And what did it take to change the whole Future of Computing?
One Guy, who attended the PARC meetings. ( I was at a few, many years later.)
This one guy would show off his home made "Computer" with these cheap chips that he would make do things that the chip makers didn't think was possible. And he made it so inexpensive that everyone would eventually have it.
The Innovation and Synergy was there in those people and the enthusiasm of building these things for fun is really what drives the future. Yes it took someone else with a business sense to bring it to the market and not get ripped off or sucked into a larger company.
The innovation is still here, if you have the passion to look beyond the normal. The cycle will continue with these new companies replacing the larger ones now in new markets.
Steve 'Woz' is the guy and there should be a statue of him.
When you play a video game, doesn't need to be a violent one, your brain goes into a state of hyper-arousal. Some games are more intense then others, depends on how long you have been doing it, your age, and if its a new game. But right after you finish playing, for example GTA, your driving around with a car and not really obeying street laws. Right when you get done, don't go out and drive a real car, take a few minutes to get back to reality.
Economically the moon won't make much money, maybe with space tourism. But Mars, there's lots of money to be made there and much more to explore and see. The Moon is just a Harsh Mistress.
There is no intelligence in there, there is no other system that is performing checks with other regions like the brain does. The brain goes through multiple stages of applying reasoning and learning to try to understand the scene its looking at. Everything from the eyes to the pre-frontal cortex that helps with the reasoning in a loop that will adjust the senses or bring in new ones, like smell or sound to try to distinguish the features.
Our minds learn on the fly or make a best guess estimate, which is where human error comes in and we don't always get it right or can't make the decision in the amount of time available.
These neural network systems that have been trained on all these images are basically just complicated classifier systems with millions of variables. Don't get me wrong, they are great and will only get better. But there needs to be a reasoning and learning system behind it, otherwise it will just keep classifying stuff into only what it knows or has been trained on. It's been this way for 20 years, the only difference now is the speed of the processing and the amount of data available, and some newer algorithms.
In places like Cuba, where you don't have internet all over the place, then it works to have the packets routed through people cell phones or other devices to go out to all. But don't confuse the base internet pipes with those companies that sit on top of it. The Base Internet is fine.
It started out with the Chiefs and Kings that controlled the people. Then the people got fed up with that. Then the people installed governments with politicians to have all the power. Then the people got fed up with that. Then the Banks and financial institutions wanted all the power, so they took that away from the government. Then the people got fed up with that. Then the Technology companies took all the power away from the banks and the governments. And that is where we are today and where we will be for awhile, because that is where the power lies. We are dependent on our technology and society can't function without it.
The next step will be for the technology to take the power away from the people. The people won't like it, but they don't have a choice in the matter.
In trying to use any Apple Products and apps in the future, I'm sure Apple will have no problem making sure all your iPhones, transactions and customers work just fine...
The truth is that your not going to know. The current services will stay the same or get degraded and new services will be added that have faster speeds, its just going to get a lot more confusing as that is usually the business model. Confuse them so much that they will pick the most expensive plan, because it " lets you to do more, and your FB/Google/Youtube/Etc.. feeds will be that much better".
Once one company starts to do it, then they will all do it. But only after everyone forgot about all this in 6 months, when some new bigger news item is there.
While I agree that if kids are using it to socialize (FB) or message notes or just play games during the school hour, then they should not be doing that, they should be learning. Just as in work, people should be working. If kids are learning the bad habit now, just wait till they get into a work environment.
On the other hand, 1- We should use technology in a good way to teach and learn, just throwing a computer in the classroom is not the way to go. 2 - Kids today are not the kids of pass days, their attention span is shorter, there is just too much media out there, and its a connected world and everyone wants to be in on it all the time. We should try to use that in a positive way, or adjust how classes are thought. 3 - Those that want to learn will learn and those that want to click will be in a click, has always been that way. You can force a kid to learn something they are not interested in learning. Using technology can help make it a more excited learning environment.
When all these companies talk about AI, what they really mean is a way to provide back-end servers, neural net chips, GPUS and such so that they can charge for the deep learning systems that everyone wants to use to process the data to find those little nuggets. They are not working on building general AI systems or even working on how to architecture one. They want to make money and the money is in the service. Just like Amazon, Google and IBM. Facebook uses AI and provide some services. But the future where you need fast real-time detection of things that your automated cars and planes will be doing, where it sends all that to a massive computer to do the processing and sends the results back is what they are talking about (at least in these last few and next 5 years). The AI systems, based on neural nets as still so simple compared to what humans can do, it will be a little while before real general AI gets around. And the Robotic technology and hardware to house it is so far behind the software at this point. It will all come, bio-robotics, Bio-AI, might be here first. You can't stop technology and you won't stop developing AI systems, we learn more and more each month, but there are still a lot of unsolved hard AI problems and formalizing all that is even harder.
Slashdot Mirror
Rocket Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Live stream of the Tesla car in space.
Someday there will be an X-prize to go get it and bring it back.
His Geek Cred just went up over the limit...
What an amazing historical day...
Congrats to all those involved.
Wish I was there to see it.
I'm glad he is making it fun, that is what science and engineering should be.
I, for one, am glad he is helping out with our Alien Problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Flam...
And what did it take to change the whole Future of Computing?
One Guy, who attended the PARC meetings. ( I was at a few, many years later.)
This one guy would show off his home made "Computer" with these cheap chips that he would make do things that the chip makers didn't think was possible.
And he made it so inexpensive that everyone would eventually have it.
