Can someone please explain to me why artificial intelligence is supposedly somehow any more terrifying than natural intelligence already is when the latter is applied to nefarious ends, and why it should ever be assumed that any general purpose AI would be somehow likely to have an agenda that we would actually consider to be corrupt or wrong?
It's terrifying mainly because I want to decide where to swerve when the time comes. That choice isn't given to the driver with autopilot on... or AIpilot.. or whatever, IMHO, tech addonn that Tesla is toying around with.
Personally, I would have focused on making a solid ride, THEN work on the autopilot stuff. That aspect of software is a whole new reason to buy later models, and to avoid lawsuits--even with dumbass drivers ignoring the proper autopilot protocol.
Besides the stockowners who sold enough stock to make the share price drop 6%+...
The stock will bounce back and those that sold based on their perception will kick themselves eventually, just like those that sold their stock in Nike.
Just like Google kept their maps API up-to-date, allowed almost unlimited calls to their db... and then they started to axe access to certain parts of the API with request/data limits. At least that's the gist I get out of the deal from a friend that used to work for a map app company years back --get the developers to rely on your ever-richer data set and then hit em with access fees.
With the 'other side' knocking on the door, I wonder if they'll be able to use some legal tactic to eventually own OpenStreetMap --maybe a fork of it somehow...I'm just throwing terrible guesses out.. it's late, sorry.a
Yeah, that's what they invented Airplane Mode for. I can still use my camera without a single antenna turned on... maybe listen to some Yppah on my earbuds whilst enjoying the high desert air, to boot.
Someone printed an early satirical version of Intel's logo that said "Big Brother Inside" and posted it on the lunchroom corkboard. It stayed there for the entire 10 years I worked there.
Travel with a thin-client and access your data, encrypted, via proxy if desired, and they can copy the hell outta a bare disk image till the cows come home --all the while, wasting taxpayers' money. Keep your passwords in your head.
Keep your opinions to yourself if you don't want to be targeted.
And my friend who gets pulled over all the time by cops wonders why and I say "it's probably because you have tons of beer company stickers all over your car" --it's a Colorado, craft-brew kinda thing...
I said you should put a Marines and Fraternal Order of Policemen stickers on it instead...
Coral can, and do, thrive on blue light. When light hits the water's surface, and as you get deeper, certain wavelengths are absorbed by the water... the first (and at quite a low depth, comparatively) is red, second yellow, and finally blue at, roughly, 300' deep. After that, only non-photosynthetic corals can exist. Most coral growers/aquarium enthusiasts enjoy the most-actinic wavelength, blue. Most LED lights, specifically for growing coral, have arrays of pure white, red, green, and blue diodes.
I grew the hell out of many SPS, LPS, and softbodied corals with mostly the blue channel on..rarely turned on the white/red/green channel.
'Anon' posting for example, should probably just go away at this point, as the number of insightful posts by whistle-blowers and people who need discretion -- The Internet is full of awful people with terrible ideas, and they all want to share them with you. Good luck moderating that....
The comment filter is a fantastic way to cut through all the trolls' chaff... truly a great addition I didn't even mention earlier.
And regarding 'awful people' (lol! that reminds me of John Cleese as Robin Hood in Time Bandits), I like to reword a lyric from Bob Marley -- "You can please some people some of the time, but you can't please all the people all the time."
Slashdot's moderating system is still, IMHO, the best example of a way for a community to not only moderate discussion, but use tags to clarify why a person voted for a post... I love the Funny and Troll mod options, but Under/Overrated are hugely important, too.
I agree with your assessment that it's ludicrous to source fuel from the moon, however large-scale, energy-creating structures simply won't be the future.
Improvements to PV-capture at the nano level (incidental capture, being the biggest) and cheap fabrication of nano-arrays will make almost any surface energy sink, i.e., clothes, paint, etc. Homes equipped with battery storage can link to other homes, thus creating a mesh. Goodbye utility companies.
Thank you! No, a lot of this stuff doesn't need to be thrown away, yet they find a way to write it off the bottom-line.
It reminds me of how many college students just throw working computers, TVs, stereos, etc., in the dumpster at the end of the year. Absolutely disgusting the throw-away culture that's developed the last 60 years is.
