We live in a rural area where our only available internet connection is by way of satellite. One result is that no location service ever knows where we are. They will think we are in California one minute and Ohio the next. If I understand this new technology correctly, this might hamper our use of services such as Netflix.
After Google was fined billions of dollars for giving free apps to Europeans, Google has agreed to stop being so evil. Google will now charge Europeans for the apps. Other providers of free stuff for Europeans should take note and begin charging.
"Every major university is wrestling with how to adapt to the technology wave of artificial intelligence -- how to prepare students not only to harness the powerful tools of A.I., but also to thoughtfully weigh its ethical and social implications."
Given that the so-called social "sciences" are motived primarily by ideology and less so by a quest for truth, I suspect that the primary purpose of the effort is to "educate" young professionals entering the AI field in their "social responsibilities."
The anger should not be a matter of concern and should be ignored.
If asked what he thinks about the matter, Zuckerberg should say "But I don't think about it."
I remember when America Online was making it impossible for anyone else to compete. Today, Apple makes it impossible for makers of flip phones to compete. Thank the gods for that!
Google, Facebook, etc are spending billions of their own shareholder's money to give them a good return on their investment. This is exactly what they should be doing and they should be praised for their success. These corporations profit by providing services for which people clamor. They make our lives better. Hopefully, they and other mega-corporations will continue to do so long into the future.
If you want to compete you need to have a good product that people prefer over the offerings of other competitors. There is no reason to get upset over such a state of affairs.
Previous plans for towing icebergs have involved surrounding them with a skirt once it arrives at its destination. As the iceberg melts, the lighter fresh water floats on top of the heavier salt water,forcing the sea water out the bottom of the skirt. The skirt would have to extend high enough above sea level to keep the pressure of the heavier sea water on the sides of the skirt from squeezing the fresh water out the top, like squeezing tooth paste out of a tube.
Thanks for the clarification on the campus location. So it is unfortunate land use planning, then. I suspected the heavy hand of government--the usual suspect when supply and demand are out of whack.
This is very odd. Most universities are surrounded by scores of apartment buildings. And if real estate is too expensive close to campus, there are usually lots of apartment buildings further away but with shuttle buses to campus. When demand is high, supply increases to fill the demand. This is how capitalism works. Why is capitalism not working in Silicon Valley? Why are developers not flooding into the area to build lots of rental units? Perhaps the university should focus on answering that question. I suspect they employ a few economists.
If this can be done to providers of digital media, what is to stop it being done to brick and mortar bookshops? Will Lower Slobovia demand bookstores to fill 40% of its shelf space with Lower Slobovian authors? This would not be very popular with the bookshop owners. And it would not necessarily be applauded by their customers either.
New wealth does not "get created" out of thin air. Someone created it.
This is the evasion at the root of the "guaranteed income" scheme.
An AI is a machine. If a person uses machines to create wealth, then that person created the wealth and the wealth belongs to that person. To consider only the fact that the wealth "gets created" but not the fact that it is created by "someone" is to evade the fact that one is advocating the theft and redistribution of wealth.
This scheme has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. It is the same ancient desire to live at the expense of other, more productive people. So move along, nothing new to see here, just the same old envy and avarice which has plagued mankind from the beginning.
More people will be working out of their own home and will not need a car for a daily commute to work. Already, Walmart and other grocery stores will deliver your groceries. Very soon, the cost of owning a personal automobile--car payments, insurance, taxes, maintenance, repairs, etc--will be much higher than using Uber or Lyft for local travel and car rental for out of town travel. And the Uber, Lyft and rental cars will be self-driving (like the old days when the horse knew the way home.)
This is just one datum, but when my mother had her heart attack the emergency room doctor did not believe her when she said she was having a heart attack. He told her she was having a gall bladder attack. She told him her gallbladder had been removed years earlier. He ignored her.
Four hours later she went code blue and had to be defibrillated. Only then did the doctor believe her. She survived but lived her remaining two years as an invalid.
Perhaps a female doctor would have listened to her and administered an anti-clotting agent at some point during those four hours.
We do not have to choose between a guaranteed job or a guaranteed income. It is a false alternative based upon false expectations--the expectation that mankind will run out of opportunities for productive work.
Furthermore, both alternatives violate actual rights in order to manufacture fake rights. We have the right to work to produce the values our lives require and this right comes from no government. We have the right to keep or trade the product of our labor and no one has the right to take it from us in order to pay someone a guaranteed income or to pay them to work at a fake job.
There are too many fake jobs already, especially the "jobs" currently being done by whoever dreams up such Orwellian alternatives as "guaranteed job" or "guaranteed income."
