Imagine being an archaeologist, geologist, paleontologist or land surveyor. Now you can instantly file field reports with your colleagues at home or even archive them into one's own home or office database for safekeeping and later retrieval. It think this will be invaluable to many. The revolution continues.
Since it appears that the content industry (e.g., music and movie) is dead set on destroying our freedoms to safeguard their artificially propped, intellectual "properties", what is needed are alternative technologies. Maybe someone can come up with a do-it-yourself kit that almost anybody can use to build a FREE burner. We must counteract whatever scheme they come up with. We must not let them take away our liberties one by one, a little bit at a time, until there is none left. We must not let the powers that be turn us into drones.
Whether or not you encrypt your emails makes no difference. There are better ways for the goverment and others to spy on you. Check out this link: A new tool of Fascist control.
What is needed are governments that trust their citizens. If a government cannot trust its people, the people cannot trust its government either. But then again, mistrust is what democracy is all about, isn't it? This is the reason for the checks and balances.
If we cannot trust one another, we're fucked! The human species is suffering from collective madness. Worse, there is no cure in sight and technology agravates the problem.
The major downside to something like this is that your running system is really carved in stone. Want to change (or fix!) something in your kernel, add a device driver, etc? Oops.
I see what you mean. Instead of ROM, how about low-power, battery backed CMOS RAM? This way, the system is never really down even when the power is off. The BIOS would have code to restore things like I/O settings to last session and update date/time related stuff if necessary. Just a thought.
The Top 200s' combined sales are 18 times the size of the combined annual income of the 1.2 billion people (24 percent of the total world population) living in "severe" poverty.
We are all being exploited for the only thing we can barter with, our slave labor. Governments and corporations are the slave masters. Both capitalism and communism are systems of slave labor.
Freedom comes from owning a piece of the earth. Unless you control a piece of income property, you are a slave. Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the vast majority. They fool you into thinking you are free but you are not. You are made to compete against your fellow slaves for a living. There is nothing more pathetic than a slave who thinks he is free. It's sad.
As technology progresses, the system will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave economy when robots and advanced artificial intelligences replace all the slaves, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless? It will colapse, that's what.
And don't think for a minute this won't happen in your lifetime. The internet is the latest giant leap in human communication. Before that came mass telecommunication technologies and before that was the movable press. If history is any indication, we can expect a giant leap in technological progress and scientific knowledge. In fact, it is happening before our very eyes.
The wealth of the earth is the earth. We should all demand a system where everybody is guaranteed an estate, a piece of the pie. There is plenty for everybody. Even animals are wise enough to set territories for themselves. What we do with our piece is up to us. No more slavery, no more exploitation! Down with the slave masters!
and there is nothing today like the feeling one gets of stoping a running program on the 64 via the interrupt button on the Snapshot cartridge, entering the ML monitor, messing with the code, exiting the monitor, and re-entering the running program where it was stopped and watching it run with the new changes.
Now that's REAL power!
I can feel your joy.
The 128 is booted, with my text editor loaded and running before the Macintosh has even loaded it's first line of Extension and Control Panel icons. To print labels on the Mac, I have to load a relatively huge program.
Now this is one of my major complaints regarding today's desktop machines. It takes way too long to boot them and get them to speed. I wish someone would do something about that, although I doubt it can be remedied.
Yes, I still use a slide rule, except for those problems that require more than three decimal place answers. Then I use my Texas Instruments SR-40, the "upscale" version of the classic TI-30 "Electronic Slide Rule" calculator. Nothing says "MATHEMATICS" quite like a red LED display.
Dude! With a little bit of creative thinking, you could start a new techie religion. May I suggest you encase your oldest computer in a clear acrylic block, turn it into an idol of worship, and have your flower-children pray and burn candles and incense to it. Also make them wear a gold-plated 6502 chip on the front of their caps. The slide rule is their cross, of course.:-D
Have fun. Don't ever throw away any of that stuff. In a few years it may have archaelogical importance.
From what I know, C-64 had two graphics modes, hires 320x200 with 1 background color and 1 foreground color (could be changed per character [40x25]) and multicolor 160x200 that had 2 extra colors, also there was 8 sprites of size 32x32 pixels (hires) or 16x32 (multicolor). With interlacing it was possible to double the vertical resolution and it was possible to mix the 16 colors to 128 colors. C-64 had 3 voice generators with 3-waveforms (square,sawtooth,sine) plus noise, it was possible due to bug in SID to create digitized sounds (4 bit).
