The problem is almost all development in the US ended decades ago, not much more has been done elsewhere, so we're way behind where we should be.
Yep.
If the USA had spent 10% of what it spends on military dick waving on energy research instead, clean energy would be a done deal by now.
And... competing with Chinese cheap labor would be no problem is you have very cheap energy, etc., etc. Energy solves an awful lot of other problems as well.
But nooooo. The USA could never do anything like that. Brawn before brains, always.
So to clarify you are calling Colin Powell corrupt as shit and saying he lies through his teeth?
Yes.
eg. His "Weapons of Mass Destruction" speeches - 100% barefaced lies before the entire world. Trillions of dollars have been spent and a lot of people have died as a result of those speeches.
PS: Does a candidate's chances in the next election really depend on having a working website? Maybe it's just me but I have a hard time imagining Trump supporters going online and informing themselves about anything.
Neural networks are just a fancy form of heuristic.
At the end of the day the underlying main loop in the program will be very similar to chess (or reversi, or tic-tac-toe,,,,).
a) It generates moves b) It gives the new board position a score c) It plays the move with the highest score
Part (b) is the tricky bit but at the end of the day it's just a case adding up values output by a set of heuristics applied to the board. The machine isn't showing any "intelligence" at all. All the intelligence comes from the people who decided on what heuristics to use.
No argument that chess is simpler but at the end of the day the process is the same. A bunch of humans did trial and error with lots of heuristics and ran machines against each other all day long to find out which ones worked best. When it gets complex you can vary the scores for each heuristic randomly and let the machines fight it out while you sleep. End of story.
The big advantage of machines compared to humans is that they're methodical and don't overlook stuff. They don't get tired, they don't have bad days.
No it isn't. It has a lot of processing power and well-tuned set of heuristics allowing it to assign a score to each board position. That's not intelligence, it's data processing.
The only thing surprising about the Go event is that it did not happen like ten, or even twenty, years ago. You may be impressed, but I find this most underwhelming.
That's likely because you don't understand what it involves. Go is unlike chess in the sense that just throwing raw computing power at the problem won't help you at all; for a "small" 13x13 there are over 10^300 valid game trees to compute,
....except that no program ever computes the full game tree. It would be impossible to do in many games, eg. Chess.
The trick is to prune the tree. This requires skill by human programmers.
(What this news is really about is that some humans have managed to produce a workable pruning algorithm for Go, it really has very little to do with AI).
Well, that's up for debate. Go is arguably the hardest game to play (and master) there is.
It still follows very fixed rules.
Lee's defeat at Go doesn't demonstrate machine "intelligence" any more than Kasparov's defeat at chess did. It just shows better algorithms and advances in computer processing power.
Some of us are old enough to have seen thousands of these "in 10 years" vaporware press releases for stuff that never gets put in production, and so have become quite jaded.
Doesn't mean that nobody will ever build a breakthrough battery....
They're not claiming anything impossible, over unity, or against the laws of physics. Try keeping your jaded old mind open.
Umm, before we advocate the summary execution and public hanging of those involved, I might like to get a wee bit more information about what we're discussing. Stuff that, you know, the summary might have actually included such as:
Which countries are potentially party to this?
How do the provisions differ from currently accepted law in those countries?
Who has enforcement rights over violations?
You're completely missing the points: a) This is a slippery slope, they haven't finished yet (they're probably already discussing the next one...) b) None of what they're doing is based on evidence (or even common sense). It's based on lobbying and bribes from people who professionally rip musicians off and want to keep it that way. c) None of it will have the slightest effect on copyright infringement. All it does is take away civil liberties and allow people to shut down _any_ web site they don't like with no personal liability.
Try reading some data files created 20 or 30 years ago. Never mind the problem of getting them off of the media. It's how do you read the format of the file. Sure simple things like text and GIF files are okay. But what about spreadsheets and word processing files? Anything from a database? Now imagine 100 years into the future and try to interpret a Word or RAW file.
The trick is not to use deliberately obfuscated file formats (or software that generates them).
I'm pretty sure people in the future will be able to decipher ASCII / XML / Markdown / etc
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The problem is almost all development in the US ended decades ago, not much more has been done elsewhere, so we're way behind where we should be.
Yep.
If the USA had spent 10% of what it spends on military dick waving on energy research instead, clean energy would be a done deal by now.
And ... competing with Chinese cheap labor would be no problem is you have very cheap energy, etc., etc. Energy solves an awful lot of other problems as well.
But nooooo. The USA could never do anything like that. Brawn before brains, always.
So to clarify you are calling Colin Powell corrupt as shit and saying he lies through his teeth?
Yes.
eg. His "Weapons of Mass Destruction" speeches - 100% barefaced lies before the entire world. Trillions of dollars have been spent and a lot of people have died as a result of those speeches.
PS: Does a candidate's chances in the next election really depend on having a working website? Maybe it's just me but I have a hard time imagining Trump supporters going online and informing themselves about anything.
Neural networks are just a fancy form of heuristic.
