The cool thing about Watson is that you can feed in documents in natural language. The other is its scale. A well-maintained Watson "state" for a specific area is extremely useful for looking things up fast and with high accuracy and completeness. As such it can save an export a lot of time when analyzing things. But it cannot do your thinking for you and IBM does not claim that. Last statement I heard from am IBM expert was "certainly not in the next 50 years and after that, who knows". As these people really have tried to get more, I think that is a very accurate description of the current state of strong AI: Nowhere on the horizon.
That is not to say that automation will not take a lot of jobs and on the other hand create some very powerful tools, but what the media writes is going completely in the wrong direction.
You seem to be unaware of what "professional" means. It does include not washing dirty laundry in public. The only exception may be if you have enough for a successful lawsuit, because then any prospective future employer can at least be reasonably sure you did not lie. May still kill your career though.
The quid-pro-quo you describe is what can be expected of an "ordinary" person, standards for "professionals" are higher.
And how do you think people end up unemployable? Sure, if you badmouth an old employer in a fashion that cannot easily be traced back to you, that works, but everything else is career-suicide.
Looks like it. A real shame. And all your people had to do is not to listen to the completely disconnected-from-reality UK "elite". Also I am well aware that a _lot_ of people voted against this suicide-move, and they do not deserve what is to come at all.
You need to take into account that AMD CPU interconnect and thread migration always was far, far superior to Intel. Usually you lose low single digits in performance on AMD, while on Intel people hat to use an additional system to stream gaming, for example, because Intel inter-CPU communication is so bad.
Intel very likely has nothing. They made huge profits being fat and lazy and they expected that to continue. Remember that comparable small AMD has declassed Intel before. Intel may well need several years to catch up.
Actually, she is. Going public with something like that is not acceptable, except if all other venues are exhausted and there is solid proof. That does not seem to be the case here. In actual fact, she has a duty to be loyal to her employer in this regard even after not working there anymore.
The only ones that are going to hire her now are those that want her as a poster-girl. Anybody else will not touch her with a 10-foot pole. It does not even matter whether her claims are true or not for that.
I do not agree. They bring one AC in disrepute and that is it. People that generalize unsophisticated statement like that to a whole gender are not better than the one that just made that statement.
Unfortunately, there is no way to be sure from the outside whether this was the right thing to happen or not. Public opinion is rarely in sync with actual facts.
These were called "Expert Systems" back then and while they worked on smaller Databases and had to be fed pre-translated data, they were not conceptionally different to Watson.
For damage done: The organization itself. It has a budget.
For the criminal charges: Whoever was responsible for the theft being possible. Ultimately that will the the NSA heads in office when the relevant mistakes were made and subsequently not discovered or corrected. That responsible can move to people lower in the chain-of-command, for example if they ignored orders, falsified reports, etc.
But as usual, criminal activity (and we have at the very least "criminally negligent" on the NSA's part here) by state actors has zero negative consequences for them. One of the corner-stones of a corrupt government that has forgotten that it serves the people.
Except for the absence of a "god", Physicalism is religion. Similar variations of the religious meme have existed before, see, e.g. some variants of communism or national socialism. These are religions in all but name and about as well-funded on actual facts.
Without a god or some form of metaphysical beliefs, you cannot classify something as a religion. You can describe it as a philosophy, belief system, etc. but not a religion. Physicalism is by definition not a religion because it does not consist of metaphysical or supernatural claims.
Of course I can. We can call is "quasi religion" or "religion surrogate", but it is basically the same thing. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it very likely is a duck, even if the color may be off.
Rather strong evidence to the contrary is completely ignored (the nature of consciousness is completely unknown, how intelligence works in a smart person is completely unknown and consciousness and real intelligence are _only_ observable together)
Consciousness and intelligence variability provide no evidence for the existence of any force/substance/etc we have not yet been able to measure. The very fact we do not understand the mechanism behind consciousness makes it evidence of nothing. If I don't understand something I surely cannot use it as evidence of something else. How one person can be smarter than another is no more mystical than how one person can be stronger than another, even though we don't yet know how to measure intelligence on a genetic / cellular / etc level. Every time society attributes mysticism to the boundaries of our scientific knowledge they have been wrong so far, so there is no reason to think it will be any different with consciousness.
And wrong again. The very fact that we do not understand what consciousness is provides a very strong indicator that our current theories are incomplete. It does not indicate they just need to be extended among known lines, as you seem to assume.
Right now science describes a world where humans are no different than another other complex system. We could surely find out we are wrong in the future, but nothing we can measure now suggests we are wrong.
It does not. This is a belief, not something Science states. Science says that we have no clue how human consciousness and intelligence works. We can describe to a degree what consciousness and intelligence can do and we can describe to a degree how that manifests at the interface, but that is it. The scientific description of this world is incomplete in many aspects and this is one of them. An actual scientist does understand that.
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Well, good luck with that. And yes, I do actually know what I am talking about.
The cool thing about Watson is that you can feed in documents in natural language. The other is its scale. A well-maintained Watson "state" for a specific area is extremely useful for looking things up fast and with high accuracy and completeness. As such it can save an export a lot of time when analyzing things. But it cannot do your thinking for you and IBM does not claim that. Last statement I heard from am IBM expert was "certainly not in the next 50 years and after that, who knows". As these people really have tried to get more, I think that is a very accurate description of the current state of strong AI: Nowhere on the horizon.