Very interesting. I stand corrected. I take it that, by interlacing, you mean it was possible to interrupt the raster and change color registers on the fly. Thanks raynet.
The custom chip set for the Amiga was designed by Jay Miner who also did the graphics chip set for the Atari 8-bit machines. I don't think he had come over to Commodore when the C64 was being designed, but I'm not sure and can't turn up anything on a web search. I also don't know if he is still alive. The Atari 800 and the Amiga were great machines in their day. If he is dead, I'll belatedly mourn his passing.
Thanks for that info. IMO, Jay Miner was a digital graphics pioneer who was way ahead of his time. He should be revered by all and remembered for his significant contribution to the microcomputer revolution.
From what I recall, in addition to great sound, as you mention, the C-64 also had sprite capabilities and 8-bit color at 320x200. The Apple used an extremely hard to code, 7-bit, 4-color system with annoying artifacts. Kudos to all the Apple II game programmers for creating such nice games with such an unwieldy graphics system.
The C-64, the VIC-20, (and the Pet before that) are the ancestors of the incomparable Amiga. The graphics chip-set of all of them was designed by the same engineeer, who I believe, is no longer among the living. If Jack Tramiel (Commodore's CEO) had given a little bit more attention to improving the C-64 (by adding good disk drives and slots), the Apple II would not have become as popular as it did. The C-64 had 10 times better graphics capabilities than the Apple II.
I am fascinated by the early history of the microcomputer. Does anybody out there still remember the Rockwell AIM-65 computer, a single board 6502 machine with a 20-character LED readout, a keyboard and a calculator roll-printer all attached to the board?
Intellectual property is a threat to our species because it forces people to compete against one another for selfish motives as opposed to bringing them together. It forces us to constantly reinvent the wheel so as to get around someone else's IP. It's an immense waste and duplication of effort. Worse, it makes us hate and resent one another. It's a symptom of our collective madness as a species.
In my opinion, the only property worthy of the name is tangible property. If you can't lock it up or build a fence around it, it does not belong to you. Once you release something like music, ideas, software, novels, etc..., you cannot prevent people from copying it and using it for their own benefit. An example is Brazil where US patented aids drugs are copied freely to save lives. Tens of millions of copies of Windows are being used free around the world. There is not a damn thing MS can do about it.
The wealth of the earth is the earth and what it contains. The only way to ensure that people get a fair share is to make sure that everybody is guaranteed possesion of a piece of the earth, an estate if you please. Then it should be up to us to increase the value of our piece as we see fit, either through cooperation with others or not. This would bring freedom and eliminate exploitation. Any other system is slavery.
The Maori should be happy that Lego is using their culture as a game theme. It's just one of the ways the best aspects of a culture are preserved. They should not adopt the bad habits of Europeans. After all, were there any IP laws among the Maori before the Europeans arrived? But then again, I do not blame (or anybody else) for trying to get an advantage in a sick and dying system. If Lego is allowed to make money using IP laws, why shouldn't they?
What if the jellyplants mutate under the harsh conditions of Mars and kill our astronauts when they get there (or adopt them as pets). There is no telling how lifeforms might evolve in an alien enviroment.
In my opinion, the real cancer is intellectual property. It's a cancer to society because it forces people to compete against one another for selfish motives as opposed to bringing them together. It forces us to constantly reinvent the wheel, so as to get around someone else's IP. It's an immense waste and duplication of effort.
In my opinion, the only property worthy of the name is tangible property. If you can't lock it up or build a fence around it, it does not belong to you. Once you release something like music, ideas, software, novels, etc..., you cannot prevent people from copying it and using it for their own benefit. An example is Brazil where patented aids drugs are copied to save lives. Tens of millions of copies of Windows are being used free around the world. There is not a damn thing MS can do about it.
The wonderful promise of GPL is not that it's a cancer for IP owners, it is the cure for the cancer that is intellectual property. Software and other ideas should be a way to increase the value of tangible property.
The wealth of the earth is the earth and what it contains. The only way to ensure that people get a fair share is to make sure that everybody is guaranteed possesion of a piece of the earth, an estate if you please. Then it should be up to us to increase the value of our piece as we see fit, either through cooperation with others or not. This would bring freedom and eliminate exploitation. Any other system is slavery.
Thanks for the quick overview of Banks, Eric. I'll read one novel and see if I like the style. It's good to hear from a fan of a particular author as opposed to someone who falls in love with a specific book. It says a lot about the overall consistency of the author's style.
