Watson does not "know" anything. All it can do is a very limited semantic pattern matching on natural language. Hence it will just be putting out the same insane crap that the natural born idiots do.
I thing HR basically uses natural stupidity. Although, unlike AI, Artificial Stupidity is something that seems very much possible at this time and is already in use in some places.
The medical one failed pretty spectacularly, with Watson recommending treatments that would have killed people, as far as I remember. I also know of an attempt to use in in IT security, but basically it ended up being a kind of news-compiler.
Seems to me that while Watson is a nice demonstration about the state-of-the-art in NLP, that state is still sorely lacking and may continue to sorely lack for a long, long time and possibly forever. (And don't give me that nonsense that "science" would be claiming humans are just computers on legs because everything is known Physics. Science claims no such thing. Science very much says that we have no clue how humans do it. Incidentally, known Physics is known to be wrong, unless somebody solved quantum-gravity while I was not looking.)
No. We have about no examples were a severe infectious disease is critical for an ecosystem. They are nit parasites, where that is different. They are basically biological free-riders. Also, it is very easy to reintroduce that disease in case something begins to really break. Of course, that is not something you tell the public.
You seem to be mistaken about where you are. This is/., not a scientific review committee. The Polio example is still extremely obviously (and extremely obviously back then) something completely different. Makes me think you lack the background to understand what is going on here.
The Australians also messed up badly with Rabbits.
The point is not to not do these things, but to be very, very careful. I doubt Google was ever really careful in anything they do. Too much intelligence and money, not a lot of wisdom.
a) The people doing that were definitely not bright-eyed hacks. b) Nothing else depends on Polio and Smallpox being there. Eradicating a disease and eradicating a species are two very different things.
Clearly MS is in steep decline. They have nothing new of any real value. They have lost technological control of their flagship OS win10 and stumble from one tech failure to the next. Large enterprises (I know at least one Fortune 100 that plans to do this) plan to not ever move to win10, but move to a web-client and at least seriously consider dropping MS Office as well in the process. And the stock becomes more valuable? Are these morons creating the next big bubble?
Depends on the numbers and the details. Usually these world-improvers are bright eyed hacks that get it wrong and make things worse, sometimes massively so.
Sure, where these are not native, eliminating them not too long after they turn up is probably not going to kill anything else. But where they are native, somethings will hunt them and they may have other functions. In the worst case, you get a chain reaction and a lot of things change. This may well make the situation worse.
I am wondering the same thing. I think management at MS may stupidly believe that having the source code is the same as having expertise how everything works. This would nicely explain why they add features like mad, but have serious issues finding and fixing problems. Of course, adding features makes the whole mess worse....
"Useful idiots" is the key term here. One characteristic of these morons is that they basically are too stupid to ever realize what they are doing to themselves. Dunning and Kruger describe this effect nicely.
We will see. Possibly. But since nobody in the West is doing this type research, it is kind of hard to be sure. But even if it is fake, the reactions to the news will be very interesting.
The Chinese recently let it be known that they will now start respect and enforce IP laws. That means they are in the process of moving beyond stealing because they are overtaking the west. The west has gotten fat, lazy, stupid and only interested in its own, homemade problems. Not saying the Chinese model of modern society is something to aspire to (I do not think so, the "social score" idea is right out of a 3rd Reich playbook...), but it is something that seems to begin to work and produce results. And that makes the failure of the west even more of a problem.
The MAC does not help you a lot though. Also, it can be changed easily in many circumstances. I demonstrated this a while a while ago for a customer by putting a socketed flash chip on a network card. More visually impressive than the alternatives and I had a slow weekend. But in many cards you can just change the MAC purely in software.
Funny, how people "pray" for things. It is like they are still small children and hope some parent will magically make it happen. Not something that is in any way a sign of sanity in anybody supposedly an adult.
Oh, sure, you and I will eventually die and what comes after is open to speculation. But we will have made far more of our time here than that AC moron could ever hope to.
Automatic updates are, in principle, not much of a problem. I have run Debian (w/o systemd) with automatic updates every 3 days for about 15 years now, both desktop and server, with one real problem in the whole time. Sure, major version updates are still manual, but everything else is not. In addition, I have some of my own boot-scripts in there and use self-compiled custom kernels. So this can be done reliably even with no-so-standard configurations.