ISPs, bah.. they're all crappy. The real problem is...what if you're a Comcast customer and you turn to HBO for John Oliver and there's a message saying, "Comcast is sorry we can't air this channel anymore..."
And now the only way to watch HBO is via DirectTV, or pay for it directly via Fire, etc...
I predict that pirating will become more commonplace as more of the pipes own more of the content. Already there's talk that Netflix and Google should start building out their own networks.
Can we just declare the internet an f'in utility, please??
Apple needs to f***ing put a sandbox around Contacts, Mail, Notes, etc, and only allow intercommunication between apps that willingly share keys. Simple and done.
The general rule is, "You don't get what you expect, you get what you inspect."
You can trust that if someone is allowed to break the rule/law, they will break it. Just sandbox those damn apps already, Apple!
I was thinking this policy could be used in an activist-like manner to boycott certain, unfavorable companies, but that's funny about Facebook, for sure.
Google has a monopoly on search, and thus detailed profiles of their users. Via their free Gmail, they have unique insights into people that Facebook would like a larger slice of. YouTube provides more... their browser and OS give them even more details.
But Facebook has a monopoly in certain content... theoretically. Every user has to give Facebook consent to use, in perpetuity, anything they upload, in order to use their platform. G+ did not do that, IIRC.
Videos, pics, STORIES (fact or fiction), random literature, etc... anything Facebook thinks they can profit from, they will.
Just like Amazon and their popup stores inside Whole Foods featuring new Kindles and the Echo. Uggg, no thanks. I'm not a cantaloupe and I'll not be buying them from you anymore...lost my appetite.
Yup. mod parent up. Turkey, a country with a questionable human-rights record (and desperately wants to get into the EU) is calling this a copyright/trademark issue?? LOL!!! I gotta admit, they are trying to be creative in their ongoing subjugation. The two parts of the article basically sum up.
"A Turkish court on Tuesday banned all services of Periscope, a live video broadcasting platform...
"Turkey has temporarily blocked social media sites including Facebook and Twitter in the past, usually following protests or terrorist attacks."
I must say, in this instance. The US got it right and the Germans got it wrong.
Not sure about the Germans.. maybe you're thinking of Australians? Anyway, you're right... SCOTUS did get something right. Eventually Australia did, too.
A June 2013 article, in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (No. 12-398), quoted the US Supreme Court's unanimous ruling that, "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated," invalidating Myriad's patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. However, the Court also held that manipulation of a gene to create something not found in nature could still be eligible for patent protection.[127] The Federal Court of Australia came to the opposite conclusion, upholding the validity of an Australian Myriad Genetics patent over the BRCA1 gene in February 2013.[128] The Federal Court also rejected an appeal in September 2014.[129] Yvonne D’Arcy won her case against US-based biotech company Myriad Genetics in the High Court of Australia. In their unanimous decision on October 7, 2015 the "high court found that an isolated nucleic acid, coding for a BRCA1 protein, with specific variations from the norm that are indicative of susceptibility to breast cancer and ovarian cancer was not a 'patentable invention.'"[130]
While I despise the whole lot of these vloggers and youtubers, now you're just being an asshat.
Says the typical jerk who thinks creativity can be summoned on command... For once, the ACs hot the nail on the head.
These 'top creators' have no contract, therefore, they're not beholden to create for the masses on schedule. If they're trying to make a living at something that's not guaranteed (contracted, as most professional creatives are) and trying to out-think advertising algorithms, well, good luck!
It's like the time when your friend is singing to the radio and it's off-key... "Don't quit your day job, man."
You either have it or you don't... well, really, you either WANT it or you don't.
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Can someone please explain to me why artificial intelligence is supposedly somehow any more terrifying than natural intelligence already is when the latter is applied to nefarious ends, and why it should ever be assumed that any general purpose AI would be somehow likely to have an agenda that we would actually consider to be corrupt or wrong?
It's terrifying mainly because I want to decide where to swerve when the time comes. That choice isn't given to the driver with autopilot on... or AIpilot.. or whatever, IMHO, tech addonn that Tesla is toying around with.
