While you can be agnostic, you SHOULD take a position on the likelihood of their being a whole fleet of ornately decorated teapots orbiting Mars, and also a position on the likelihood of their being a god who is like and can do the various kinds of things attributed to it/her/him by various religions and sects.
"Artificial has two meanings in common use. The first is "made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, typically as a copy of something natural."
That meaning does not conflict with the possibility of true intelligence being built by us (i.e. made "artificially" out of computers, networks, software).
No one really uses it to solve a real problem, in any form. Except for this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuT9uhbXZKg.
The reason Google etc are investing in AR is because they see it as the next user interface for ubiquitous computing, after the smart phone screen. An Android smart phone (and the Google AI cloud behind it) are already incredibly context-aware and offering you suggestions and ads based on where you are and what it knows you're doing.
AR done right gives the world a new hi-res google maps type overlay, with info on what you're looking at, and of course, better targeted, directionally valid, ads.
Maybe this isn't a real problem to be solved. But a person with an F-35 helmet (and attached F-35) can kill you faster. And a person augmented with AR backed by Google-ish AI is just going to be generally more informed and capable, when interacting with the world around them.
At last, they will be able to walk directly toward and into the best Asian restaurant within 3 blocks, and get the last seat before the bumbling fool desperately finger-fumbling their smartphone of yesteryear. That's the vision anyway. Oh, and of course you can do your own plumbing.
The new generation, who get pissed off when a click takes longer than half a second, can't be bothered to wait for new technology that might take 10 or more years to develop to some kind of semi-maturity. So they throw a tantrum when version 1 isn't all that and a bag of chips.
Some technology problems are just harder. I'm still optimistic about various fusion reactor companies that have been working for 15 or more years on it.
The issue is whether significant progress is being made or not. It is, so shut up and take your meds.
While I admire the spirit of your post, I must remind you that labour-based socialism, just like labour-based capitalism, is obsolete going forward.
Specifically:
"Capitalism is theft, plain and simple. Profit is a tax on the labor of others." may have been true in the past, but is not a valid critique of capitalism that employs robots and AIs rather than people, to make its profit.
Now, instead we have: "Profit is a tax on the labor of machines."
So we will hav to figure out a new non-labour-centric version of socialism to cope with that.
In the near future, the automated, AI guided economy will not need us, to help produce stuff that people need. We will just get in the way and get injured in gory robot-factory accidents.
People without a job, through no fault of their own except being average humans, will still be able to vote. So in all likelihood, democratically elected governments will tax automated production profits and will distribute wealth.
If you don't like this, I would like you to explain your position more fully. And denial of near-future automation unemployment is not a tenable position. That's just ostrich-head-in-the-sand wishful thinking.
So is your position that those who cannot productively work without phony make-work projects (say, 50% of those who want to work, in the near future), should just be weeded out and die? Leaving only a few uber-machiavellian entrepreneurs and some ultra-nerd super-intelligent techies in the human population, along with a number of massage therapists, say.
You just don't seem to be able to imagine that the next round of obsolete jobs are not going to be replaced with new jobs for humans. Because the automation and AI is starting to genuinely exceed the capabilities of many humans.
Your old economic "wisdom" is also obsolete.
It's going to be a rude awakening for you and so many others.
But don't say you weren't warned. That would be a self-serving lie.
"tele" - to or at a distance "Communication" (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.
Sounds an awful lot like a good definition of what the information communication infrastructure of the Internet does.
Internet information-communication service providers are CLEARLY telecommunications service providers under any non-crack-smoking interpretation of the common sense meaning of English language terms.
But if it comes to full removal filtering from the complete long-list of search results, that seems like a dangerous precedent.
It may be targeting universally objectionable racist stuff now, but it is a slippery slope to make MS, Google, and Facebook the moral police.
What if they start filtering out the postings of supporters of "trade enemy" countries. as being flamebait. Or start filtering out unpopular opinions phrased with strong language. This starts to sound exactly like the great totalitarian firewall of China.
A better solution might be search-user tweakable prioritization / filter settings, with "tame" default settings.