The problem here is that MS cannot support this model, as their product is far too badly made and they do not have the technological expertise to stay on top of things. In addition, they are slowly becoming less relevant (mostly because of Android) and seem to be somewhat panicked, with one bad decision following another and UI changes (WTF? Who wants UI changes? This is a tool!) that are supposed to "revolutionize" things, but in reality just make things worse.
As in they have managed to make it complex enough and have sacked or driven away enough good engineers that they really cannot make work well anymore. Sure, windows never worked very well, but this is a new quality of bad.
Now, what do you do when you stupidly have let one OS maker get a quasi-monopoly and that maker loses it?
At this time, probably. In the future, however, electric cars are a lot easier to build than conventional ones and need a lot fewer workers to build them, because they are much simpler mechanically.
Oh, the factories stay open. And they will even produce (eventually) the same number of cars. It is just the jobs that go away. Of course, somebody like Trump, that never had to work a single day in his, life will not understand that little difference.
The folks that voted Trump mostly f***** themselves with a wire-brush. It is really tragic. But it is not a new phenomenon. Desperate people will believe every liar that promises them to make tings better. Very human and very stupid.
We have been designing parallel algorithms for 40 years now, because it was always clear that multi-core will eventually be the only way to scale and because we have had massive parallel systems for about that long. What we have is hence the results from intensive studies. It is not much. It is likely close to what we will have long-term.
Hence our "current" algorithms very much include parallel ones. If you think that we do not have more good parallel algorithms is a result from too little research, you are very much mistaken.
Since parallel architectures have been studied for a long, long time (anybody remember Transputers?), we do know that most things do not really benefit from more cores. The thing were they do best is server loads with lot of independent tasks being run. But most standard stuff does not benefit a lot or not at all. In addition, most coders cannot do multi-threaded software, as that is a lot harder than it looks. Deadlocks, races, etc. are not fun and testing loses effectiveness fast.
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Watson does not "know" anything. All it can do is a very limited semantic pattern matching on natural language. Hence it will just be putting out the same insane crap that the natural born idiots do.
I thing HR basically uses natural stupidity. Although, unlike AI, Artificial Stupidity is something that seems very much possible at this time and is already in use in some places.
The medical one failed pretty spectacularly, with Watson recommending treatments that would have killed people, as far as I remember. I also know of an attempt to use in in IT security, but basically it ended up being a kind of news-compiler.
Seems to me that while Watson is a nice demonstration about the state-of-the-art in NLP, that state is still sorely lacking and may continue to sorely lack for a long, long time and possibly forever. (And don't give me that nonsense that "science" would be claiming humans are just computers on legs because everything is known Physics. Science claims no such thing. Science very much says that we have no clue how humans do it. Incidentally, known Physics is known to be wrong, unless somebody solved quantum-gravity while I was not looking.)
No. We have about no examples were a severe infectious disease is critical for an ecosystem. They are nit parasites, where that is different. They are basically biological free-riders. Also, it is very easy to reintroduce that disease in case something begins to really break. Of course, that is not something you tell the public.
You seem to be mistaken about where you are. This is /., not a scientific review committee. The Polio example is still extremely obviously (and extremely obviously back then) something completely different. Makes me think you lack the background to understand what is going on here.
I am an atheist, but thanks.
The Australians also messed up badly with Rabbits.
The point is not to not do these things, but to be very, very careful. I doubt Google was ever really careful in anything they do. Too much intelligence and money, not a lot of wisdom.
a) The people doing that were definitely not bright-eyed hacks.
b) Nothing else depends on Polio and Smallpox being there. Eradicating a disease and eradicating a species are two very different things.
Knowledge on your side needed, not a citation.
Clearly MS is in steep decline. They have nothing new of any real value. They have lost technological control of their flagship OS win10 and stumble from one tech failure to the next. Large enterprises (I know at least one Fortune 100 that plans to do this) plan to not ever move to win10, but move to a web-client and at least seriously consider dropping MS Office as well in the process. And the stock becomes more valuable? Are these morons creating the next big bubble?
Depends on the numbers and the details. Usually these world-improvers are bright eyed hacks that get it wrong and make things worse, sometimes massively so.