Personally, I would have focused on making a solid ride, THEN work on the autopilot stuff. That aspect of software is a whole new reason to buy later models, and to avoid lawsuits--even with dumbass drivers ignoring the proper autopilot protocol.
Besides the stockowners who sold enough stock to make the share price drop 6%+...
The stock will bounce back and those that sold based on their perception will kick themselves eventually, just like those that sold their stock in Nike.
The 'real' ancient proverb is, "It's a trap!"
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Just like Google kept their maps API up-to-date, allowed almost unlimited calls to their db... and then they started to axe access to certain parts of the API with request/data limits. At least that's the gist I get out of the deal from a friend that used to work for a map app company years back --get the developers to rely on your ever-richer data set and then hit em with access fees.
With the 'other side' knocking on the door, I wonder if they'll be able to use some legal tactic to eventually own OpenStreetMap --maybe a fork of it somehow...I'm just throwing terrible guesses out.. it's late, sorry.a
Yeah, that's what they invented Airplane Mode for. I can still use my camera without a single antenna turned on... maybe listen to some Yppah on my earbuds whilst enjoying the high desert air, to boot.
Someone printed an early satirical version of Intel's logo that said "Big Brother Inside" and posted it on the lunchroom corkboard. It stayed there for the entire 10 years I worked there.
Travel with a thin-client and access your data, encrypted, via proxy if desired, and they can copy the hell outta a bare disk image till the cows come home --all the while, wasting taxpayers' money. Keep your passwords in your head.
'nuff said.
Keep your opinions to yourself if you don't want to be targeted.
And my friend who gets pulled over all the time by cops wonders why and I say "it's probably because you have tons of beer company stickers all over your car" --it's a Colorado, craft-brew kinda thing...
I said you should put a Marines and Fraternal Order of Policemen stickers on it instead...
I wonder...
Do anyone make laptop camera stickers that look like laptop cameras?
I like those bullet-hole stickers that wannabe gangstas put on their cars... it says so much.
Nope, and nope.
Coral can, and do, thrive on blue light. When light hits the water's surface, and as you get deeper, certain wavelengths are absorbed by the water... the first (and at quite a low depth, comparatively) is red, second yellow, and finally blue at, roughly, 300' deep. After that, only non-photosynthetic corals can exist. Most coral growers/aquarium enthusiasts enjoy the most-actinic wavelength, blue. Most LED lights, specifically for growing coral, have arrays of pure white, red, green, and blue diodes.
I grew the hell out of many SPS, LPS, and softbodied corals with mostly the blue channel on..rarely turned on the white/red/green channel.
'Anon' posting for example, should probably just go away at this point, as the number of insightful posts by whistle-blowers and people who need discretion -- The Internet is full of awful people with terrible ideas, and they all want to share them with you. Good luck moderating that....
The comment filter is a fantastic way to cut through all the trolls' chaff... truly a great addition I didn't even mention earlier.
And regarding 'awful people' (lol! that reminds me of John Cleese as Robin Hood in Time Bandits), I like to reword a lyric from Bob Marley -- "You can please some people some of the time, but you can't please all the people all the time."
Google acting like the entire world needs [https] is incredibly stupid.
Not to mention Google can't even walk the walk... why are they delivering my search results via http and not https?
I have a feeling it's just a cashgrab to sell more certs, whether they or a business partner is doing it.
Slashdot's moderating system is still, IMHO, the best example of a way for a community to not only moderate discussion, but use tags to clarify why a person voted for a post... I love the Funny and Troll mod options, but Under/Overrated are hugely important, too.
I agree with your assessment that it's ludicrous to source fuel from the moon, however large-scale, energy-creating structures simply won't be the future.
Improvements to PV-capture at the nano level (incidental capture, being the biggest) and cheap fabrication of nano-arrays will make almost any surface energy sink, i.e., clothes, paint, etc. Homes equipped with battery storage can link to other homes, thus creating a mesh. Goodbye utility companies.
Don't forget to mention; non-HTTPS enabled sites simply won't be displayed in Chrome or Safari.
Firefox FTW
Forcing every site to get a cert only creates a certification industry.