That way, a journalist researching, or a historian documenting, racist crap on the internet could find what they're looking for.
With all due respect, you suck at understanding how machine-learning AI works. People do not program in particular words/phrases to bias on.
The system automatically compares all/many aspects of the document (e.g. all words and short word sequences) against the same aspects of resumes of "hired and successful" past applicants to the company.
The system learns statistically which words/phrases/aspects of the documents correlate with "hired and successful".
Programmers don't enter into this at all. It's general learning and statistical algorithms. The software doesn't know the "meaning" of the words/phrases/text patterns in the same sense that a person does, exactly. It just learns the statistical relationships between the words/phrases/patterns and the positive-classified examples from the training dataset.
Ok, So imagine you wanted to have an automated way of incrementally increasing your workforce percentage of females. One way would be to segment the training data, that is resumes of past hires who have remained at the company for 5 years, say, into a separate female employees set (and their resumes) and male employees set.
Bounce the incoming resumes against both models, and find the good matches according to some threshold.
Now you are free to tweak the ratio of candidates coming from both automated selection streams, to add a percent or two bias toward the female stream. This implements your desired (or legally mandated) social goal over time, with only a tiny impact on "fairness" of selection.
about all the automated perfunctory rudeness out there these days?
Gmail's auto reply suggestions (buttons) are a case in point. I never use them because they all seem to be some craftily worded way of saying "thanks now f**k off".
These things all seem to be designed by and for "oh so busy" self-important tech executive types wishing to lord it over the vast unwashed masses.
"Call screen" kind of fits right in. Wasn't "please leave a message" quite rude enough?
Then put in place 10 trucks, each with a medieval trebuchet designed to fling a heavy-gauge metal cable over each of the high-voltage transmission lines to the city. to short them out.
A badass known to have a devastating karate chop walks into a bar in Moscow... and is suddenly staring down the barrels of 15 guns. Oops.
More seriously, the biggest vulnerability of power stations to cyberattack comes from operational laziness on the part of the power utility. Not implementing IT patches and IT security best practices in general. Not updating power switching relays to have the latest more secured firmware and communication protocols, etc etc.
Being warned in advance that you have a serious threat from a well resourced nation-state actor allows you to tighten up cybersecurity and likely prevent such an attack. No, this kind of information leak, if true, reflects a new level of dumbassery.
The art was not destroyed. It simply completed its transition to its final intended state. This work of art was clearly a process (including a performance), not a thing.
A brilliant artistic commentary on our and the universe's entropic fate, and our inability to stop it no matter how much money we throw at it. Or a cheap prank but clearly in the general style of the prank artist Banksy. whatever. Either is a legitimate interpretation of this artwork.
If you don't get this, you are among those stuffed shirts being pranked by this work.
Greenhouse gases cause a reduction in energy radiation to space, thus effectively adding heat energy over time to the system, which is measurable as atmospheric and ocean temperature increase over time. Is that literal and pedantic enough for you?
To software reliability (and good design) that has taken decades to dig out of.
The chip architecture and machine language was overcomplicated (non orthogonal instruction set, segmented memory architecture) and the OS was by far the least elegant available at the time, with bizarre irregular commands and options, and horrible limitations making programming much harder than it ought to have been, due to the chip and memory architecture. There were much better alternatives, from a technical perspective, at a similar low price point, like Z80, M68000, CPM, AmigaOS, etc. And far far technically superior things like Sun/RISC/Solaris were soon available, albeit much too pricey for common use.
It's one of my lesser disappointments in humanity that Wintel stuff managed to dominate despite its inner hideousness.
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While you can be agnostic, you SHOULD take a position on the likelihood of their being a whole fleet of ornately decorated teapots orbiting Mars, and also a position on the likelihood of their being a god who is like and can do the various kinds of things attributed to it/her/him by various religions and sects.
"Artificial has two meanings in common use.
The first is "made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, typically as a copy of something natural."
That meaning does not conflict with the possibility of true intelligence being built by us (i.e. made "artificially" out of computers, networks, software).
stoopid hoomans!