Sure, where these are not native, eliminating them not too long after they turn up is probably not going to kill anything else. But where they are native, somethings will hunt them and they may have other functions. In the worst case, you get a chain reaction and a lot of things change. This may well make the situation worse.
Common sense. Look it up. It is not that common, unfortunately.
I am wondering the same thing. I think management at MS may stupidly believe that having the source code is the same as having expertise how everything works. This would nicely explain why they add features like mad, but have serious issues finding and fixing problems. Of course, adding features makes the whole mess worse....
"Useful idiots" is the key term here. One characteristic of these morons is that they basically are too stupid to ever realize what they are doing to themselves. Dunning and Kruger describe this effect nicely.
We will see. Possibly. But since nobody in the West is doing this type research, it is kind of hard to be sure. But even if it is fake, the reactions to the news will be very interesting.
The Chinese recently let it be known that they will now start respect and enforce IP laws. That means they are in the process of moving beyond stealing because they are overtaking the west. The west has gotten fat, lazy, stupid and only interested in its own, homemade problems. Not saying the Chinese model of modern society is something to aspire to (I do not think so, the "social score" idea is right out of a 3rd Reich playbook...), but it is something that seems to begin to work and produce results. And that makes the failure of the west even more of a problem.
The MAC does not help you a lot though. Also, it can be changed easily in many circumstances. I demonstrated this a while a while ago for a customer by putting a socketed flash chip on a network card. More visually impressive than the alternatives and I had a slow weekend. But in many cards you can just change the MAC purely in software.
Indeed. And since responsibility is probably the main difference between an adult and a child, these people are children in adult bodies.
Funny, how people "pray" for things. It is like they are still small children and hope some parent will magically make it happen. Not something that is in any way a sign of sanity in anybody supposedly an adult.
Oh, sure, you and I will eventually die and what comes after is open to speculation. But we will have made far more of our time here than that AC moron could ever hope to.
Automatic updates are, in principle, not much of a problem. I have run Debian (w/o systemd) with automatic updates every 3 days for about 15 years now, both desktop and server, with one real problem in the whole time. Sure, major version updates are still manual, but everything else is not. In addition, I have some of my own boot-scripts in there and use self-compiled custom kernels. So this can be done reliably even with no-so-standard configurations.
The problem here is that MS cannot support this model, as their product is far too badly made and they do not have the technological expertise to stay on top of things. In addition, they are slowly becoming less relevant (mostly because of Android) and seem to be somewhat panicked, with one bad decision following another and UI changes (WTF? Who wants UI changes? This is a tool!) that are supposed to "revolutionize" things, but in reality just make things worse.
As in they have managed to make it complex enough and have sacked or driven away enough good engineers that they really cannot make work well anymore. Sure, windows never worked very well, but this is a new quality of bad.
Now, what do you do when you stupidly have let one OS maker get a quasi-monopoly and that maker loses it?
At this time, probably. In the future, however, electric cars are a lot easier to build than conventional ones and need a lot fewer workers to build them, because they are much simpler mechanically.
Oh, the factories stay open. And they will even produce (eventually) the same number of cars. It is just the jobs that go away. Of course, somebody like Trump, that never had to work a single day in his, life will not understand that little difference.
The folks that voted Trump mostly f***** themselves with a wire-brush. It is really tragic. But it is not a new phenomenon. Desperate people will believe every liar that promises them to make tings better. Very human and very stupid.
We have been designing parallel algorithms for 40 years now, because it was always clear that multi-core will eventually be the only way to scale and because we have had massive parallel systems for about that long. What we have is hence the results from intensive studies. It is not much. It is likely close to what we will have long-term.
Hence our "current" algorithms very much include parallel ones. If you think that we do not have more good parallel algorithms is a result from too little research, you are very much mistaken.
Since parallel architectures have been studied for a long, long time (anybody remember Transputers?), we do know that most things do not really benefit from more cores. The thing were they do best is server loads with lot of independent tasks being run. But most standard stuff does not benefit a lot or not at all. In addition, most coders cannot do multi-threaded software, as that is a lot harder than it looks. Deadlocks, races, etc. are not fun and testing loses effectiveness fast.