At the end of the day the underlying main loop in the program will be very similar to chess (or reversi, or tic-tac-toe,,,,).
a) It generates moves
b) It gives the new board position a score
c) It plays the move with the highest score
Part (b) is the tricky bit but at the end of the day it's just a case adding up values output by a set of heuristics applied to the board. The machine isn't showing any "intelligence" at all. All the intelligence comes from the people who decided on what heuristics to use.
No argument that chess is simpler but at the end of the day the process is the same. A bunch of humans did trial and error with lots of heuristics and ran machines against each other all day long to find out which ones worked best. When it gets complex you can vary the scores for each heuristic randomly and let the machines fight it out while you sleep. End of story.
The big advantage of machines compared to humans is that they're methodical and don't overlook stuff. They don't get tired, they don't have bad days.
it's *very* intelligent
No it isn't. It has a lot of processing power and well-tuned set of heuristics allowing it to assign a score to each board position. That's not intelligence, it's data processing.
I tried upgrading my laptop to Windows 10 and it fails. "All your files are right where you left them"? Um, no. They weren't.
If they ever _force_ the upgrade my laptop will be trashed.
The only thing surprising about the Go event is that it did not happen like ten, or even twenty, years ago. You may be impressed, but I find this most underwhelming.
That's likely because you don't understand what it involves. Go is unlike chess in the sense that just throwing raw computing power at the problem won't help you at all; for a "small" 13x13 there are over 10^300 valid game trees to compute,
....except that no program ever computes the full game tree. It would be impossible to do in many games, eg. Chess.
The trick is to prune the tree. This requires skill by human programmers.
(What this news is really about is that some humans have managed to produce a workable pruning algorithm for Go, it really has very little to do with AI).
It's not hard to play a game.
Well, that's up for debate. Go is arguably the hardest game to play (and master) there is.
It still follows very fixed rules.
Lee's defeat at Go doesn't demonstrate machine "intelligence" any more than Kasparov's defeat at chess did. It just shows better algorithms and advances in computer processing power.
People as a rule do not care about DRMs.
People as a rule either buy discs in shops, in which case they don't know it exists.
Or... they download stuff on the Internet, in which case they don't know it exists.
"requires the playback device to download the decryption key from the internet"
So... some sort of packet sniffer might be in order.
Some of us are old enough to have seen thousands of these "in 10 years" vaporware press releases for stuff that never gets put in production, and so have become quite jaded.
Doesn't mean that nobody will ever build a breakthrough battery....
They're not claiming anything impossible, over unity, or against the laws of physics. Try keeping your jaded old mind open.
Hold on a minute, Mr. Bad Guy, my ROE says I have to switch to some 50 meter bullets before I can shoot at you.
Which then makes operations like 'what is the character 10,002 in this string" much slower.
There's always a trade off.
No it doesn't, because you don't use utf-8 in memory.
Memory - wchar_t
Storage medium - utf-8.
It's not difficult.
Jedi is still missing.
And nothing of value was lost.
I always wondered why drummers spend years practicing and building up enough stamina to be able to do that.
Surely all you need is an Arduino, a foot switch and some sort of linear actuator to move the pedal.
Umm, before we advocate the summary execution and public hanging of those involved, I might like to get a wee bit more information about what we're discussing. Stuff that, you know, the summary might have actually included such as:
You're completely missing the points:
a) This is a slippery slope, they haven't finished yet (they're probably already discussing the next one...)
b) None of what they're doing is based on evidence (or even common sense). It's based on lobbying and bribes from people who professionally rip musicians off and want to keep it that way.
c) None of it will have the slightest effect on copyright infringement. All it does is take away civil liberties and allow people to shut down _any_ web site they don't like with no personal liability.
I'm sure they'll still be using ASCII + UTF8.
(What possible reason could there be to stop using that?)
Try reading some data files created 20 or 30 years ago. Never mind the problem of getting them off of the media. It's how do you read the format of the file. Sure simple things like text and GIF files are okay. But what about spreadsheets and word processing files? Anything from a database? Now imagine 100 years into the future and try to interpret a Word or RAW file.
The trick is not to use deliberately obfuscated file formats (or software that generates them).
I'm pretty sure people in the future will be able to decipher ASCII / XML / Markdown / etc
Let's just hope nobody drops it on the floor and breaks it.
(Or install shag-pile carpets in the server room, just in case...)
The Swedish authorities cannot charge him while he is in London
No, but they could decide he's not guilty and therefore free to go (he's only wanted for questioning at the moment).
and so there is little point in interviewing him
There's no point in seeing justice done...? Uhuh.
I'm not sure they'd put it on a bus stop, even in France.
(Yes, they put topless women on bus stop adverts there)
"increased performance and lower cost"
I'd settle for "same performance, same cost, improved reliability".
It can be considered very successful, period. No qualifiers needed.
If it's 'wormable' then can't they write a worm that goes out and fixes the problem?
Spending $20,000,000,000,000 (and counting...) on pointless war in the Middle East instead of energy research is really working out well for the USA.