It's one thing to be downvoted by faceless strangers who mean zilch to you. But to be downvoted by a Facebook friend is a personal affront. Friends will unfriend friends and people will become disgusted and leave. This is probably a good thing for those still using Facebook since they can re-engage with more meaningful activities. But it will be bad for Facebook stockholders. This is a dumb move by Facebook.
I have worked in both environments. In a closed office environment, many face-to-face conversations are of a personal nature. Furthermore, when you have privacy, you are more likely to share criticisms of policies, managers, and co-workers. This is one reason managers like open office environments. Open offices make it harder for employees be candid in their interactions with other employees.
Ancient builders knew how to use 5-12-13 and 3-4-5 triangles to make square corners. No one knows how ancient this knowledge is. But it does not imply knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem. Pythagoras was the first to give a geometric proof of the principle behind these two triangles. It is unknown whether ancient builders knew or cared why these particular triangles produced a square corner. To claim that these ancient builders knew about the Pythagorean principle is unwarranted.
It was already known from the six-week test involving 200 people that more people on the drug died than people on placebo.
The choices facing the families of people with this fatal disease were (1) let them possibly live a bit longer but while suffering psychosis or (2) risk an earlier death but without suffering psychosis.
Shouldn't the families be allowed to make such a choice rather than have the choice forced upon them by a government bureaucrat?
For 18 years I have kept a Windows partition on my Linux box for one reason only: to file my income tax once a year. Neither H&R Block nor TaxCut software runs on wine. Same with Crossover. Unless you want to fill out your returns by hand and mail them it, you MUST use Windows or Macintosh to file your taxes. And you know what happens when you boot into Windows after a year--updates.:O
No government has any business interfering with private internet service providers. This means no subsidies, no restrictions on entry and no dictations of policy. Governments have only one job--protecting rights by punishing those who violate rights and by adjudicating disputes. Unless an internet service provider is defrauding its customers or initiating force against competitors, etc. no government has any right to dictate how they operate.
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We live in a rural area where our only available internet connection is by way of satellite. One result is that no location service ever knows where we are. They will think we are in California one minute and Ohio the next. If I understand this new technology correctly, this might hamper our use of services such as Netflix.
After Google was fined billions of dollars for giving free apps to Europeans, Google has agreed to stop being so evil.
Google will now charge Europeans for the apps.
Other providers of free stuff for Europeans should take note and begin charging.
My general policy is "Don't feed trolls." But I cannot help but wonder if Anonymous Coward is someone who has been "educated" by social "scientists."
"Every major university is wrestling with how to adapt to the technology wave of artificial intelligence -- how to prepare students not only to harness the powerful tools of A.I., but also to thoughtfully weigh its ethical and social implications."
Given that the so-called social "sciences" are motived primarily by ideology and less so by a quest for truth, I suspect that the primary purpose of the effort is to "educate" young professionals entering the AI field in their "social responsibilities."
The anger should not be a matter of concern and should be ignored.
If asked what he thinks about the matter, Zuckerberg should say "But I don't think about it."
Too many drivers adjust the side mirrors to give essentially the same view as the rearview mirror. Doing so creates blind spots.
Side mirrors should be adjusted to give a good view of cars approaching in the side lanes or driving in the side lane outside one's peripheral vision.
I remember when America Online was making it impossible for anyone else to compete. Today, Apple makes it impossible for makers of flip phones to compete. Thank the gods for that!
Google, Facebook, etc are spending billions of their own shareholder's money to give them a good return on their investment. This is exactly what they should be doing and they should be praised for their success. These corporations profit by providing services for which people clamor. They make our lives better. Hopefully, they and other mega-corporations will continue to do so long into the future.
If you want to compete you need to have a good product that people prefer over the offerings of other competitors. There is no reason to get upset over such a state of affairs.
Previous plans for towing icebergs have involved surrounding them with a skirt once it arrives at its destination. As the iceberg melts, the lighter fresh water floats on top of the heavier salt water,forcing the sea water out the bottom of the skirt. The skirt would have to extend high enough above sea level to keep the pressure of the heavier sea water on the sides of the skirt from squeezing the fresh water out the top, like squeezing tooth paste out of a tube.
Thanks for the clarification on the campus location. So it is unfortunate land use planning, then. I suspected the heavy hand of government--the usual suspect when supply and demand are out of whack.
This is very odd. Most universities are surrounded by scores of apartment buildings. And if real estate is too expensive close to campus, there are usually lots of apartment buildings further away but with shuttle buses to campus.
When demand is high, supply increases to fill the demand. This is how capitalism works. Why is capitalism not working in Silicon Valley? Why are developers not flooding into the area to build lots of rental units? Perhaps the university should focus on answering that question. I suspect they employ a few economists.
