). The photo linked here is a rendering of a collision in the accelerator and, while in-topic with the CERN has clearly nothing to do with the Web.
Ohhhh, dear. Scriptures? You mean his Discworld fantasy novels?
No, I mean His Discworld Fantasy Novels !
I would also add that in this theology theory, going after someone trying to convince him he'll go to hell should be punished as severely as actual physical torture. Ahhhh, that gives me a legal angle to attack these Jehovah's witnesses
Yup. I would consider that begining with 2000, windows had become pretty stable. However, it was too late for me. I have never been an early adopter and was always late in the hardware race. W2K and Win XP are too ressource-hungry for me. I am happy I am knowledgeable enough to configure a debian and not have to chose between security, stability and performance.
Just the first step. Now they can try to alter chips without invalidating their own passports. If the encryption isn't bulletproof, it won't take long to see Osama with a tourist visa.
Well, would you take the risk to leave copies of your passport in the wild ? Here is how to use a copied passport : Find someone of your size with a beard. Taint your hairs, use lens for the color of your eyes, stop shaving, get used to be called 'Gunter'.
Photos are anything but secure. I wouldn't even trust fingerprints for anything serious.
Don't German security consultants also specialize in building super-bunkers for Islamic terror states like Iran?
And now they've compromised the future US passport as well?
3 words to describe this -
state sponsored terrorism.
I know you are humorous. But you are insightful in your humor. See how easy it is to put something against anyone in the "war on terror" ? Now in three sentences, that is far-fetching, but if it was released day after day in news report, I am confident you could turn the majority of US opinion against any country in the world.
Ah! I knew I would learn new thing by making such a risky assumption:-) Well, now we can make statistics, there are 25% of linux servers out there and 3% of desktop machines (according to wikipedia, itself citing IDC). What portion of the pests do we get ?
Well, this argument, being used toward Linux users or Mac users, has to stop. We all know that there has been flaws in linux kernel, Mac OS X and windows XP. They are known, thay are published and for most of them corrected. We all know there are more, waiting to be discovered.
BUT, and you'll notice this is a capital 'but', I have never seen a worm propagate across linux computers (I don't know for macs, I'm not a user of these). I mean, in the 98 era, windows computers were plagued with these. In the pre-SP1 era too. I have never seen a *single* self-propagating thingie for linux. The first one to do such a feat would get a lot of credit in the "scene" (if such a thing still exists). I, for one, believe that the security design of the OS is not stranger to this clean record.
We don't want linux applications. We want open source applications. We like linux because it is open and is the OS with has the more open applications.
I use linux on a daily basis but I'd rather see more open-source windows application than closed-source linux application.
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Of course the point of the article is that, if we can balance a robot the size of a man a single ball, we can probably make an extremely stable two-leged robot with small feet (and not weighting half as much as the body of the robot) of the same size.
"The Korean Dog Sex Weapon"
Now I see the headlines...
In other words couldn't this whole project be automated for the most part?
The project is automated for the most parts. Most of its knowledge will come from inference from the knowledge entered by users. It would be like a deaf and blind child that can't use its senses to learn about the world but that could interact in a written form.
If you tell it "a grape is a fruit" it will infer "a grape is food" therefore "a living animal can eat a grape". This is simple inference but Cyc has a lot of more high level knowledge.
Well, I'm less in the camp of "let's give them common sense !" right now, but considering that no one has ever made a working AI, I find it postperous to say that a particular way of doing is bogus. I think Lenat is not liked by the research community because he left it in order to make CycCorp. From what I see, he made a piece of software that worked a bit, called Eurisko, published a few papers on it and was kept asking "but how did you chose this parameter" "Why did you chose 10% as a synonym for 'a bit of'", he couldn't just answer "I just fiddled with the values and hacked something that worked", it would have taken him years to demonstrate everything, he prefered to leave the academic research and founded a company.
I know this sounds a lot like a fake biography of some marketers out there, but a year ago I got pretty interested in the workings of Eurisko and it made me see the progression of the work of D. Lenat. I really think he is a good inventor and a bad researcher, he can make things work but this sometimes requires some non-scientific kick-it-with-a-hammer skills that can not ever get published
I'd rather have a potentiometer then. Sometimes I would need 8 MHz (for my 286 version of Alley Cats) , some other times 33Mhz, some others 166MHz ...
Ho, yeah, this should of course have a logarithmic scale, this goes without saying...
Just reading TFA right now, but I got pretty interested in this tech a year ago...
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Cyc (I don't know for openCyc) there is a natural language module, I never had the occasion to work on Cyc and they promised it for OpenCyc 1.0. The goal of it is to be able to feed from large text corpus exactly like the wikipedia, full of general knowledge.
The goal of Cyc is to be able to resolve conflicts between two apparent contradicting proposition. Example
* George W. Bush is the president of the USA.
* In 1790, George Washington is the president of the USA.
Cyc is built with a sense of context. Where a simple NL (natural language) parser would not understand it, Cyc has the following common sense knowledge or has inferred it
- a president is a living human being
- presidency is a mandate limited in time
- only one human being can be president of a given region at one time
- a human being can not live two hundred years
- "In 1790" denotes the past
It can know make a serie of hypotheses
GW Bush is a human being.
GW Bush is a living human being.
GW Bush is the current president of USA
GW Bush is was president of USA at an unspecified time
Georges Washington is still president of the USA (and "in 1790" must be interpreted in another way)
Georges Wasington and GW Bush are both president of the USA (and therefore we must be in an unknown context where the rule of the uniqueness of a president of the USA is false)
etc...