That is not to say that automation will not take a lot of jobs and on the other hand create some very powerful tools, but what the media writes is going completely in the wrong direction.
You seem to be unaware of what "professional" means. It does include not washing dirty laundry in public. The only exception may be if you have enough for a successful lawsuit, because then any prospective future employer can at least be reasonably sure you did not lie. May still kill your career though.
The quid-pro-quo you describe is what can be expected of an "ordinary" person, standards for "professionals" are higher.
And how do you think people end up unemployable? Sure, if you badmouth an old employer in a fashion that cannot easily be traced back to you, that works, but everything else is career-suicide.
Looks like it. A real shame. And all your people had to do is not to listen to the completely disconnected-from-reality UK "elite". Also I am well aware that a _lot_ of people voted against this suicide-move, and they do not deserve what is to come at all.
You need to take into account that AMD CPU interconnect and thread migration always was far, far superior to Intel. Usually you lose low single digits in performance on AMD, while on Intel people hat to use an additional system to stream gaming, for example, because Intel inter-CPU communication is so bad.
Intel very likely has nothing. They made huge profits being fat and lazy and they expected that to continue. Remember that comparable small AMD has declassed Intel before. Intel may well need several years to catch up.
Actually, she is. Going public with something like that is not acceptable, except if all other venues are exhausted and there is solid proof. That does not seem to be the case here. In actual fact, she has a duty to be loyal to her employer in this regard even after not working there anymore.
The only ones that are going to hire her now are those that want her as a poster-girl. Anybody else will not touch her with a 10-foot pole. It does not even matter whether her claims are true or not for that.
I do not agree. They bring one AC in disrepute and that is it. People that generalize unsophisticated statement like that to a whole gender are not better than the one that just made that statement.
Unfortunately, there is no way to be sure from the outside whether this was the right thing to happen or not. Public opinion is rarely in sync with actual facts.
That is bullshit. Also, why keep people talking about "intelligent", when supposedly they know it is weak AI?
That does not exist. Only the scale is a bit different now.
These were called "Expert Systems" back then and while they worked on smaller Databases and had to be fed pre-translated data, they were not conceptionally different to Watson.
Fort his purpose, the UK does not qualify as "Europe". It has a completely different rail-system.
And if that were true, it would be a problem. Instead, it is a complete fantasy on your part.
I.e. the "AI" with no "I" in it. Before the demented AI hype, this was called "automation".
The problem is Amtrak. You can see in Europe and, for example, Japan, what is possible with trains.
You seem to be confused. A phone is a _communication_ device. But for example, my water-cooker is not.
For damage done: The organization itself. It has a budget.
For the criminal charges: Whoever was responsible for the theft being possible. Ultimately that will the the NSA heads in office when the relevant mistakes were made and subsequently not discovered or corrected. That responsible can move to people lower in the chain-of-command, for example if they ignored orders, falsified reports, etc.
See, not so difficult.
Creating weaponized code and then let that be stolen from them? I am sure a creative prosecutor could find a few centuries of prison time in there.
And China will automatize just as well, only a bit later.
But as usual, criminal activity (and we have at the very least "criminally negligent" on the NSA's part here) by state actors has zero negative consequences for them. One of the corner-stones of a corrupt government that has forgotten that it serves the people.
Indeed. Also, if it is not broken, then do not fix it.
And those will begin to see that a device that cannot connect to the internet as an advantage and that will make sure they get that.
Except for the absence of a "god", Physicalism is religion. Similar variations of the religious meme have existed before, see, e.g. some variants of communism or national socialism. These are religions in all but name and about as well-funded on actual facts.
Without a god or some form of metaphysical beliefs, you cannot classify something as a religion. You can describe it as a philosophy, belief system, etc. but not a religion. Physicalism is by definition not a religion because it does not consist of metaphysical or supernatural claims.
Of course I can. We can call is "quasi religion" or "religion surrogate", but it is basically the same thing. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it very likely is a duck, even if the color may be off.
Rather strong evidence to the contrary is completely ignored (the nature of consciousness is completely unknown, how intelligence works in a smart person is completely unknown and consciousness and real intelligence are _only_ observable together)
Consciousness and intelligence variability provide no evidence for the existence of any force/substance/etc we have not yet been able to measure. The very fact we do not understand the mechanism behind consciousness makes it evidence of nothing. If I don't understand something I surely cannot use it as evidence of something else. How one person can be smarter than another is no more mystical than how one person can be stronger than another, even though we don't yet know how to measure intelligence on a genetic / cellular / etc level. Every time society attributes mysticism to the boundaries of our scientific knowledge they have been wrong so far, so there is no reason to think it will be any different with consciousness.
And wrong again. The very fact that we do not understand what consciousness is provides a very strong indicator that our current theories are incomplete. It does not indicate they just need to be extended among known lines, as you seem to assume.
Right now science describes a world where humans are no different than another other complex system. We could surely find out we are wrong in the future, but nothing we can measure now suggests we are wrong.
It does not. This is a belief, not something Science states. Science says that we have no clue how human consciousness and intelligence works. We can describe to a degree what consciousness and intelligence can do and we can describe to a degree how that manifests at the interface, but that is it. The scientific description of this world is incomplete in many aspects and this is one of them. An actual scientist does understand that.