The more money gets spent on science, the better. Some of it will be wasted, of course, but that's reality. If they even invent one great thing, make one great discovery, then all of humanity benefits.
Now you're intentionally being obtuse. If it were just a matter of time, we could upload our current AI algorithms into a Boston Dynamics piece of hardware and wait.
How effective is general purpose Real Intelligence without being guided?
We can answer that question. If someone stuck you in the room with the game and no instructions, could you get higher than a score of zero? Could you beat the game? For indeed, you are a general purpose Real Intelligence.
Isn't that how deep blue beat a human grand master the first time?
Seems a good step.
If your goal is building an algorithm that can beat a human, then it's a great first step. So if your goal is to create general AI, then it's not a step at all.
These ancient games by themselves aren't particularly interesting though, no one cares if a computer can beat a human. The only reason they are of interest is as a potential stepping stone to general AI.
Do you have any evidence that humans don't need repetition to learn?
You're getting confused. I didn't say "humans never learn by repetition," I said, "humans don't always learn by repetition."
If I say, "My name is phantomFive," a lot of people can remember that the first time. But in any case it won't take thousands of repetitions to remember it.
Also, if I show you how to travel to a particular place, there's a good chance you'll remember it the first time, (or second time) instead of needing to show you 30,000 times.
Also if I teach you the rules of chess, you'll probably be playing right away. You aren't going to want to learn the rules by watching thousands of games until you can intuitively understand. Note that this is also how computers learn the rules of chess, but it is hard-coded, rather than a general algorithm.
It also seems to be something Microsoft does fairly regularly. They have a history of catastrophic failure of services. If they manage to get this one back up, it won't be their worst disaster.
Remember not to trust the cloud: have backups because your stuff might be lost.
I think the essential difficulty they are running into is that a human will look at the screen and say, "Oh, that is a room, there is gravity, and it looks like I can jump." A human doesn't need to play through the scenario 10,000,000 times, humans learn in ways besides just reinforced repetition. I would even suggest that is not our primary form of learning, although it is a powerful one in some situations.
It seems unlikely that a system that only learns through many repetitions will become general intelligence, because there are many things in the universe that cannot be learned that way.
Here is the key quote from the article that vaguely describes the algorithm they used:
The team’s new family of reinforcement-learning algorithms, dubbed Go-Explore, remember where they have been before, and will return to a particular area or task later on to see if it might help provide better overall results. The researchers also found that adding a little bit of domain knowledge, by having human players highlight interesting or important areas, sped up the algorithms’ learning and progress by a remarkable amount.
Also, the tax code is really stealing from the rich to appease the poor. When you look at how much the rich pay in taxes, it turns out that they pay MORE of the taxes than the poor do, with the top few percent paying over half of all taxes collected.
It's actually stealing from the middle class. The top few percent make most of their income from capital gains, paying a lower tax rate (or in some cases, they are able to pay 0%).
You really need some other issue here.. Impeachment just makes Trump a shoe in.
Worth mentioning here that when Clinton got impeached, it pushed his approval rating higher than at any other time during his presidency. Come to think of it, both those guys have similar styles........not surprising they are friends.
A loudmouth bragging rich person who considers himself a self-made man.......how is that not a representation of America? To people who listen to Howard Stern, it's not surprising at all that he won.
I don't believe in taxation. Period. I can only imagine the sheer horror that must be on your face right now.
It's more a look of kindly bemusement and eye-rolling. Such self-certaintly, such a waste of typing......empty words that are supported by ignorance. Ah, to be young again.
Here's an article about giant viruses. The short answer is, "there's a lot we don't know and modern technology is giving us a ton of new techniques for seeing things."
Ah whoops, I got my quotation mark in the wrong place there. It's funny he says "don't be so afraid to try new technologies." Because I know you are completely and demonstrably willing to try new technologies.
For those that do know the in group gets listened to,
I try to avoid companies like this. I prefer it when people get listened to based on the quality of their arguments. And don't tell me that doesn't happen because I know it does.
If you're only converting back and forth to dollars it doesn't matter if it's 100 BTC or 0.01 BTC in the middle, only if you put $100 in does it come out as $99, $95 or $90 on the other side.
I think you should develop this thought further, it's not complete.
1. BitCoin can't replace sovereign or community-controlled currency - it is not the same thing and cannot serve the functions they do (for better and worse).
The way it would work is paper money would be "backed by bitcoin," just like it used to be backed by gold (you didn't have to go around carrying a sack of gold).
I can only see this kind of thing happening if there is such horrible inflation that no one trusts governments anymore. It would have to be really really bad inflation, though, to the point that it seems unlikely (since economic theory gives us the tools to stop inflation).
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The more money gets spent on science, the better. Some of it will be wasted, of course, but that's reality. If they even invent one great thing, make one great discovery, then all of humanity benefits.
Now you're intentionally being obtuse. If it were just a matter of time, we could upload our current AI algorithms into a Boston Dynamics piece of hardware and wait.
The Danger incident was pretty bad....
