We know what AI means in the industry today. It means machine-learning of some sorts - putting together a parameterized classifier, training those parameters against a training data-set, and then running it against real-world input. Yes there is considerable work needed to figure out what precise things to classify, what kind of parameterized classifier to use, and to gather the training data-set. Yes it is indeed very different from coding a classification algorithm directly. Yes it will be used in impactful ways. No it's not what we colloquially refer to as "intelligence". Yes it will have blind spots that can be gamed.
Please, I'm so tired of reading posts saying "this isn't really artificial intelligence" when we're all aware of what the industry jargon means, and all aware of the utility and limitations of the current approaches.
Output: Terrorist detected, dispatching the killbot.
The government has finally realized that they can automate some of their most atrocious bureaucracy.
Technically, you are using "automate" word correctly. However, in this context automate does not mean streamline or simplify. No, it means that AI will be used to come up with new forms, checklists, and to drive the process. You, my dear friend, will still have to suffer in queues, waiting list, fill pointless forms, and provide supporting evidence in triplicate to various agencies.
Actually, most IoT devices are Linux based with a bunch of other OSS bundled in. Why Linux? Because it is free. These IoTs are prone to hacks because they are misconfigured by default, have hard coded credentials, or never patched against known vulnerabilities.
That is, in 2018 MS has nothing to do with IoT problems... other than ancient Windows XP systems that still sometimes can be found in airports and voting machines. Technically these are now classified as IoT, but they predate the term.
While 80s came and gone, for some reason special exceptions for software still commonplace. For some reason negligence is acceptable behavior in IT and CS.
Your views fail to account for externalizing costs of bad security. Your lack of security is also resulted in a botnet used to attack me. So if you get hacked, and your IoT junk is used to attack me, then you also should be liable for this attack. Only this could be considered a coherent libertarian view.
However, this is rather draconian and could end up ruining you. Instead, mandating baseline level of security and on-going support is by far less intrusive and disruptive approach.
The real best way to annoy SJW is to simply not be racist or sexist.
Sadly, this is not true. Evergreen College clearly demonstrated that "not racist" has no meaningful scope, SJWs there took it all the way to blatant anti-white racism and objecting to that was still called racist.
We have a catastrophic shortage of telephone sanitizers, I propose we make it mandatory class in all high schools.
CS is a dead-end career (here goes my karma) in 2018 - too easy to outsource to India, too easy to automate or third-party OS all but most in-depth components. Sure, there always going to be shortage of good full-stack architects, like there will always be shortage of NBA superstars. However, going into basketball professionally is a horrible idea for 99.99% of people out there.
People adjusting their privacy settings are in denial, not only we have multiple accounts (i.e. Google and location data) where these are disregarded, we also have multiple hacking stories (i.e. Ashley Madison breach) that show that data is always retained even when consumers are told it is not.
These companies are not going to voluntarily stop collecting data on you no matter what settings you use.
I never expected to have to say this, but MS under Ballmer was a lot less evil than what exists today. Ballmer never attempted to have Windows spy on consumers for profit.
Block-chain based calculations should be another factor in the Drake Equation, as wasting all energy on something like bitcoin would explain civilization's lack of efforts to communicate.
I refuse to believe that Russians are smarter than Americans.
They are not, as many bought into Putin's propaganda machine after he consolidated control of the Russia's public media through a group of allied oligarchs.
What at play here is timescales. It took Russian people couple generations and insurmountable evidence to stop believing in future communism. If USSR's central planning wasn't quite as mismanaging and stagnant, if the overall system wasn't quite as stifling it is likely that USSR would still exist as a country today. Communist Party of China still going strong, and they are rooted in the same idea and form of governance.
The reason they did this is because it slows performance to what I would call a painful crawl. I would post the benchmarks to quantify and prove it but it's not allowed.
Painful crawl is slightly faster than a standstill, and slightly slower than molasses slow. So you did benchmark it and violated the agreement.
Well, we know someone associated with DNC or their providers managed to detect one possible attack. This does not mean that other attacks were unsuccessful, and considering DNC track record my money would be that they are getting hacked every other day and just don't know about it.
Well, being had by these isn't binary and there are progressive levels of loss of privacy. There are extreme cases that are worthwhile avoiding, such as leaking location data, associations, medical history.
Google knows relatively little about me, I don't have Android or any Google apps, I use multiple search engines, and I don't generally over-share online.
Facebook is not inciting violence. What you are seeing is an unintended side effect of people having, for the first time in human history, the ability to instantly communicate with millions of other people, allowing then to speak out against things going on in the world that they are unhappy about, such as civilized countries being overrun with third world filth.
Ability to voice normally unspoken opinions is only part of this, but it is a minor one. FB emboldens people by giving them a sense of false consensus. All humans are social animals, and would not normally act on believes that are not supported by the community. For example, nudism. It isn't accepted by society as a whole and as a consequence nudists are not going nude in public outside designated areas. However, if they were mislead to believe that nudism is widely acceptable, you might see groups of them marching nude.
TL;DR FB fault is providing isolation bubbles that mislead people into thinking there is a consent of their fringe belief.
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We know what AI means in the industry today. It means machine-learning of some sorts - putting together a parameterized classifier, training those parameters against a training data-set, and then running it against real-world input. Yes there is considerable work needed to figure out what precise things to classify, what kind of parameterized classifier to use, and to gather the training data-set. Yes it is indeed very different from coding a classification algorithm directly. Yes it will be used in impactful ways. No it's not what we colloquially refer to as "intelligence". Yes it will have blind spots that can be gamed.