Well Greg Bear's "Queen of Angels" is far more AI based than "Moving mars", unless your talking about his "Quantum logic thinker" in "Heads".
Which one was your favorite?
But real deal in how far advanced AI could change society. How about "Culture Minds" from Iain M. Banks novels.
How realistic and well written are the Banks novels? By 'well written' I mean qualities like suspense, emotional intensity, scientific plausibility, consistency, etc...
We must abandon the false promise of artificial intelligence-- the general term for technologies that aim to emulate human cognition-- and understand, embrace, and exploit the alien nature of computer thinking, says Martin.
In my opinion, James Martin is completely out to lunch as far as AI is concerned. He may know a thing or two about traditional AI but I doubt very much that he has any idea of what's going on in the field of computational neuroscience. This is where the real breakthroughs are going to come. Neuroscientists like Dr. Henry Markram and Terrence Sejnowski have already figured out that accurate timing of neural spikes is the key to biological intelligence. Great strides are being made in the area of signal timing. In other words, what they are finding out is that what's important to the brain more than anything else is the temporal order of sensory and internal signals, i.e., whether or not two or more signals are concurrent or sequential.
James Martin thinks that highly specialized computers are what will transform the world. In my opinion, they have already done so and this is an ongoing evolutionary process. I think the advent of truly intelligent learning machines are what's going to put an end to the slave labor economies of the world and take us to the stars. That's the advance I'm looking forward to.
There is no doubt in my mind that it will happen within the lifetimes of most/. readers.
...the investigators needed a warrant to view the data -- but they didn't need one to copy it."
This is the sort of nonsense that arises when too many laws are created and when people are forced to abide only by the letter of the law. What is to prevent the FBI from viewing the copied data? Will they tell the judge about it if they do? Of course not. They'll view the data and if they find something interesting, they'll obtain a warrant after the fact.
Face it, the US is the only country doing anything at all in space anymore.
Not even close. The European Space Agency puts more heavy satellites in geo-synchronous orbit than any other space agency. AFAIK, French based Ariane-Space operates the space launch center in Kourou, French Guiana in South America. They have more launches in a year than anybody else, including NASA and the Russians. The Japanese have even sent a probe to the Moon and are planning to send another to Mars using their own rocket technology. Even India is getting in on the satellite launching business.
My question is, why do Americans think the rest of the world has no technology?
I was always led to believe that the US had more freedom than any other country in the world. What are the chances that this encrypted phone technology will be allowed in the US without some backdoor for the government to snoop in?
I mean we can't let people hide things from the government, can we? What with national security, organized crime, the war on drugs and all the usual excuses! These things take precedence over freedom! Not.
I am sure that these concerns should at least be looked at and sorted out by international treaty, instead of ad hoc for the benefit of the members.
I agree. The internet transcends national boundaries. It unites the entire human species. It should be an global body, with representatives for all peoples and adequate checks and balances. The only problem is that this would make it to big and unwieldy. However there is no reason we cannot have a rotating governing body.
It maintains lots of statisitcs of its successes and failures, and over time learns which heuristics and which pre-programmed tasks have the best effect under different conditions.
In my opinion, while this is without question a form of learning, it does not come close to what I have in mind. The system apparently has a pre-programmed evaluation function that it uses to gauge success or failure. A true intelligent system should be able to come up with its own evaluation functions to suit novel phenomena. It should also create its own goals as it learns. Of course, it should not have complete freedom in doing so because there is no telling what it will do. We want it to obey us. So there must be an initial conditioning that causes it to try to please its masters. Just one man's opinion.
This is some of the best AI on the planet people.
I wish them the best and I do applaud them for their effort and ongoing success.
NASA software that thinks for itself and makes decisions without help from ground controllers will fly as the brains of triplet satellites in 2002. - NASA/JPL news release.
All software systems including the software that runs/. make decisions and "think" for themselves. The fact that this software uses its pattern recognition abilities to execute a limited number of pre-programmed decisions, does not make it intelligent IMO. It's a cool hack but to me, unless it has HAL-like capabilities, that's all it is, a cool program. If it cannot learn from its mistakes, it's not intelligent.
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Pictures of that resolution will have to be highly compressed and stored in local mass storage or downloaded from off-site servers.
1) How long will it take to see I/O bandwidth improve to where it can handle real time streaming of such huge pictures from storage.
2) Is there any hardware out there right now that can handle such high I/O bandwidths?
