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  1. Even if that was accurate, why would anyone pay $1000+ for a $390 phone? Idiotic. And yes I DO understand how much it costs to develop software. You are an idiot if you believe any of that is worth $600 per device. But I guess idiots abound and that is why people pay $1000+ for phones.

  2. I never thought anyone would buy a $1000 phone that was built for $140. That is probably why I am not in sales.

  3. The difference is that the blink renderer is open source, where IE6 wasn't. The problem with IE6 monoculture was that Microsoft had 100% control over it. Monocultures aren't bad, but closed source is.

  4. Re:A few questions popped into my head... on Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn. I learn so much on slashdot. Water really ISN'T blue? I just drank a glass of blue water this morning. I wonder what was in it?

  5. Re:A few questions popped into my head... on Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Genius.

  6. Re:A few questions popped into my head... on Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, SuperKendall. Water is blue.

  7. A NN is nothing like a brain. Just repeat after me: A NN is nothing like a brain. So why call it a NN? Marketing hype. At least in the 1970s they realized it wasn't anything like a brain, but now the Millenials have latched onto it. Now we have to hear about every "AI breakthrough" which is some machine has been taught to play Chess (or Go, or checkers, or recognizes cat videos). Great, let us know when it shows anything even vaguely intelligent.

  8. Re:how many false positives? on Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    100%. But it only took 10 minutes and $700. Mission accomplished.

  9. Go and Chess have very simple rulesets. They can be learned in 15 minutes. And computers are good at running programs with strict rulesets. Amazing stuff.

  10. Re: Correct me, but there is no 'self-learning' on DeepMind Produces a General-Purpose Game-Playing System, Capable of Mastering Games Like Chess and Go Without Human Help (ieee.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have no idea who/what Demi's Hassabis is. What "major limitations"? It isn't ANYTHING like a brain at all. That is like saying a pencil has "major limitations" in comparison to an airplane. A NN is just a training system. Completely idiotic. Yet every AI nutters goes breathless with the news that some system has figured out how to play Go, Chess or (sometimes) recognize sheep in a field.

  11. Re: Correct me, but there is no 'self-learning' on DeepMind Produces a General-Purpose Game-Playing System, Capable of Mastering Games Like Chess and Go Without Human Help (ieee.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They sure do. Nature will publish whatever sells. Glad you drank the Kool Aid though. I am sure Deepmind will cure cancer, right after it learns how to play Go (and Chess).

  12. That is what they are hoping suckers will believe: "seems to me if it does X and Y it can do Z". IBM learned the hard way with Watson it doesn't work that way in the real world, only in Marketing fantasy land.

  13. Re: Correct me, but there is no 'self-learning' on DeepMind Produces a General-Purpose Game-Playing System, Capable of Mastering Games Like Chess and Go Without Human Help (ieee.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    BS. I know how NN actually work. It works nothing like neurons. It is just hype. It isn't like any brain (even yours).

  14. Re:Mind-bending on Intel Optimistic About Its Next-Gen 7nm Process Technology (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Metal-Air transistors have been around for several years and never materialized into reality. More hype.

  15. No. It was built to play Chess and Go. Have you noticed that all these "AI systems" play Chess and Go? Very odd.

  16. You have read a lot of marketing materials desperate to generate interest in another IPO. Neural Networks have literally been around since the 1960s and have very limited uses.

  17. Sure they did. AlphaZero was coded just like any other computer. You AI nutters thinks neural networks are some sort of magic. It isn't. NN have been around for many decades, and it is a dead end. A NN is nothing like the human brain.

  18. "It will not take long for AI to branch out of simple game playing"

    Uh huh. When is this going to happen? Computers are good at playing games. We get it. Apparently the "AI researchers" aren't able to figure out any other applications.

  19. So lets ask a question: if DeepMind is useful WHY ARE THEY USING IT TO PLAY GO AND CHESS? Every "AI" system has this amazing power: the ability to play games. Not every game of course: Chess and Go. So friggin stupid. Yeah we get it, computers are good at playing Chess and Go. Amazing stuff.

  20. "AINow Institute" is a "thinktank" which will write expensive treatises and provide consulting to these new governmental entities.

  21. Re:Google Translate didn't learn anything on Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Google (and the entire industry) is desperately trying to convince people that AI is real and that computers are "learning".

  22. Re:Trans late on Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    We won the war so we don't need to read your link.

  23. Re:Gender on Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in MY day, there were only 12.

  24. Re:WTF???? on China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    That is a pretty dumb comment, even for you. They are shipping US origin products to Iran. There is a US sanction against Iran. Hope you understand, but I doubt you will.

  25. Re:Battery tech making great progress. on Tesla's Giant Battery In Australia Saved $40 Million During Its First Year, Report Says (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    Wow! 40% off a tunnel! Amazing.