So if Mr Colbert had been lounging at a piano in a tuxedo a la Noel Coward and languidly drawled, "The only thing President Trump's mouth is good for, is as a place for Vladimir Putin to park his genital member", then that would have been okay?
They remind me of literary magazines. First issue is announced in a blaze of publicity, second issue is lame in comparison and there's rarely a third. Someone with a lot more spare time than me could put together a huge chart of Ai initiatives, with startup money available on the Y-axis and how long it lasted on the X.
First, robots will not be stealing jobs, tech will create more than it takes...
Tell that to the eight hundred or so data entry clerks who weren't needed to scan forms or correct scan errors when the Australian Bureau of Statistics decided to do the 2016 census online. In fact, tell that to me, because I was one of them.
This could work. We'd need some form of Great Convention that carefully describes the limits of what is and what isn't a robot - is an alarm clock a robot? Is a washing machine? How about a lawn sprinkler system with a timer? Elevators? Coffee Machines? Snack dispensers? How much automation is permitted in factory machinery? Can this process be regulated by a sensor and a timer, or is that a robot too? Do they have to hire a guy with an egg-timer to stand there and throw a lever instead?
Having made this distinction, businesses will then crowd up against either side of this imaginary barrier; on one side, engineers simplifying systems until they are no longer sufficiently robotic to be taxed, and on the other side Servok craftsmen pushing the limits of the Great Convention up to where their mechanisms might be taxed. There would be jobs for assessors, there would be jobs for screaming torch-bearing mobs chanting "THOU SHALT NOT BUILD A MACHINE IN THE LIKENESS OF THE HUMAN SOUL!" as they drag computers and programmers alike from their offices and destroy them.
It might not make a great novel in itself, but it'd be good background material for one.
A Dyson ring is a good compromise to building a Dyson sphere - uses less material, lower construction costs. Even easier is the Dyson lump. Also known as a planet.
And by tying in facial recognition and other AI, it will be possible to make all kinda of inferences and connections and store all kinds of data about what normal citizens are doing.
No. We are nowhere near hard AI. We are nowhere near soft AI.
However, if people pretend we already have AI (or if we simply lower the bar a lot), that's almost as good as having it. Just like having a photoshopped "diegetic prototype" is almost as good as having a schematic plan for a real device, when it comes to snowing the investors.
I like being able to enlarge the text without having to buy a large-print edition, if it exists. Moving my nose closer to the page just makes it harder to focus, before anyone suggests what Lister suggested to Kryten.
how about "vandalize"? load the robots up with delicate parts that don't do anything but which snap off at the slightest pressure, then sue anyone who gets drunk and damages them. if you can get drunken idiots to pay up, that could be a real money-spinner.
We're qualified to judge. Personally, I will be more impressed with Dr Canavero when he starts talking about the amazing things he's done, and less about the amazing and Headline-grabbing things he claims that he's going to do.
Those jobs will be replaced by thousands of well-paying jobs in IT, programming, design, manufacturing, and maintenance, filled by educated Americans that pay more in taxes than they require in services.
All of those well-paying IT jobs are being automated, too. Does anyone remember the name of that guy who suggested there was a natural progression from blue-collar labor, to IT maintenance, to programming, then to accountancy and then to theoretical mathematics? As if mathematician was the highest calling there is.
He's off to college next year, and I doubt a robot will be taking his job.
I'm sure someone could invent a robot that smokes weed, listens to Ween, sleeps in until three in the afternoon and then gets online to beg for help writing that essay that's due tomorrow.
Now I have this vision of a battalion of chromed-skeleton terminators, grinning evilly, moving from tree to tree, scanning the fruit with the same assembler routines they used to track Sarah Connor and then gently twisting the almost-ripe apples from the branch and carefully placing them in a basket. With that sinister music playing.
because somebody was stupid enough to decide that nobody could live longer than 110, despite evidence to the contrary, and they were stupid enough to include that limit in their software in such a way that couldn't be easily modified.
This is one of many reasons the cloud makes a terrible backup. The US government may confiscate your legal data during an investigation, and it takes years before they return it.
Exactly! People, keep your backups on a thumbdrive, so that the police can confiscate it instead.
It is my limited understanding that the offspring gets part of their basic immune system from the mother while in utero. I didn't see any mention of where these lambs got theirs, if they have any.
If they're going to spend their brief lives in a steel box before being prepped for someone else's dinner, I guess an immune system doesn't matter that much.
Hanging out for a variant that moves from the HD to the SSD to avoid virus scans, and back. I'm not really hanging out for it, but I expect it, because if it's even remotely possible, some twit will do it.
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They were silly. The obvious solution is to mount the engines on the icebergs.
So if Mr Colbert had been lounging at a piano in a tuxedo a la Noel Coward and languidly drawled, "The only thing President Trump's mouth is good for, is as a place for Vladimir Putin to park his genital member", then that would have been okay?
We could also train our corporations on how to combat espionage..
Do you want a cyberpunk dystopia? Because that's how you get a cyberpunk dystopia.
billions of my tax dollars went into making these things possible.