Please, I'm so tired of reading posts saying "this isn't really artificial intelligence" when we're all aware of what the industry jargon means, and all aware of the utility and limitations of the current approaches.
Output: Terrorist detected, dispatching the killbot.
The government has finally realized that they can automate some of their most atrocious bureaucracy.
Technically, you are using "automate" word correctly. However, in this context automate does not mean streamline or simplify. No, it means that AI will be used to come up with new forms, checklists, and to drive the process. You, my dear friend, will still have to suffer in queues, waiting list, fill pointless forms, and provide supporting evidence in triplicate to various agencies.
Actually, most IoT devices are Linux based with a bunch of other OSS bundled in. Why Linux? Because it is free. These IoTs are prone to hacks because they are misconfigured by default, have hard coded credentials, or never patched against known vulnerabilities.
That is, in 2018 MS has nothing to do with IoT problems... other than ancient Windows XP systems that still sometimes can be found in airports and voting machines. Technically these are now classified as IoT, but they predate the term.
If you don't mind computers and software (each) cost about as much as a car, go ahead.
Can you explain what is gained by having cheap insecure computers everywhere?
Because software...
While 80s came and gone, for some reason special exceptions for software still commonplace. For some reason negligence is acceptable behavior in IT and CS.
Your views fail to account for externalizing costs of bad security. Your lack of security is also resulted in a botnet used to attack me. So if you get hacked, and your IoT junk is used to attack me, then you also should be liable for this attack. Only this could be considered a coherent libertarian view.
However, this is rather draconian and could end up ruining you. Instead, mandating baseline level of security and on-going support is by far less intrusive and disruptive approach.
If someone could make EVE more grindy, it would be a Korean MMO maker. I don't see them misunderstanding that aspect, as they invented Korean Grinder.
The real best way to annoy SJW is to simply not be racist or sexist.
Sadly, this is not true. Evergreen College clearly demonstrated that "not racist" has no meaningful scope, SJWs there took it all the way to blatant anti-white racism and objecting to that was still called racist.
It is identity politics all the way down.
Oh no, someone mentioned skin color. Racist! Racist! Racist.
Burn the Witch!
We have a catastrophic shortage of telephone sanitizers, I propose we make it mandatory class in all high schools.
CS is a dead-end career (here goes my karma) in 2018 - too easy to outsource to India, too easy to automate or third-party OS all but most in-depth components. Sure, there always going to be shortage of good full-stack architects, like there will always be shortage of NBA superstars. However, going into basketball professionally is a horrible idea for 99.99% of people out there.
People adjusting their privacy settings are in denial, not only we have multiple accounts (i.e. Google and location data) where these are disregarded, we also have multiple hacking stories (i.e. Ashley Madison breach) that show that data is always retained even when consumers are told it is not.
These companies are not going to voluntarily stop collecting data on you no matter what settings you use.
I never expected to have to say this, but MS under Ballmer was a lot less evil than what exists today. Ballmer never attempted to have Windows spy on consumers for profit.
Don't duck his questions.
It is not acceptable for Google that some browsing bypasses Google search engine when people directly type in URLs.
Block-chain based calculations should be another factor in the Drake Equation, as wasting all energy on something like bitcoin would explain civilization's lack of efforts to communicate.
I asked her to check out the Load of the Rings
When I watched it on PornHub I did not expect there to be a book version.
I refuse to believe that Russians are smarter than Americans.
They are not, as many bought into Putin's propaganda machine after he consolidated control of the Russia's public media through a group of allied oligarchs.
What at play here is timescales. It took Russian people couple generations and insurmountable evidence to stop believing in future communism. If USSR's central planning wasn't quite as mismanaging and stagnant, if the overall system wasn't quite as stifling it is likely that USSR would still exist as a country today. Communist Party of China still going strong, and they are rooted in the same idea and form of governance.
Couldn't the shooter at least pick a decent game to go on a killing spree over?
The reason they did this is because it slows performance to what I would call a painful crawl. I would post the benchmarks to quantify and prove it but it's not allowed.
Painful crawl is slightly faster than a standstill, and slightly slower than molasses slow. So you did benchmark it and violated the agreement.
You are assuming they read the click-through agreement.
Well, we know someone associated with DNC or their providers managed to detect one possible attack. This does not mean that other attacks were unsuccessful, and considering DNC track record my money would be that they are getting hacked every other day and just don't know about it.
Well, being had by these isn't binary and there are progressive levels of loss of privacy. There are extreme cases that are worthwhile avoiding, such as leaking location data, associations, medical history.
Google knows relatively little about me, I don't have Android or any Google apps, I use multiple search engines, and I don't generally over-share online.
Communist Party of China and Google wants you! Enlist now.
Native Windows 10 notifications is a plague and another way to spam the user. Worse than pop-ups.
Facebook is not inciting violence. What you are seeing is an unintended side effect of people having, for the first time in human history, the ability to instantly communicate with millions of other people, allowing then to speak out against things going on in the world that they are unhappy about, such as civilized countries being overrun with third world filth.
Ability to voice normally unspoken opinions is only part of this, but it is a minor one. FB emboldens people by giving them a sense of false consensus. All humans are social animals, and would not normally act on believes that are not supported by the community. For example, nudism. It isn't accepted by society as a whole and as a consequence nudists are not going nude in public outside designated areas. However, if they were mislead to believe that nudism is widely acceptable, you might see groups of them marching nude.
TL;DR FB fault is providing isolation bubbles that mislead people into thinking there is a consent of their fringe belief.