MacGyver was the biggest hack...
Thank you! No, a lot of this stuff doesn't need to be thrown away, yet they find a way to write it off the bottom-line.
It reminds me of how many college students just throw working computers, TVs, stereos, etc., in the dumpster at the end of the year. Absolutely disgusting the throw-away culture that's developed the last 60 years is.
ISPs, bah.. they're all crappy. The real problem is ...what if you're a Comcast customer and you turn to HBO for John Oliver and there's a message saying, "Comcast is sorry we can't air this channel anymore..."
And now the only way to watch HBO is via DirectTV, or pay for it directly via Fire, etc...
I predict that pirating will become more commonplace as more of the pipes own more of the content. Already there's talk that Netflix and Google should start building out their own networks.
Can we just declare the internet an f'in utility, please??
Apple needs to f***ing put a sandbox around Contacts, Mail, Notes, etc, and only allow intercommunication between apps that willingly share keys. Simple and done.
The general rule is, "You don't get what you expect, you get what you inspect."
You can trust that if someone is allowed to break the rule/law, they will break it. Just sandbox those damn apps already, Apple!
I was thinking this policy could be used in an activist-like manner to boycott certain, unfavorable companies, but that's funny about Facebook, for sure.
Google has a monopoly on search, and thus detailed profiles of their users. Via their free Gmail, they have unique insights into people that Facebook would like a larger slice of. YouTube provides more... their browser and OS give them even more details.
But Facebook has a monopoly in certain content... theoretically. Every user has to give Facebook consent to use, in perpetuity, anything they upload, in order to use their platform. G+ did not do that, IIRC.
Videos, pics, STORIES (fact or fiction), random literature, etc... anything Facebook thinks they can profit from, they will.
Just like Amazon and their popup stores inside Whole Foods featuring new Kindles and the Echo. Uggg, no thanks. I'm not a cantaloupe and I'll not be buying them from you anymore...lost my appetite.
Yup. mod parent up. Turkey, a country with a questionable human-rights record (and desperately wants to get into the EU) is calling this a copyright/trademark issue?? LOL!!! I gotta admit, they are trying to be creative in their ongoing subjugation. The two parts of the article basically sum up.
"A Turkish court on Tuesday banned all services of Periscope, a live video broadcasting platform...
"Turkey has temporarily blocked social media sites including Facebook and Twitter in the past, usually following protests or terrorist attacks."
I must say, in this instance. The US got it right and the Germans got it wrong.
Not sure about the Germans.. maybe you're thinking of Australians? Anyway, you're right... SCOTUS did get something right. Eventually Australia did, too.
A June 2013 article, in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (No. 12-398), quoted the US Supreme Court's unanimous ruling that, "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated," invalidating Myriad's patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. However, the Court also held that manipulation of a gene to create something not found in nature could still be eligible for patent protection.[127] The Federal Court of Australia came to the opposite conclusion, upholding the validity of an Australian Myriad Genetics patent over the BRCA1 gene in February 2013.[128] The Federal Court also rejected an appeal in September 2014.[129] Yvonne D’Arcy won her case against US-based biotech company Myriad Genetics in the High Court of Australia. In their unanimous decision on October 7, 2015 the "high court found that an isolated nucleic acid, coding for a BRCA1 protein, with specific variations from the norm that are indicative of susceptibility to breast cancer and ovarian cancer was not a 'patentable invention.'"[130]
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While I despise the whole lot of these vloggers and youtubers, now you're just being an asshat.
Says the typical jerk who thinks creativity can be summoned on command... For once, the ACs hot the nail on the head.
These 'top creators' have no contract, therefore, they're not beholden to create for the masses on schedule. If they're trying to make a living at something that's not guaranteed (contracted, as most professional creatives are) and trying to out-think advertising algorithms, well, good luck!
It's like the time when your friend is singing to the radio and it's off-key... "Don't quit your day job, man."
You either have it or you don't... well, really, you either WANT it or you don't.
No matter how good AI and processing get, there's only so much you can do within the physical constraints of a small smartphone sensor.
Every human has the same physicality, therefore the same brain architecture.
It's the software, stupid.