Great. An Expert System to do your google searches based on what it thinks you meant. The giant Semantic 'Clippy' knows what's best when it pops up to say:
''Here are the results to the question you should have asked.''
Maybe next they'll have the Semantic Web manage the way electronic voting is counted. Semantic Clippy will count your 'intent' instead of your actual vote.
The only page I've found that won't work in Firefox is www.hotmail.com. But it only dies because my Firefox options are set to disable javascript. When I turn javascript on hotmail runs fine in Firefox.
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Is IP Property?
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There are many artists who barely make enough money from their 'intellectual property' to scratch out a very modest living: freelance writers, most novelists, most musicians. How are they supposed to make a living when you copy and steal their art, their IP? With no income from their art they'll be reduced to working in McJobs and have little time for creative work.
Eliminate IP and you will greatly decrease the number of people who can afford to spend their time being creative.
On the other hand I care nothing for the rights of evil corporations such as Viacom/CBS, AOL/Time Warner, Disney/Miramax etc.
What I loved about BR was the tension between the man, Deckard (classic film noir detective, depressed, alienated, bitter, almost running on autopilot) versus the replicants (artificial men struggling to become human, fighting for their lives). Deckard was human and the tragedy was in his job of killing artificial intelligences that were, maybe, more human than he was.
It was about a dehumanized man versus humanoid machines, about a man who lost his ideals versus androids struggling to prolong their lives.
What is it to be human? How will you know when your AI is human? Or when it's human enough?
I've read that Philip K. Dick was a functional schizophrenic. He personally had a hard time telling the difference between what was real and what was imaginary. And his struggles found expression in his novels.
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Great. An Expert System to do your google searches based on what it thinks you meant. The giant Semantic 'Clippy' knows what's best when it pops up to say:
''Here are the results to the question you should have asked.''
Maybe next they'll have the Semantic Web manage the way electronic voting is counted. Semantic Clippy will count your 'intent' instead of your actual vote.
Mel Brooks was brilliant when he was teamed up with Gene Wilder. That's why Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were wonderful.
Mel Brooks without Gene Wilder is mediocre at best.
The only page I've found that won't work in Firefox is www.hotmail.com. But it only dies because my Firefox options are set to disable javascript. When I turn javascript on hotmail runs fine in Firefox.
There are many artists who barely make enough money from their 'intellectual property' to scratch out a very modest living: freelance writers, most novelists, most musicians. How are they supposed to make a living when you copy and steal their art, their IP? With no income from their art they'll be reduced to working in McJobs and have little time for creative work. Eliminate IP and you will greatly decrease the number of people who can afford to spend their time being creative. On the other hand I care nothing for the rights of evil corporations such as Viacom/CBS, AOL/Time Warner, Disney/Miramax etc.
What I loved about BR was the tension between the man, Deckard (classic film noir detective, depressed, alienated, bitter, almost running on autopilot) versus the replicants (artificial men struggling to become human, fighting for their lives). Deckard was human and the tragedy was in his job of killing artificial intelligences that were, maybe, more human than he was.
It was about a dehumanized man versus humanoid machines, about a man who lost his ideals versus androids struggling to prolong their lives.
What is it to be human? How will you know when your AI is human? Or when it's human enough?
I've read that Philip K. Dick was a functional schizophrenic. He personally had a hard time telling the difference between what was real and what was imaginary. And his struggles found expression in his novels.