My god, you must be either the richest person on slashdot, or you have the worst tax accountant.
...I have a fuckton of plans I've been considering making with Jasper, but holding off in case something better came along.
Would one of those projects be "make the LED blink"?
They remind me of literary magazines. First issue is announced in a blaze of publicity, second issue is lame in comparison and there's rarely a third. Someone with a lot more spare time than me could put together a huge chart of Ai initiatives, with startup money available on the Y-axis and how long it lasted on the X.
First, robots will not be stealing jobs, tech will create more than it takes...
Tell that to the eight hundred or so data entry clerks who weren't needed to scan forms or correct scan errors when the Australian Bureau of Statistics decided to do the 2016 census online. In fact, tell that to me, because I was one of them.
This could work. We'd need some form of Great Convention that carefully describes the limits of what is and what isn't a robot - is an alarm clock a robot? Is a washing machine? How about a lawn sprinkler system with a timer? Elevators? Coffee Machines? Snack dispensers? How much automation is permitted in factory machinery? Can this process be regulated by a sensor and a timer, or is that a robot too? Do they have to hire a guy with an egg-timer to stand there and throw a lever instead?
Having made this distinction, businesses will then crowd up against either side of this imaginary barrier; on one side, engineers simplifying systems until they are no longer sufficiently robotic to be taxed, and on the other side Servok craftsmen pushing the limits of the Great Convention up to where their mechanisms might be taxed. There would be jobs for assessors, there would be jobs for screaming torch-bearing mobs chanting "THOU SHALT NOT BUILD A MACHINE IN THE LIKENESS OF THE HUMAN SOUL!" as they drag computers and programmers alike from their offices and destroy them.
It might not make a great novel in itself, but it'd be good background material for one.
A Dyson ring is a good compromise to building a Dyson sphere - uses less material, lower construction costs. Even easier is the Dyson lump. Also known as a planet.
And by tying in facial recognition and other AI, it will be possible to make all kinda of inferences and connections and store all kinds of data about what normal citizens are doing.
Anyone who suffers from Resting Bitchface had better stay home. http://www.urbandictionary.com...
"How do you know she is a witch?
"She looks like one!"
No. We are nowhere near hard AI. We are nowhere near soft AI.
However, if people pretend we already have AI (or if we simply lower the bar a lot), that's almost as good as having it. Just like having a photoshopped "diegetic prototype" is almost as good as having a schematic plan for a real device, when it comes to snowing the investors.
... so if you have smartphones taped to the underside of the toilet it's probably time to detox.
I haven't tried, but I expect that taping them to the underside of the toilet would make them awfully hard to read.
I like being able to enlarge the text without having to buy a large-print edition, if it exists. Moving my nose closer to the page just makes it harder to focus, before anyone suggests what Lister suggested to Kryten.
"ill-intensioned" ? Maybe just upset to lose their income to a robot ...
Who's going to pay a robot to be a drunken idiot that goes around harassing other robots?
how about "vandalize"? load the robots up with delicate parts that don't do anything but which snap off at the slightest pressure, then sue anyone who gets drunk and damages them. if you can get drunken idiots to pay up, that could be a real money-spinner.
We're qualified to judge. Personally, I will be more impressed with Dr Canavero when he starts talking about the amazing things he's done, and less about the amazing and Headline-grabbing things he claims that he's going to do.
Those jobs will be replaced by thousands of well-paying jobs in IT, programming, design, manufacturing, and maintenance, filled by educated Americans that pay more in taxes than they require in services.
All of those well-paying IT jobs are being automated, too. Does anyone remember the name of that guy who suggested there was a natural progression from blue-collar labor, to IT maintenance, to programming, then to accountancy and then to theoretical mathematics? As if mathematician was the highest calling there is.
He's off to college next year, and I doubt a robot will be taking his job.
I'm sure someone could invent a robot that smokes weed, listens to Ween, sleeps in until three in the afternoon and then gets online to beg for help writing that essay that's due tomorrow.
Now I have this vision of a battalion of chromed-skeleton terminators, grinning evilly, moving from tree to tree, scanning the fruit with the same assembler routines they used to track Sarah Connor and then gently twisting the almost-ripe apples from the branch and carefully placing them in a basket. With that sinister music playing.
because somebody was stupid enough to decide that nobody could live longer than 110, despite evidence to the contrary, and they were stupid enough to include that limit in their software in such a way that couldn't be easily modified.
Atomic powered rockets! it seems obvious that will come one day or the other. Just read Heinlein.
Not the one with the spooky, wet implied-lesbian who was a puddle of alien liquid. The episode after that.
This is one of many reasons the cloud makes a terrible backup. The US government may confiscate your legal data during an investigation, and it takes years before they return it.
Exactly! People, keep your backups on a thumbdrive, so that the police can confiscate it instead.
If they're going to spend their brief lives in a steel box before being prepped for someone else's dinner, I guess an immune system doesn't matter that much.
Hanging out for a variant that moves from the HD to the SSD to avoid virus scans, and back. I'm not really hanging out for it, but I expect it, because if it's even remotely possible, some twit will do it.