Imagine being an archaeologist, geologist, paleontologist or land surveyor. Now you can instantly file field reports with your colleagues at home or even archive them into one's own home or office database for safekeeping and later retrieval. It think this will be invaluable to many. The revolution continues.
Since it appears that the content industry (e.g., music and movie) is dead set on destroying our freedoms to safeguard their artificially propped, intellectual "properties", what is needed are alternative technologies. Maybe someone can come up with a do-it-yourself kit that almost anybody can use to build a FREE burner. We must counteract whatever scheme they come up with. We must not let them take away our liberties one by one, a little bit at a time, until there is none left. We must not let the powers that be turn us into drones.
Demand liberty!
Whether or not you encrypt your emails makes no difference. There are better ways for the goverment and others to spy on you. Check out this link: A new tool of Fascist control.
What is needed are governments that trust their citizens. If a government cannot trust its people, the people cannot trust its government either. But then again, mistrust is what democracy is all about, isn't it? This is the reason for the checks and balances.
If we cannot trust one another, we're fucked! The human species is suffering from collective madness. Worse, there is no cure in sight and technology agravates the problem.
The major downside to something like this is that your running system is really carved in stone. Want to change (or fix!) something in your kernel, add a device driver, etc? Oops.
I see what you mean. Instead of ROM, how about low-power, battery backed CMOS RAM? This way, the system is never really down even when the power is off. The BIOS would have code to restore things like I/O settings to last session and update date/time related stuff if necessary. Just a thought.
The Top 200s' combined sales are 18 times the size of the combined annual income of the 1.2 billion people (24 percent of the total world population) living in "severe" poverty.
We are all being exploited for the only thing we can barter with, our slave labor. Governments and corporations are the slave masters. Both capitalism and communism are systems of slave labor.
Freedom comes from owning a piece of the earth. Unless you control a piece of income property, you are a slave. Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the vast majority. They fool you into thinking you are free but you are not. You are made to compete against your fellow slaves for a living. There is nothing more pathetic than a slave who thinks he is free. It's sad.
As technology progresses, the system will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave economy when robots and advanced artificial intelligences replace all the slaves, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless? It will colapse, that's what.
And don't think for a minute this won't happen in your lifetime. The internet is the latest giant leap in human communication. Before that came mass telecommunication technologies and before that was the movable press. If history is any indication, we can expect a giant leap in technological progress and scientific knowledge. In fact, it is happening before our very eyes.
The wealth of the earth is the earth. We should all demand a system where everybody is guaranteed an estate, a piece of the pie. There is plenty for everybody. Even animals are wise enough to set territories for themselves. What we do with our piece is up to us. No more slavery, no more exploitation! Down with the slave masters!
Demand liberty! Nothing less.
Did anyone else wonder why there wasn't an add without carry instruction?
Wasn't that a deliberate design decision having to do with overall instruction speed?
and there is nothing today like the feeling one gets of stoping a running program on the 64 via the interrupt button on the Snapshot cartridge, entering the ML monitor, messing with the code, exiting the monitor, and re-entering the running program where it was stopped and watching it run with the new changes.
:-D
Now that's REAL power!
I can feel your joy.
The 128 is booted, with my text editor loaded and running before the Macintosh has even loaded it's first line of Extension and Control Panel icons. To print labels on the Mac, I have to load a relatively huge program.
Now this is one of my major complaints regarding today's desktop machines. It takes way too long to boot them and get them to speed. I wish someone would do something about that, although I doubt it can be remedied.
Yes, I still use a slide rule, except for those problems that require more than three decimal place answers. Then I use my Texas Instruments SR-40, the "upscale" version of the classic TI-30 "Electronic Slide Rule" calculator. Nothing says "MATHEMATICS" quite like a red LED display.
Dude! With a little bit of creative thinking, you could start a new techie religion. May I suggest you encase your oldest computer in a clear acrylic block, turn it into an idol of worship, and have your flower-children pray and burn candles and incense to it. Also make them wear a gold-plated 6502 chip on the front of their caps. The slide rule is their cross, of course.
Have fun. Don't ever throw away any of that stuff. In a few years it may have archaelogical importance.
I still use the 128 for all my letters, game playing, label printing and even, via the HandyScanner 64 and PageFox, desktop publishing.
Chris, you are a true believer. I admire your loyalty to the past. It was fun to write 6502 assembly code for those puppies, wasn't it?