No one really uses it to solve a real problem, in any form. Except for this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuT9uhbXZKg.
The reason Google etc are investing in AR is because they see it as the next user interface for ubiquitous computing, after the smart phone screen.
An Android smart phone (and the Google AI cloud behind it) are already incredibly context-aware and offering you suggestions and ads based on where you are and what it knows you're doing.
AR done right gives the world a new hi-res google maps type overlay, with info on what you're looking at, and of course, better targeted, directionally valid, ads.
Maybe this isn't a real problem to be solved. But a person with an F-35 helmet (and attached F-35) can kill you faster. And a person augmented with AR backed by Google-ish AI is just going to be generally more informed and capable, when interacting with the world around them.
At last, they will be able to walk directly toward and into the best Asian restaurant within 3 blocks, and get the last seat before the bumbling fool desperately finger-fumbling their smartphone of yesteryear. That's the vision anyway. Oh, and of course you can do your own plumbing.
The new generation, who get pissed off when a click takes longer than half a second, can't be bothered to wait for new technology that might take 10 or more years to develop to some kind of semi-maturity. So they throw a tantrum when version 1 isn't all that and a bag of chips.
Some technology problems are just harder. I'm still optimistic about various fusion reactor companies that have been working for 15 or more years on it.
The issue is whether significant progress is being made or not. It is, so shut up and take your meds.
While I admire the spirit of your post, I must remind you that labour-based socialism, just like labour-based capitalism, is obsolete going forward.
Specifically:
"Capitalism is theft, plain and simple. Profit is a tax on the labor of others." may have been true in the past, but is not a valid critique of capitalism that employs robots and AIs rather than people, to make its profit.
Now, instead we have: "Profit is a tax on the labor of machines."
So we will hav to figure out a new non-labour-centric version of socialism to cope with that.
Ok here's the thing.
In the near future, the automated, AI guided economy will not need us, to help produce stuff that people need.
We will just get in the way and get injured in gory robot-factory accidents.
People without a job, through no fault of their own except being average humans, will still be able to vote.
So in all likelihood, democratically elected governments will tax automated production profits and will distribute wealth.
If you don't like this, I would like you to explain your position more fully. And denial of near-future automation unemployment is not a tenable position. That's just ostrich-head-in-the-sand wishful thinking.
So is your position that those who cannot productively work without phony make-work projects (say, 50% of those who want to work, in the near future), should just be weeded out and die? Leaving only a few uber-machiavellian entrepreneurs and some ultra-nerd super-intelligent techies in the human population, along with a number of massage therapists, say.
Or what is your alternative to that?
You just don't seem to be able to imagine that the next round of obsolete jobs are not going to be replaced with new jobs for humans. Because the automation and AI is starting to genuinely exceed the capabilities of many humans.
Your old economic "wisdom" is also obsolete.
It's going to be a rude awakening for you and so many others.
But don't say you weren't warned. That would be a self-serving lie.
If the court doesn't have that right, then, interestingly, the constitution permits the State of California to regulate as it sees fit.
I suppose Ajit Pai is angling for a Supreme Court of the US decision on this one, now that that court has been stacked.
"tele" - to or at a distance
"Communication" (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.
Sounds an awful lot like a good definition of what the information communication infrastructure of the Internet does.
Internet information-communication service providers are CLEARLY telecommunications service providers under any non-crack-smoking interpretation of the common sense meaning of English language terms.
Words like "Eastasia", "Eurasia" for example? or only when combined with the word "war"?
I can see "deprioritize" yes.
But if it comes to full removal filtering from the complete long-list of search results, that seems like a dangerous precedent.
It may be targeting universally objectionable racist stuff now, but it is a slippery slope to make MS, Google, and Facebook the moral police.
What if they start filtering out the postings of supporters of "trade enemy" countries. as being flamebait. Or start filtering out unpopular opinions phrased with strong language. This starts to sound exactly like the great totalitarian firewall of China.
A better solution might be search-user tweakable prioritization / filter settings, with "tame" default settings.
That way, a journalist researching, or a historian documenting, racist crap on the internet could find what they're looking for.