Are you going to claim that humans only learn through repetition?
How effective is general purpose Real Intelligence without being guided?
We can answer that question. If someone stuck you in the room with the game and no instructions, could you get higher than a score of zero? Could you beat the game? For indeed, you are a general purpose Real Intelligence.
Did you understand what I said?
Isn't that how deep blue beat a human grand master the first time?
Seems a good step.
If your goal is building an algorithm that can beat a human, then it's a great first step. So if your goal is to create general AI, then it's not a step at all.
These ancient games by themselves aren't particularly interesting though, no one cares if a computer can beat a human. The only reason they are of interest is as a potential stepping stone to general AI.
Do you have any evidence that humans don't need repetition to learn?
You're getting confused. I didn't say "humans never learn by repetition," I said, "humans don't always learn by repetition."
If I say, "My name is phantomFive," a lot of people can remember that the first time. But in any case it won't take thousands of repetitions to remember it.
Also, if I show you how to travel to a particular place, there's a good chance you'll remember it the first time, (or second time) instead of needing to show you 30,000 times.
Also if I teach you the rules of chess, you'll probably be playing right away. You aren't going to want to learn the rules by watching thousands of games until you can intuitively understand. Note that this is also how computers learn the rules of chess, but it is hard-coded, rather than a general algorithm.
It also seems to be something Microsoft does fairly regularly. They have a history of catastrophic failure of services. If they manage to get this one back up, it won't be their worst disaster.
Remember not to trust the cloud: have backups because your stuff might be lost.
I think the essential difficulty they are running into is that a human will look at the screen and say, "Oh, that is a room, there is gravity, and it looks like I can jump." A human doesn't need to play through the scenario 10,000,000 times, humans learn in ways besides just reinforced repetition. I would even suggest that is not our primary form of learning, although it is a powerful one in some situations.
It seems unlikely that a system that only learns through many repetitions will become general intelligence, because there are many things in the universe that cannot be learned that way.
The team’s new family of reinforcement-learning algorithms, dubbed Go-Explore, remember where they have been before, and will return to a particular area or task later on to see if it might help provide better overall results. The researchers also found that adding a little bit of domain knowledge, by having human players highlight interesting or important areas, sped up the algorithms’ learning and progress by a remarkable amount.
Back in the day there were frequently stories about "brick and mortar" stores having trouble or closing.
Also, the tax code is really stealing from the rich to appease the poor. When you look at how much the rich pay in taxes, it turns out that they pay MORE of the taxes than the poor do, with the top few percent paying over half of all taxes collected.
It's actually stealing from the middle class. The top few percent make most of their income from capital gains, paying a lower tax rate (or in some cases, they are able to pay 0%).
For citations, see Warren Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Is that fair?
Billionaires avoid paying taxes by borrowing. You, my friend, pay much more in taxes than many rich people.
You really need some other issue here.. Impeachment just makes Trump a shoe in.
Worth mentioning here that when Clinton got impeached, it pushed his approval rating higher than at any other time during his presidency. Come to think of it, both those guys have similar styles........not surprising they are friends.
Democracy is long dead in America.
A loudmouth bragging rich person who considers himself a self-made man.......how is that not a representation of America? To people who listen to Howard Stern, it's not surprising at all that he won.
If I had to guess this was because of a real processor bug Intel didn't want to admit to.
I was wondering that too. The article suggests it is true.
I don't believe in taxation. Period. I can only imagine the sheer horror that must be on your face right now.
It's more a look of kindly bemusement and eye-rolling. Such self-certaintly, such a waste of typing......empty words that are supported by ignorance. Ah, to be young again.
Here's an article about giant viruses. The short answer is, "there's a lot we don't know and modern technology is giving us a ton of new techniques for seeing things."
Ah whoops, I got my quotation mark in the wrong place there. It's funny he says "don't be so afraid to try new technologies." Because I know you are completely and demonstrably willing to try new technologies.
It's funny he says "don't be so afraid to try new technologies. Because I know you are completely and demonstrably willing to try new technologies."
On the plus side, if his ambassadorship works, at least you'll be with the "in" group.
For those that do know the in group gets listened to,
I try to avoid companies like this. I prefer it when people get listened to based on the quality of their arguments. And don't tell me that doesn't happen because I know it does.
So what is the value of bitcoin affected by then? What are the factors that determine it in that scenario?
If you're only converting back and forth to dollars it doesn't matter if it's 100 BTC or 0.01 BTC in the middle, only if you put $100 in does it come out as $99, $95 or $90 on the other side.
I think you should develop this thought further, it's not complete.
1. BitCoin can't replace sovereign or community-controlled currency - it is not the same thing and cannot serve the functions they do (for better and worse).
The way it would work is paper money would be "backed by bitcoin," just like it used to be backed by gold (you didn't have to go around carrying a sack of gold).
I can only see this kind of thing happening if there is such horrible inflation that no one trusts governments anymore. It would have to be really really bad inflation, though, to the point that it seems unlikely (since economic theory gives us the tools to stop inflation).