From what I know, C-64 had two graphics modes, hires 320x200 with 1 background color and 1 foreground color (could be changed per character [40x25]) and multicolor 160x200 that had 2 extra colors, also there was 8 sprites of size 32x32 pixels (hires) or 16x32 (multicolor). With interlacing it was possible to double the vertical resolution and it was possible to mix the 16 colors to 128 colors. C-64 had 3 voice generators with 3-waveforms (square,sawtooth,sine) plus noise, it was possible due to bug in SID to create digitized sounds (4 bit).
Very interesting. I stand corrected. I take it that, by interlacing, you mean it was possible to interrupt the raster and change color registers on the fly. Thanks raynet.
The custom chip set for the Amiga was designed by Jay Miner who also did the graphics chip set for the Atari 8-bit machines. I don't think he had come over to Commodore when the C64 was being designed, but I'm not sure and can't turn up anything on a web search. I also don't know if he is still alive. The Atari 800 and the Amiga were great machines in their day. If he is dead, I'll belatedly mourn his passing.
Thanks for that info. IMO, Jay Miner was a digital graphics pioneer who was way ahead of his time. He should be revered by all and remembered for his significant contribution to the microcomputer revolution.
From what I recall, in addition to great sound, as you mention, the C-64 also had sprite capabilities and 8-bit color at 320x200. The Apple used an extremely hard to code, 7-bit, 4-color system with annoying artifacts. Kudos to all the Apple II game programmers for creating such nice games with such an unwieldy graphics system.
The C-64, the VIC-20, (and the Pet before that) are the ancestors of the incomparable Amiga. The graphics chip-set of all of them was designed by the same engineeer, who I believe, is no longer among the living. If Jack Tramiel (Commodore's CEO) had given a little bit more attention to improving the C-64 (by adding good disk drives and slots), the Apple II would not have become as popular as it did. The C-64 had 10 times better graphics capabilities than the Apple II.
I am fascinated by the early history of the microcomputer. Does anybody out there still remember the Rockwell AIM-65 computer, a single board 6502 machine with a 20-character LED readout, a keyboard and a calculator roll-printer all attached to the board?
Intellectual property is a threat to our species because it forces people to compete against one another for selfish motives as opposed to bringing them together. It forces us to constantly reinvent the wheel so as to get around someone else's IP. It's an immense waste and duplication of effort. Worse, it makes us hate and resent one another. It's a symptom of our collective madness as a species.
In my opinion, the only property worthy of the name is tangible property. If you can't lock it up or build a fence around it, it does not belong to you. Once you release something like music, ideas, software, novels, etc..., you cannot prevent people from copying it and using it for their own benefit. An example is Brazil where US patented aids drugs are copied freely to save lives. Tens of millions of copies of Windows are being used free around the world. There is not a damn thing MS can do about it.
The wealth of the earth is the earth and what it contains. The only way to ensure that people get a fair share is to make sure that everybody is guaranteed possesion of a piece of the earth, an estate if you please. Then it should be up to us to increase the value of our piece as we see fit, either through cooperation with others or not. This would bring freedom and eliminate exploitation. Any other system is slavery.
The Maori should be happy that Lego is using their culture as a game theme. It's just one of the ways the best aspects of a culture are preserved. They should not adopt the bad habits of Europeans. After all, were there any IP laws among the Maori before the Europeans arrived? But then again, I do not blame (or anybody else) for trying to get an advantage in a sick and dying system. If Lego is allowed to make money using IP laws, why shouldn't they?
What if the jellyplants mutate under the harsh conditions of Mars and kill our astronauts when they get there (or adopt them as pets). There is no telling how lifeforms might evolve in an alien enviroment.
In my opinion, the real cancer is intellectual property. It's a cancer to society because it forces people to compete against one another for selfish motives as opposed to bringing them together. It forces us to constantly reinvent the wheel, so as to get around someone else's IP. It's an immense waste and duplication of effort.
In my opinion, the only property worthy of the name is tangible property. If you can't lock it up or build a fence around it, it does not belong to you. Once you release something like music, ideas, software, novels, etc..., you cannot prevent people from copying it and using it for their own benefit. An example is Brazil where patented aids drugs are copied to save lives. Tens of millions of copies of Windows are being used free around the world. There is not a damn thing MS can do about it.
The wonderful promise of GPL is not that it's a cancer for IP owners, it is the cure for the cancer that is intellectual property. Software and other ideas should be a way to increase the value of tangible property.
The wealth of the earth is the earth and what it contains. The only way to ensure that people get a fair share is to make sure that everybody is guaranteed possesion of a piece of the earth, an estate if you please. Then it should be up to us to increase the value of our piece as we see fit, either through cooperation with others or not. This would bring freedom and eliminate exploitation. Any other system is slavery.
