If I have a file on my computer, say an MP3 of a hit song of my favorite band, and I copy it to another computer or device, I don't think of it as an original and copy cause they're both identical.
Then you're nuts. Do you believe that if one is deleted, the other just disappears? If you use a sound editor to boost the bass on one, do you believe that the other copy's sound will change, too?
we are now at the spot where we are going to expect vehicles to decide, either hit that person, or swerve or brake and injure the driver or someone else
No need to make a person-oriented decision. If the car detects an obstacle, whether a child, an adult , a dog or a traffic cone, the car just has to solve one problem: is there a free lane that I can swerve into safely? If so, do it. If not, hit the brakes as fast and as hard as it can.
When Amazon was young, they had the best returns policy around
Well, their current policy is "if you aren't satisfied, click here".
Then a postage-paid return label appears instantaneously. It's hard to image what would be easier than that.
For rural residents like me, Amazon is a godsend.
For many items, especially tech, it's Amazon or nothing, and there are tens of millions of people in the same boat.
Just because they are many violent humans with genocidal impulses, it does not mean that AIs will magically acquire such tendencies, unless we explicitly tune them to do so.
Which "we" will, given that the "we"'s in charge generally have medals on their chests and stars on their epaulets.
If the "electric universe"
theories (although "idle speculations" might be a better term) had any significant evidence to support them,
there would be more interest in it. Certainly the quoted studies are entirely irrelevant to the claims of the "electric universe" loonies.
Oh, and just to be clear, "Fluctuating Matter" is a sock-puppet for the notorious crackpot "Chris Reeves", right?
Yes, Google Earth VR. It turns a city into a LegoLand-like model that you can walk around in like a giant. Unfortunately you can't squash people and cars like bugs or leave giant footprints behind.
You don't need to train the AI to recognize every object, but identify what is an object even if the machine learning can't recognize what that object is
How can a ML system recognize "object" as an abstract concept? Abstraction is a higher-order brain function that is far above mechanical pattern recognition, and that is all a neural network is.
Slashdot Mirror
So I wake up and see red, but remember seeing blue, and think I have been moved.
That's because you have.
Or at least, your brain/memories has, and that's all that matters.
If I have a file on my computer, say an MP3 of a hit song of my favorite band,
and I copy it to another computer or device, I don't think of it as an original and copy cause they're both identical.
Then you're nuts.
Do you believe that if one is deleted, the other just disappears?
If you use a sound editor to boost the bass on one, do you believe that the other copy's sound will change, too?
to create a newline in SlashDot.
we are now at the spot where we are going to expect vehicles to decide,
either hit that person, or swerve or brake and injure the driver or someone else
No need to make a person-oriented decision.
If the car detects an obstacle, whether a child, an adult , a dog or a traffic cone,
the car just has to solve one problem: is there a free lane that I can swerve into safely?
If so, do it.
If not, hit the brakes as fast and as hard as it can.
Hmmm..not much humor here today I guess.
FTFY.
When Amazon was young, they had the best returns policy around
Well, their current policy is "if you aren't satisfied, click here".
Then a postage-paid return label appears instantaneously.
It's hard to image what would be easier than that.
For rural residents like me, Amazon is a godsend.
For many items, especially tech, it's Amazon or nothing, and there are tens of millions of people in the same boat.
Or a North Korean missile badly off course.
Wow!
A post by someone who actually knows what he or she is talking about.
Just because they are many violent humans with genocidal impulses, it does not mean that AIs
will magically acquire such tendencies, unless we explicitly tune them to do so.
Which "we" will, given that the "we"'s in charge generally have medals on their chests and stars on their epaulets.
And we're supposed to trust this same government to protect us from AI?
Yes.
We can trust the government to protect us from any AI that could potentially cut into their profits.
Use
to force a new line.
democratic republic (not a democracy - they found that repugnant)
Back that up with actual quotes from the "Founding Fathers".
Or admit that you can't, because it's bullshit.
A democratic republic is a democracy, you idiot.
IKEA here I come!
It looks even cooler if you click the "Satellite" button, as it shows the night-time parts of the world lit up.
Yes, it very much has the feeling of a time capsule -- as if nothing credible at all has occurred in the intervening years!
FTFY.
If the "electric universe" theories (although "idle speculations" might be a better term) had any
significant evidence to support them, there would be more interest in it.
Certainly the quoted studies are entirely irrelevant to the claims of the "electric universe" loonies.
Oh, and just to be clear, "Fluctuating Matter" is a sock-puppet for the notorious crackpot "Chris Reeves", right?
Put offenders, who dare to WALK somewhere, into for-profit prisions
If you try to drive, I'll tax the street. If you try to walk, I'll tax your feet.
just tie up self driving cars in decades of lawsuits and ever increasing regulatory requirements
That's pretty much inevitable.
As soon as the first child gets injured in or by a robocar, the class-action lawyers are bound to come out in droves.
Slashdot is broken.
My Oclulus Rift is broken.
What the hell do I do now?
I guess I'll have to go play with my kids or talk to my wife.
If things get any worse I might end up going outside.
I would say Subnautica [steampowered.com] is pretty close to a "must play" killer-app for VR.
Agreed.
is there actually a killer app for it yet?
Yes, Google Earth VR.
It turns a city into a LegoLand-like model that you can walk around in like a giant.
Unfortunately you can't squash people and cars like bugs or leave giant footprints behind.
Argument from majority is a form of argument from authority. It's fallacious.
No, it's not an argument at all.
It is a statement of a personal point of view. One that is just as good (or bad) as yours.
You don't need to train the AI to recognize every object, but identify what is an object even if the machine learning can't recognize what that object is
How can a ML system recognize "object" as an abstract concept?
Abstraction is a higher-order brain function that is far above mechanical pattern recognition, and that is all a neural network is.
Neural nets do actually work in the way the neurons work
I don't see how that conclusion is justified, given that we are just scratching the surface in understanding how living neurons work.