In the past bicycles made 10 - 15 mph. I was nearly hit recently by an electrical bicycle, which was moving on a bicycle path with the speed of about 30 mph, absolutely silently.
Stereo sound was part of a pedestrian's security. Not anymore, not with electrical engines.
Perhaps electrical vehicles should be equipped with a sensor and sound emitting device. If the sensor notices a human around, an electric vehicle may start emitting, well, some constant sound.
Asking them to not use a car is like asking to refuse a heart pacemaker, or a tooth implant. It is a complicated social and biological issue, which has not simple solution, if any at all.
The human species are changing, turning into a kind of a giant bug with an exoskeleton (car). The humans were changing all the time, from a moment they started to think and use tools. For our ancestors from a million years ago we would also look strange, our big heads and foreheads would probably seem ugly to them.
Perhaps, this is the future of humankind, turning into big jellylike creatures with an exoskeleton (car).
An electric car is fast and practically soundless. The 3rd World War on roads, with current 1.5 million killed and about 7 million wounded per year, will go on for 20 more years.
But maybe by 2032 people would get smarter and build the Internet of things at last, not to drive 3000 pounds vehicle to sign a document or buy a bottle of milk.
Is it a good idea to leave your financial account password at a known place? A wife will get the husband's money anyway in several months after death.
But withdrawing money from husband's account after his death may look highly suspicious, especially if one is acquainted with real murder statistics.
The time of death is routinely recorded, and the time of money withdrawal too. An investigator will just have to look at the timing. It is simple to notice.
I've read about a law (I forgot the novel's title), that says that if a lot of people, say, the full Yankees stadium, wishes that a dry tree catches fire, it will catch fire.
What if a lot of people start to wish simultaneously that Julian disappears from Ecuador embassy building and appears in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador? It may well happen, in accordance with the Yankees stadium law.
But is it possible to send the.7Z archive by e-mail, as an attachment, save it on local disk and run Notepad++ from a folder? Also without installation.
I know that there is even the browser Firefox, which can be run without installation, from a folder.
Wow. What will they do when the power of a smartphone processor will be as of a PC and there will be flexible displays, like handkerchiefs? Body-search on entrance?
So we have a choice, build a robot to fit our current environment or build an environment to fit our robots. I think the former is more cost effective even though the realization of such a machine is further out.
Well and clear formulated.
At least we should understand that AI is powerful even now. However, it requires certain environment, infrastructure, and social attitude shift.
The robots can work on Mars and lune (but not in an office or warehouse) because there are no people there.
Understanding that the problem exists is already 50% of a solution. Perhaps, there is a realistic way to adjust an environment on large scale too.
The number of killed and injured in traffic accidents is constantly growing in the world. Sociologists talk of a 3rd World War, but on roads this time.
But I brought the topic of roads just to illustrate the embedded AI. The technology exists to create more intelligent transportation systems right now. However, not via adding a small clever box to an existing vehicle.
It would be world. This one, for instance: http://www.et3.com/ , "Space Travel on Earth", 100% safe, 1000 times more ecologically safer, because a car, aircraft or train mostly carry themselves.
This is not a bad idea. Seriously. Why not implement a new business style for hot weather instead of wearing heavy suites? Business shorts, sandals, light black socks, and a light classical shirt. It would save billions on electricity for air-conditioning and dry-cleaning.
The road system was brought just as an example. The point, however, was that the AI should be distributed, embedded in the whole system. For this - a system should be re-thought and re-build from the ground up.
It is impossible to add to an inherently unintelligent system a little box with a clever program and have an intelligent system. The AI is real, it works, but to implementation of it requires a large scale change, including the most difficult, - social change.
It turns out that there is surprisingly little activity in the brain of an insect when it runs, even though it has many pairs of legs.
The intelligence is not only in the brain, but it is also in the architecture of the system, including mechanical infrastructure.
AI is here, but it is bigger than what we had thought. Returning to my new washing machine, it would not be the right approach to build a humanoid robot to wash linen. Instead, the whole system is build anew, from a scratch, intelligently.
Nobody is capable drive a car well on existing roads. Even humans. About 1 500 000 humans are killed each year trying to do it. Times more wounded. The road system is that stupid. No wonder as it was created by Romans more than 2000 years back.
On the other hand, the technology for underground delivery and transportation networks does exist. It would be expensive to build? So what? Let us pay.