Thanks for the quick overview of Banks, Eric. I'll read one novel and see if I like the style. It's good to hear from a fan of a particular author as opposed to someone who falls in love with a specific book. It says a lot about the overall consistency of the author's style.
Well Greg Bear's "Queen of Angels" is far more AI based than "Moving mars", unless your talking about his "Quantum logic thinker" in "Heads".
Which one was your favorite?
But real deal in how far advanced AI could change society. How about "Culture Minds" from Iain M. Banks novels.
How realistic and well written are the Banks novels? By 'well written' I mean qualities like suspense, emotional intensity, scientific plausibility, consistency, etc...
We must abandon the false promise of artificial intelligence-- the general term for technologies that aim to emulate human cognition-- and understand, embrace, and exploit the alien nature of computer thinking, says Martin.
/. readers.
In my opinion, James Martin is completely out to lunch as far as AI is concerned. He may know a thing or two about traditional AI but I doubt very much that he has any idea of what's going on in the field of computational neuroscience. This is where the real breakthroughs are going to come. Neuroscientists like Dr. Henry Markram and Terrence Sejnowski have already figured out that accurate timing of neural spikes is the key to biological intelligence. Great strides are being made in the area of signal timing. In other words, what they are finding out is that what's important to the brain more than anything else is the temporal order of sensory and internal signals, i.e., whether or not two or more signals are concurrent or sequential.
James Martin thinks that highly specialized computers are what will transform the world. In my opinion, they have already done so and this is an ongoing evolutionary process. I think the advent of truly intelligent learning machines are what's going to put an end to the slave labor economies of the world and take us to the stars. That's the advance I'm looking forward to.
There is no doubt in my mind that it will happen within the lifetimes of most
...the investigators needed a warrant to view the data -- but they didn't need one to copy it."
This is the sort of nonsense that arises when too many laws are created and when people are forced to abide only by the letter of the law. What is to prevent the FBI from viewing the copied data? Will they tell the judge about it if they do? Of course not. They'll view the data and if they find something interesting, they'll obtain a warrant after the fact.
Face it, the US is the only country doing anything at all in space anymore.
Not even close. The European Space Agency puts more heavy satellites in geo-synchronous orbit than any other space agency. AFAIK, French based Ariane-Space operates the space launch center in Kourou, French Guiana in South America. They have more launches in a year than anybody else, including NASA and the Russians. The Japanese have even sent a probe to the Moon and are planning to send another to Mars using their own rocket technology. Even India is getting in on the satellite launching business.
My question is, why do Americans think the rest of the world has no technology?
I was always led to believe that the US had more freedom than any other country in the world. What are the chances that this encrypted phone technology will be allowed in the US without some backdoor for the government to snoop in?
I mean we can't let people hide things from the government, can we? What with national security, organized crime, the war on drugs and all the usual excuses! These things take precedence over freedom! Not.
I am sure that these concerns should at least be looked at and sorted out by international treaty, instead of ad hoc for the benefit of the members.
I agree. The internet transcends national boundaries. It unites the entire human species. It should be an global body, with representatives for all peoples and adequate checks and balances. The only problem is that this would make it to big and unwieldy. However there is no reason we cannot have a rotating governing body.
It maintains lots of statisitcs of its successes and failures, and over time learns which heuristics and which pre-programmed tasks have the best effect under different conditions.
In my opinion, while this is without question a form of learning, it does not come close to what I have in mind. The system apparently has a pre-programmed evaluation function that it uses to gauge success or failure. A true intelligent system should be able to come up with its own evaluation functions to suit novel phenomena. It should also create its own goals as it learns. Of course, it should not have complete freedom in doing so because there is no telling what it will do. We want it to obey us. So there must be an initial conditioning that causes it to try to please its masters. Just one man's opinion.
This is some of the best AI on the planet people.
I wish them the best and I do applaud them for their effort and ongoing success.
NASA software that thinks for itself and makes decisions without help from ground controllers will fly as the brains of triplet satellites in 2002. - NASA/JPL news release.
/. make decisions and "think" for themselves. The fact that this software uses its pattern recognition abilities to execute a limited number of pre-programmed decisions, does not make it intelligent IMO. It's a cool hack but to me, unless it has HAL-like capabilities, that's all it is, a cool program. If it cannot learn from its mistakes, it's not intelligent.
All software systems including the software that runs