The article says over half the human workforce would be unemployed - probably not: they would be employed in factories which would make those robots, until those factories are run by other smarter robots, which again need to be designed by humans. So human beings, let alone being made jobless by robots, will be the trigger for robotic evolution.
The chief minister of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh reporteedly told Bill Gates of his state government's decision to stick to OSS for all goverment documentation and web-based information systems, stating that public information cannot be tied up by proprietary software. So there is a silver lining still.
If we put two Alices talking to each other and start off with a random 'seed' question, wouldn't something 'creative', some new ideas or thoughts, ever emerge out of the conversation?
Participants of 'Who wants to be a Millionaire' could have this implant done, and with friends and family figuring out a joint answer on the other end of the phone, could walk away with the prize.
And students cheating during exams??
Most Broadband VLSI companies have their own internal standards that closely track the 802.3ae, and so does the chip spec. For this reason, many XG chips sampling or in the fab now differ very slightly from this golden standard (may be 2-3 months at the most, and minute in terms of difference of functionality ). So, practically speaking, this is not significant. However, waiting for this Godot is finally over and that is great news.:-)
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The article says over half the human workforce would be unemployed - probably not: they would be employed in factories which would make those robots, until those factories are run by other smarter robots, which again need to be designed by humans. So human beings, let alone being made jobless by robots, will be the trigger for robotic evolution.
Is the splash screen (on Linux I've found it annoying) still there?
The chief minister of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh reporteedly told Bill Gates of his state government's decision to stick to OSS for all goverment documentation and web-based information systems, stating that public information cannot be tied up by proprietary software. So there is a silver lining still.
If we put two Alices talking to each other and start off with a random 'seed' question, wouldn't something 'creative', some new ideas or thoughts, ever emerge out of the conversation?
Participants of 'Who wants to be a Millionaire' could have this implant done, and with friends and family figuring out a joint answer on the other end of the phone, could walk away with the prize. And students cheating during exams??
Most Broadband VLSI companies have their own internal standards that closely track the 802.3ae, and so does the chip spec. For this reason, many XG chips sampling or in the fab now differ very slightly from this golden standard (may be 2-3 months at the most, and minute in terms of difference of functionality ). So, practically speaking, this is not significant. However, waiting for this Godot is finally over and that is great news. :-)