Such a system would not only be able to use AI, it will be AI in itself, an embedded intelligence. Besides, from ecological point of view it would be at least 10 - 100 times more safe.
My new automatic washing machine is an extremely useful robot, even though it does not have legs or hands.
There is only embedded intelligence. A pure intelligence does not even exist and cannot exist.
Why built an AI, which drives a car, if it is quite possible to build an underground transportation network and automate it with AI. This robust technology already exists.
It is easier to send an AI robot to another planet than to a local supermarket. And the problems are not mathematical, but social. The AI is already here and it is bigger than the current society's setup. The social setup and the infrastructure of society are to be changed in order to use it.
Another interesting observation about insects is that the intelligence of their movement is imbedded, hardwired, into the mechanical structure of their body. They think very little by brain when they move with large number of legs.
And ants communicate with smells. They emit molecules which transmit meaning for them. Sometimes they even connect antennas, as if creating one organism from several ones, to discuss faster.
There is a lizard which can hold the upright position no matter how it dropped on the floor. More than that it can hold it in the wind tunnel with artificial turbulence.
I listened to a radio show on this topic at http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/ . It is being studied already, but engineers cannot get it how it works so far. They say this threatened lizard should be definitely preserved for studying by smarter engineers in the future.
Still my claim hold, it was: If a man could cover the same number of the lengths of his body as an ant per the same amount of time, he would run at the speed about 1500 km/h (about 1000 miles/h).
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of the Japanese police and two journalists.
In the past bicycles made 10 - 15 mph. I was nearly hit recently by an electrical bicycle, which was moving on a bicycle path with the speed of about 30 mph, absolutely silently.
Stereo sound was part of a pedestrian's security. Not anymore, not with electrical engines.
Perhaps electrical vehicles should be equipped with a sensor and sound emitting device. If the sensor notices a human around, an electric vehicle may start emitting, well, some constant sound.
I agree.
But, for many people the car is already sort of a part of their body, an artificial exoskeleton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoskeleton
Asking them to not use a car is like asking to refuse a heart pacemaker, or a tooth implant. It is a complicated social and biological issue, which has not simple solution, if any at all.
The human species are changing, turning into a kind of a giant bug with an exoskeleton (car). The humans were changing all the time, from a moment they started to think and use tools. For our ancestors from a million years ago we would also look strange, our big heads and foreheads would probably seem ugly to them.
Perhaps, this is the future of humankind, turning into big jellylike creatures with an exoskeleton (car).
An electric car is fast and practically soundless. The 3rd World War on roads, with current 1.5 million killed and about 7 million wounded per year, will go on for 20 more years.
But maybe by 2032 people would get smarter and build the Internet of things at last, not to drive 3000 pounds vehicle to sign a document or buy a bottle of milk.
Is it a good idea to leave your financial account password at a known place? A wife will get the husband's money anyway in several months after death.
But withdrawing money from husband's account after his death may look highly suspicious, especially if one is acquainted with real murder statistics.
The time of death is routinely recorded, and the time of money withdrawal too. An investigator will just have to look at the timing. It is simple to notice.
Why do we need to send people in space? Would not robots do work better?
People are too heavy, need to much food and oxygen.
I am to be proud, as I was born in Siberia, but I think we damage the planet with such huge rockets.
And it is the only planet suitable for life. We won't get another.
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This is it.
Drone's URL, USB key-stick, log-in and password theoretically can be bought.
Certainly, we entertain an idea that there are no traitors, who sell information for money, but it happened before.
I've read about a law (I forgot the novel's title), that says that if a lot of people, say, the full Yankees stadium, wishes that a dry tree catches fire, it will catch fire.
What if a lot of people start to wish simultaneously that Julian disappears from Ecuador embassy building and appears in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador? It may well happen, in accordance with the Yankees stadium law.
But is it possible to send the .7Z archive by e-mail, as an attachment, save it on local disk and run Notepad++ from a folder? Also without installation.
I know that there is even the browser Firefox, which can be run without installation, from a folder.
Wow. What will they do when the power of a smartphone processor will be as of a PC and there will be flexible displays, like handkerchiefs? Body-search on entrance?
How they won't allow? Sealing USB sockets with a glue?
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.1.3.html
Notepad++ v6.1.3 7z package : Don't want to use installer? 7z format.
You can run "Notepad++" from a USB stick.
So we have a choice, build a robot to fit our current environment or build an environment to fit our robots. I think the former is more cost effective even though the realization of such a machine is further out.