Given its knowledge, it can order its hypotheses from more probable to less probable given the cost of the assumptions it must make to maintain each of its hypotheses. So yes, I would say it can feed from the wikipedia to some extent.
A lesser known fact about CycCorp is that they work with the NSA on the Terrorrist Information Awareness program, already datamining GiBs of natural language datas.
So basically, what you are saying is that the slashdot crowd paranoia is justified but only misdirected ? Note that I agree wholeheartedly. After all, there has been phone wire-tapping, e-mail is probably watched too, but I believe it is easier to do it directly through the (willing) servers and ISPs than through a patch to a single OS that can always reverse-engineered.
Well, at least "copyright violation" has the advantage to not imply that you killed someone to get it or that you are treasonous to your country. It still states clearly that something illegal is made "violation".
Well, even with this attitude, I have a few things to "hide" that are not embarassing things :
- my credit card number
- my door code number
- my social security number
- my windows XP key (yes I was forced to buy one)
- my root passwords
I agree, these shouldn't appear in my web searches, but this is to show you we can't live without any privacy.
Plus there are things that I am not embarrassed with, but that I hide from some people because I know they can not deal with it like adults, these could be revealed by a look at my google searches. Imagine the following scenarios:
- a boss who thinks linux is communism (don't laugh)
- a gal who thinks role-playing is (only) a sexual fetish
- an aunt who thinks heavy-metal is satanism
- a co-worker who thinks that "The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America" is an extremist propaganda book (it is a shadowrun supplemental) and refuse to take the plane with me.
Now I agree that in a perfect world, we could work on these different points of view. I could give a technical explanation to my boss, bring the gal to a RPG session (no you don't need to wear anything special), listen a Manowar CD with my aunt and convince my co-worker that a book with advices for smuggling isn't necessarily evil. But now, in this world, lies by omission has become a virtue, a god-gift that allows us to live in society, and keep peace between the sales department, the IT department, the security staff, the management department.
You should be logging the ips downloading the file and leak that in a few days...
Dead too, they are moving fast...
For those unaware of it, the CERN is a European laboratory studying physics. It is known for his huge particle accelerators, apart from being the instigator of the Web (as dubious as this claim might be). The photo linked here is a rendering of a collision in the accelerator and, while in-topic with the CERN has clearly nothing to do with the Web.
Ohhhh, dear. Scriptures? You mean his Discworld fantasy novels?
No, I mean His Discworld Fantasy Novels !
I would also add that in this theology theory, going after someone trying to convince him he'll go to hell should be punished as severely as actual physical torture. Ahhhh, that gives me a legal angle to attack these Jehovah's witnesses
Terry Pratchett said in His Scriptures that one burn in hell only if he believes he deserverse it. I'd like to see a christian prove Him wrong.
Yup. I would consider that begining with 2000, windows had become pretty stable. However, it was too late for me. I have never been an early adopter and was always late in the hardware race. W2K and Win XP are too ressource-hungry for me. I am happy I am knowledgeable enough to configure a debian and not have to chose between security, stability and performance.
Well, last time I checked, the pictures on my passport were in color...
I have yet to learn how someone gets to know a multinational company personaly in real life
Well the linux worm was affecting Apache. I suppose it would also work on apache on mac...
Just the first step. Now they can try to alter chips without invalidating their own passports. If the encryption isn't bulletproof, it won't take long to see Osama with a tourist visa.
Well, would you take the risk to leave copies of your passport in the wild ? Here is how to use a copied passport : Find someone of your size with a beard. Taint your hairs, use lens for the color of your eyes, stop shaving, get used to be called 'Gunter'.
Photos are anything but secure. I wouldn't even trust fingerprints for anything serious.
Don't German security consultants also specialize in building super-bunkers for Islamic terror states like Iran?
And now they've compromised the future US passport as well?
3 words to describe this -
state sponsored terrorism.
I know you are humorous. But you are insightful in your humor. See how easy it is to put something against anyone in the "war on terror" ? Now in three sentences, that is far-fetching, but if it was released day after day in news report, I am confident you could turn the majority of US opinion against any country in the world.
Ah! I knew I would learn new thing by making such a risky assumption :-) Well, now we can make statistics, there are 25% of linux servers out there and 3% of desktop machines (according to wikipedia, itself citing IDC). What portion of the pests do we get ?
Well, this argument, being used toward Linux users or Mac users, has to stop. We all know that there has been flaws in linux kernel, Mac OS X and windows XP. They are known, thay are published and for most of them corrected. We all know there are more, waiting to be discovered.
BUT, and you'll notice this is a capital 'but', I have never seen a worm propagate across linux computers (I don't know for macs, I'm not a user of these). I mean, in the 98 era, windows computers were plagued with these. In the pre-SP1 era too. I have never seen a *single* self-propagating thingie for linux. The first one to do such a feat would get a lot of credit in the "scene" (if such a thing still exists). I, for one, believe that the security design of the OS is not stranger to this clean record.
We don't want linux applications. We want open source applications. We like linux because it is open and is the OS with has the more open applications.
I use linux on a daily basis but I'd rather see more open-source windows application than closed-source linux application.
It isn't about linux. It is about open source.
Well, considering the AC GP saw only far-left and far-right in his political spectrum, I didn't want to confuse him to much :-)