If this can be done to providers of digital media, what is to stop it being done to brick and mortar bookshops?
Will Lower Slobovia demand bookstores to fill 40% of its shelf space with Lower Slobovian authors? This would not be very popular with the bookshop owners. And it would not necessarily be applauded by their customers either.
New wealth does not "get created" out of thin air. Someone created it.
This is the evasion at the root of the "guaranteed income" scheme.
An AI is a machine. If a person uses machines to create wealth, then that person created the wealth and the wealth belongs to that person. To consider only the fact that the wealth "gets created" but not the fact that it is created by "someone" is to evade the fact that one is advocating the theft and redistribution of wealth.
This scheme has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. It is the same ancient desire to live at the expense of other, more productive people. So move along, nothing new to see here, just the same old envy and avarice which has plagued mankind from the beginning.
More people will be working out of their own home and will not need a car for a daily commute to work. Already, Walmart and other grocery stores will deliver your groceries. Very soon, the cost of owning a personal automobile--car payments, insurance, taxes, maintenance, repairs, etc--will be much higher than using Uber or Lyft for local travel and car rental for out of town travel. And the Uber, Lyft and rental cars will be self-driving (like the old days when the horse knew the way home.)
This is just one datum, but when my mother had her heart attack the emergency room doctor did not believe her when she said she was having a heart attack. He told her she was having a gall bladder attack. She told him her gallbladder had been removed years earlier. He ignored her.
Four hours later she went code blue and had to be defibrillated. Only then did the doctor believe her. She survived but lived her remaining two years as an invalid.
Perhaps a female doctor would have listened to her and administered an anti-clotting agent at some point during those four hours.
We do not have to choose between a guaranteed job or a guaranteed income. It is a false alternative based upon false expectations--the expectation that mankind will run out of opportunities for productive work.
Furthermore, both alternatives violate actual rights in order to manufacture fake rights. We have the right to work to produce the values our lives require and this right comes from no government. We have the right to keep or trade the product of our labor and no one has the right to take it from us in order to pay someone a guaranteed income or to pay them to work at a fake job.
There are too many fake jobs already, especially the "jobs" currently being done by whoever dreams up such Orwellian alternatives as "guaranteed job" or "guaranteed income."
It's one thing to be downvoted by faceless strangers who mean zilch to you. But to be downvoted by a Facebook friend is a personal affront. Friends will unfriend friends and people will become disgusted and leave. This is probably a good thing for those still using Facebook since they can re-engage with more meaningful activities. But it will be bad for Facebook stockholders. This is a dumb move by Facebook.
That's one of the thousands of things that governments have no business doing. It's just a drop in the ocean.
Hopefully, other things such as air traffic control will be privatized next. They are still using 1960's technology for Christ's sake.
I have worked in both environments. In a closed office environment, many face-to-face conversations are of a personal nature. Furthermore, when you have privacy, you are more likely to share criticisms of policies, managers, and co-workers. This is one reason managers like open office environments. Open offices make it harder for employees be candid in their interactions with other employees.
Ancient builders knew how to use 5-12-13 and 3-4-5 triangles to make square corners. No one knows how ancient this knowledge is. But it does not imply knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem. Pythagoras was the first to give a geometric proof of the principle behind these two triangles. It is unknown whether ancient builders knew or cared why these particular triangles produced a square corner. To claim that these ancient builders knew about the Pythagorean principle is unwarranted.
I said "Hey Google, congratulations on being smarter than Alexa."
Google Assistant responded "My apologies, I don't understand."
Perhaps Google engineers can help their assistant come up with a snappier reply.
It was already known from the six-week test involving 200 people that more people on the drug died than people on placebo.
The choices facing the families of people with this fatal disease were (1) let them possibly live a bit longer but while suffering psychosis or (2) risk an earlier death but without suffering psychosis.
Shouldn't the families be allowed to make such a choice rather than have the choice forced upon them by a government bureaucrat?
It's called disruptive innovation and its good for the US.
It warms my heart to see the good guys put one over on the bad guys.
For 18 years I have kept a Windows partition on my Linux box for one reason only: to file my income tax once a year. Neither H&R Block nor TaxCut software runs on wine. Same with Crossover. Unless you want to fill out your returns by hand and mail them it, you MUST use Windows or Macintosh to file your taxes. And you know what happens when you boot into Windows after a year--updates. :O
No government has any business interfering with private internet service providers. This means no subsidies, no restrictions on entry and no dictations of policy. Governments have only one job--protecting rights by punishing those who violate rights and by adjudicating disputes. Unless an internet service provider is defrauding its customers or initiating force against competitors, etc. no government has any right to dictate how they operate.