The Innovation and Synergy was there in those people and the enthusiasm of building these things for fun is really what drives the future.
Yes it took someone else with a business sense to bring it to the market and not get ripped off or sucked into a larger company.
The innovation is still here, if you have the passion to look beyond the normal.
The cycle will continue with these new companies replacing the larger ones now in new markets.
Steve 'Woz' is the guy and there should be a statue of him.
Home, Open the Pod Bay Doors!
When you play a video game, doesn't need to be a violent one, your brain goes into a state of hyper-arousal. Some games are more intense then others, depends on how long you have been doing it, your age, and if its a new game.
But right after you finish playing, for example GTA, your driving around with a car and not really obeying street laws.
Right when you get done, don't go out and drive a real car, take a few minutes to get back to reality.
Ok, Time to start building the Ark Fleet Ship B...
Economically the moon won't make much money, maybe with space tourism.
But Mars, there's lots of money to be made there and much more to explore and see.
The Moon is just a Harsh Mistress.
They must have bought and iPhone X.
When I lay the world map down on the table it's flat, how can you argue with that?
There is no intelligence in there, there is no other system that is performing checks with other regions like the brain does.
The brain goes through multiple stages of applying reasoning and learning to try to understand the scene its looking at. Everything from the eyes to the pre-frontal cortex that helps with the reasoning in a loop that will adjust the senses or bring in new ones, like smell or sound to try to distinguish the features.
Our minds learn on the fly or make a best guess estimate, which is where human error comes in and we don't always get it right or can't make the decision in the amount of time available.
These neural network systems that have been trained on all these images are basically just complicated classifier systems with millions of variables. Don't get me wrong, they are great and will only get better. But there needs to be a reasoning and learning system behind it, otherwise it will just keep classifying stuff into only what it knows or has been trained on.
It's been this way for 20 years, the only difference now is the speed of the processing and the amount of data available, and some newer algorithms.
They get to the other side of course.
In places like Cuba, where you don't have internet all over the place, then it works to have the packets routed through people cell phones or other devices to go out to all.
But don't confuse the base internet pipes with those companies that sit on top of it. The Base Internet is fine.
I think that the Lawyers work faster than the Chips these days...
I thought someone by now would have posted a joke about only reaching the half-way point.
It started out with the Chiefs and Kings that controlled the people.
Then the people got fed up with that.
Then the people installed governments with politicians to have all the power.
Then the people got fed up with that.
Then the Banks and financial institutions wanted all the power, so they took that away from the government.
Then the people got fed up with that.
Then the Technology companies took all the power away from the banks and the governments.
And that is where we are today and where we will be for awhile, because that is where the power lies.
We are dependent on our technology and society can't function without it.
The next step will be for the technology to take the power away from the people.
The people won't like it, but they don't have a choice in the matter.
He definitely didn't have the right attitude for this.
These kinds of errors are not just related to Russia.
Mars Climate Orbiter probe lost due to Math error:
English to Metric math conversion error
https://edition.cnn.com/TECH/s...
https://mars.nasa.gov/msp98/ne...
http://articles.latimes.com/19...
ExoMars Schiaparelli lander crashed due to failure to recognize the proper height.
http://spaceflight101.com/exom...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/b...
In trying to use any Apple Products and apps in the future, I'm sure Apple will have no problem making sure all your iPhones, transactions and customers work just fine...
The truth is that your not going to know.
The current services will stay the same or get degraded and new services will be added that have faster speeds, its just going to get a lot more confusing as that is usually the business model. Confuse them so much that they will pick the most expensive plan, because it " lets you to do more, and your FB/Google/Youtube/Etc.. feeds will be that much better".
Once one company starts to do it, then they will all do it. But only after everyone forgot about all this in 6 months, when some new bigger news item is there.
While I agree that if kids are using it to socialize (FB) or message notes or just play games during the school hour, then they should not be doing that, they should be learning. Just as in work, people should be working. If kids are learning the bad habit now, just wait till they get into a work environment.
On the other hand,
1- We should use technology in a good way to teach and learn, just throwing a computer in the classroom is not the way to go.
2 - Kids today are not the kids of pass days, their attention span is shorter, there is just too much media out there, and its a connected world and everyone wants to be in on it all the time. We should try to use that in a positive way, or adjust how classes are thought.
3 - Those that want to learn will learn and those that want to click will be in a click, has always been that way. You can force a kid to learn something they are not interested in learning. Using technology can help make it a more excited learning environment.
Next they will be telling us TV is bad for society .....
let you... ... Post on Slashdot?
When all these companies talk about AI, what they really mean is a way to provide back-end servers, neural net chips, GPUS and such so that they can charge for the deep learning systems that everyone wants to use to process the data to find those little nuggets. They are not working on building general AI systems or even working on how to architecture one. They want to make money and the money is in the service. Just like Amazon, Google and IBM. Facebook uses AI and provide some services. But the future where you need fast real-time detection of things that your automated cars and planes will be doing, where it sends all that to a massive computer to do the processing and sends the results back is what they are talking about (at least in these last few and next 5 years).
The AI systems, based on neural nets as still so simple compared to what humans can do, it will be a little while before real general AI gets around. And the Robotic technology and hardware to house it is so far behind the software at this point.
It will all come, bio-robotics, Bio-AI, might be here first.
You can't stop technology and you won't stop developing AI systems, we learn more and more each month, but there are still a lot of unsolved hard AI problems and formalizing all that is even harder.