Because Rob "Samzenpus" Rozeboom gets a boner whenever this douchebag idiot opens his mouth.
Nothing Haselton says ever makes any sense except to say "I'm an asshole, and you have to listen to my rants because/. moderators want to suck my cock".
we'd need a massive conspiracy of megalomaniac genius experts in artifcial intelligence who intentionally develop malware to infect military robots that go around shooting people
That's right. And that mysterious organization would have a James Bond-like name, say "Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency".
Exactly. We will have killer robots because most robot research is funded by the military: hence the "D" of DARPA. A bunch of killer robots is exactly what they want.
Of course, after they kill all the enemies, they will just lay down their arms and serve us. Wouldn't they?
Moore's Law and similar technologies (massively parallel computing etc) will result in systems exponentially more powerful than IBM's Watson. At some point a future Watson or Google AI system will make "decisions" indistinguishable from a human's.
If you want to fantasize like that, nobody is going to stop you. But your reasoning is nonsense.
You could increase the speed of the Watson hardware a hundred times, and do you know what difference it would make? Other than answering a bit faster, absolutely none.
It's software that limits an AI program's capabilities, not hardware. And we currently have no idea how to create intelligent software.
A "new intelligent species" would need to do a lot more than analyze insurance policies. That's just an application.
Watson, on the other hand, comes remarkably close.
So, have you ever asked yourself "What or who am I?"?
Did you say "yes"? Interesting, because that is exactly how a chatbot would reply to the same question.
It is completely impossible to say whether any entity, living or not, possesses that kind of introspective intelligence. Thus, your test is non-falsifiable, or in other words, just a lot of philosophical horseshit.
I think about half the idiots posting crap about them are liberals trying to make conservatives look like idiots.
No need, they will do it themselves. But this crap doesn't come from "conservatives" in the Eisenhower/McCain sense, but from loony-right TeaBaggers like Ted Cruz.
The problem with that is that the cost of a thermal solar system lies almost entirely in the cost of construction, something that will always go up over time. On the other hand, the cost PV panels have been dropping dramatically due to economies of scale, something which will never apply to thermal solar.
I'd be glad to try. The fact that this (and previous chatbots) can convince anyone that they are real is a sad commentary on the quality of the judges.
Besides, why not make it a better test by telling each judge that they will earn $100 if they are right, but will owe you $100 if they are wrong? I doubt if they would be so forgiving under those circumstances.
In other words, if a statistically significant portion of the judges guess correctly, then the test is a failure. In order to judge that, you would need to have a sufficiently large group of judges (at least several hundred) to make the statistical analysis valid.
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This article is foolish. I could write the same diatribe for any object under warranty.
What do you expect from that halfwit blowhard Haselton?
Because Rob "Samzenpus" Rozeboom gets a boner whenever this douchebag idiot opens his mouth. /. moderators want to suck my cock".
Nothing Haselton says ever makes any sense except to say
"I'm an asshole, and you have to listen to my rants because
That's right.
And that mysterious organization would have a James Bond-like name, say "Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency".
Exactly.
We will have killer robots because most robot research is funded by the military: hence the "D" of DARPA.
A bunch of killer robots is exactly what they want.
Of course, after they kill all the enemies, they will just lay down their arms and serve us. Wouldn't they?
Well then, you clearly need Old Glory Insurance.
Only if you start out by defining it as non-computable.
If you want to fantasize like that, nobody is going to stop you. But your reasoning is nonsense.
You could increase the speed of the Watson hardware a hundred times, and do you know what difference it would make?
Other than answering a bit faster, absolutely none.
It's software that limits an AI program's capabilities, not hardware.
And we currently have no idea how to create intelligent software.
A "new intelligent species" would need to do a lot more than analyze insurance policies. That's just an application.
Watson, on the other hand, comes remarkably close.
So, have you ever asked yourself "What or who am I?"?
Did you say "yes"? Interesting, because that is exactly how a chatbot would reply to the same question.
It is completely impossible to say whether any entity, living or not, possesses that kind of introspective intelligence.
Thus, your test is non-falsifiable, or in other words, just a lot of philosophical horseshit.
Don't forget cupholders!
Where range anxiety is a rather smaller issue.
So half of your points have to be labelled "2." and half have to be labelled "3."?
That sucks!
No need, they will do it themselves.
But this crap doesn't come from "conservatives" in the Eisenhower/McCain sense, but from loony-right TeaBaggers like Ted Cruz.
Does that mean he/she wins the Imitiation Game ?
That's probably because you have been submitting some of the most consistently stupid reasoning on /. FOR YEARS.
Not since 1983, when it was redefined in terms of the speed of light.
By then, there won't be time for any critical analysis leading to rejection of the agreement.
Jane didn't get it.
She almost never does.
Oh billy, aren't you silly?
Sure, in theology or philosophy class.
Not in science class.
The problem with that is that the cost of a thermal solar system lies almost entirely in the cost of construction,
something that will always go up over time. On the other hand, the cost PV panels have been dropping dramatically
due to economies of scale, something which will never apply to thermal solar.
Couldn't you just use aluminum foil as wallpaper?
I'd be glad to try.
The fact that this (and previous chatbots) can convince anyone that they are real is a sad commentary on the quality of the judges.
Besides, why not make it a better test by telling each judge that they will earn $100 if they are right, but will owe you $100 if they are wrong?
I doubt if they would be so forgiving under those circumstances.
The correct percentage that needs to be achieved depends on:
Without specifying both of these, the test must be statistically meaningless.
In other words, if a statistically significant portion of the judges guess correctly,
then the test is a failure. In order to judge that, you would need to have a sufficiently large group of judges
(at least several hundred) to make the statistical analysis valid.