Well and clear formulated.
At least we should understand that AI is powerful even now. However, it requires certain environment, infrastructure, and social attitude shift.
The robots can work on Mars and lune (but not in an office or warehouse) because there are no people there.
Understanding that the problem exists is already 50% of a solution. Perhaps, there is a realistic way to adjust an environment on large scale too.
I did not mean that the road system created by Romans was stupid in a common sense. For that time it was an incredible technological breakthrough.
I meant that it is "stupid" for an effective AI, as a technical term. Well, I could use a better term.
No doubt that the Roman Empire' achievements is a bedrock of the civilization.
The number of killed and injured in traffic accidents is constantly growing in the world. Sociologists talk of a 3rd World War, but on roads this time.
But I brought the topic of roads just to illustrate the embedded AI. The technology exists to create more intelligent transportation systems right now. However, not via adding a small clever box to an existing vehicle.
It would be world. This one, for instance: http://www.et3.com/ , "Space Travel on Earth", 100% safe, 1000 times more ecologically safer, because a car, aircraft or train mostly carry themselves.
Good point. But you would not mind to have a good cycling paths infrastructure for this, would you?
Walking and cycling are excellent approaches, but again it requires a serious infrastructure and mind shift.
Just google bicycle accidents statistics. Cycling in itself is safe, but the danger is from an obsolete urban infrastructure.
One cannot do something intelligent in isolation, the whole system should be intelligent.
This is not a bad idea. Seriously. Why not implement a new business style for hot weather instead of wearing heavy suites? Business shorts, sandals, light black socks, and a light classical shirt. It would save billions on electricity for air-conditioning and dry-cleaning.
The road system was brought just as an example. The point, however, was that the AI should be distributed, embedded in the whole system. For this - a system should be re-thought and re-build from the ground up.
It is impossible to add to an inherently unintelligent system a little box with a clever program and have an intelligent system. The AI is real, it works, but to implementation of it requires a large scale change, including the most difficult, - social change.
Better, but not enough.
I am going now to the supermarket to buy some bread and juice. I will use a car which weighs 1500 kg to bring 3 kg of items.
The efficiency of it is less 0.001%, as the mass of my body will also travel inside the car.
I would put it differently.
It turns out that there is surprisingly little activity in the brain of an insect when it runs, even though it has many pairs of legs.
The intelligence is not only in the brain, but it is also in the architecture of the system, including mechanical infrastructure.
AI is here, but it is bigger than what we had thought. Returning to my new washing machine, it would not be the right approach to build a humanoid robot to wash linen. Instead, the whole system is build anew, from a scratch, intelligently.
Nobody is capable drive a car well on existing roads. Even humans. About 1 500 000 humans are killed each year trying to do it. Times more wounded. The road system is that stupid. No wonder as it was created by Romans more than 2000 years back.
On the other hand, the technology for underground delivery and transportation networks does exist. It would be expensive to build? So what? Let us pay.
Such a system would not only be able to use AI, it will be AI in itself, an embedded intelligence. Besides, from ecological point of view it would be at least 10 - 100 times more safe.
My new automatic washing machine is an extremely useful robot, even though it does not have legs or hands.
There is only embedded intelligence. A pure intelligence does not even exist and cannot exist.
Why built an AI, which drives a car, if it is quite possible to build an underground transportation network and automate it with AI. This robust technology already exists.
It is easier to send an AI robot to another planet than to a local supermarket. And the problems are not mathematical, but social. The AI is already here and it is bigger than the current society's setup. The social setup and the infrastructure of society are to be changed in order to use it.
I see your point.
Another interesting observation about insects is that the intelligence of their movement is imbedded, hardwired, into the mechanical structure of their body. They think very little by brain when they move with large number of legs.
And ants communicate with smells. They emit molecules which transmit meaning for them. Sometimes they even connect antennas, as if creating one organism from several ones, to discuss faster.
There is a lizard which can hold the upright position no matter how it dropped on the floor. More than that it can hold it in the wind tunnel with artificial turbulence.
I listened to a radio show on this topic at http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/ . It is being studied already, but engineers cannot get it how it works so far. They say this threatened lizard should be definitely preserved for studying by smarter engineers in the future.
Still my claim hold, it was: If a man could cover the same number of the lengths of his body as an ant per the same amount of time, he would run at the speed about 1500 km/h (about 1000 miles/h).
Actually, it was not my research too.