With all due respect, you suck at understanding how machine-learning AI works.
People do not program in particular words/phrases to bias on.
The system automatically compares all/many aspects of the document (e.g. all words and short word sequences) against the same aspects of resumes of "hired and successful" past applicants to the company.
The system learns statistically which words/phrases/aspects of the documents correlate with "hired and successful".
Programmers don't enter into this at all. It's general learning and statistical algorithms.
The software doesn't know the "meaning" of the words/phrases/text patterns in the same sense that a person does, exactly. It just learns the statistical relationships between the words/phrases/patterns and the positive-classified examples from the training dataset.
Ok, So imagine you wanted to have an automated way of incrementally increasing your workforce percentage of females. One way would be to segment the training data, that is resumes of past hires who have remained at the company for 5 years, say, into a separate female employees set (and their resumes) and male employees set.
Bounce the incoming resumes against both models, and find the good matches according to some threshold.
Now you are free to tweak the ratio of candidates coming from both automated selection streams, to add a percent or two bias toward the female stream. This implements your desired (or legally mandated) social goal over time, with only a tiny impact on "fairness" of selection.
about all the automated perfunctory rudeness out there these days?
Gmail's auto reply suggestions (buttons) are a case in point. I never use them because they all seem to be some craftily worded way of saying "thanks now f**k off".
These things all seem to be designed by and for "oh so busy" self-important tech executive types wishing to lord it over the vast unwashed masses.
"Call screen" kind of fits right in. Wasn't "please leave a message" quite rude enough?
Uber, in short, is a dating service (between drivers and riders).
Oh, you didn't hear that it's all stolen American computer designs? Assembled by China for good measure.
for psychological effect,
use a drone-swarm to carry each cable and drop it across the 3 phases of the power transmission line.
Then put in place 10 trucks, each with a medieval trebuchet designed to fling a heavy-gauge metal cable over each of the high-voltage transmission lines to the city. to short them out.
Never underestimate the power of an insider with a USB stick.
A badass known to have a devastating karate chop walks into a bar in Moscow...
and is suddenly staring down the barrels of 15 guns. Oops.
More seriously, the biggest vulnerability of power stations to cyberattack comes from operational laziness on the part of the power utility. Not implementing IT patches and IT security best practices in general. Not updating power switching relays to have the latest more secured firmware and communication protocols, etc etc.
Being warned in advance that you have a serious threat from a well resourced nation-state actor allows you to tighten up cybersecurity and likely prevent such an attack. No, this kind of information leak, if true, reflects a new level of dumbassery.
The art was not destroyed.
It simply completed its transition to its final intended state.
This work of art was clearly a process (including a performance), not a thing.
A brilliant artistic commentary on our and the universe's entropic fate, and our inability to stop it no matter how much money we throw at it.
Or a cheap prank but clearly in the general style of the prank artist Banksy. whatever.
Either is a legitimate interpretation of this artwork.
If you don't get this, you are among those stuffed shirts being pranked by this work.
Greenhouse gases cause a reduction in energy radiation to space, thus effectively adding heat energy over time to the system, which is measurable as atmospheric and ocean temperature increase over time. Is that literal and pedantic enough for you?
Windpower does not add heat to the atmosphere of Earth, it just mixes around where it's hot and where it's cold.
Greenhouse gases add heat energy (and thus average temperature) to the Earth's global atmosphere.
These are completely different things.
Attempting to conflate them is pro-fossil-fuel FUD.
To software reliability (and good design) that has taken decades to dig out of.
The chip architecture and machine language was overcomplicated (non orthogonal instruction set, segmented memory architecture) and the OS was by far the least elegant available at the time, with bizarre irregular commands and options, and horrible limitations making programming much harder than it ought to have been, due to the chip and memory architecture.
There were much better alternatives, from a technical perspective, at a similar low price point, like Z80, M68000, CPM, AmigaOS, etc.
And far far technically superior things like Sun/RISC/Solaris were soon available, albeit much too pricey for common use.
It's one of my lesser disappointments in humanity that Wintel stuff managed to dominate despite its inner hideousness.