Well, in Australia certainly not because the ballot count is supervised by scrutineers, and they communicate totals back to there candidates independently from the government. There is no way things could not add up.
(The senate is a different issue, nobody really knows how that is supposed to be counted so the result is a mystery to all.)
Sure there are problems, but the mainstream news has proven to be fairly reliable over the years, most of the time. You would not believe rumours on social media that Bush was responsible for 9/11 because of that.
The problem for China is that once they cripple official sources of news, rumours become much, much more credible. Denials or ignoring of them by state media is meaningless. They potentially make the problem much worse.
Except that most Chinese, even more so than Americans, are sheep. With a few wolves among them.
It is extremely unlikely that a 1kg drone would down an airplane. And if the pilots are looking out the window they should see it in any case, so a collision is very unlikely in the first place. And there are birds up there too, many of which are bigger than most drones.
And yes, I am an amateur pilot, mostly gliders. Keeping good lookout is essential and normal. I have also been attacked by an eagle, which was concerning but in my glider I am much bigger than it.
It would be a high priority to look for vehicles crossing unexpectedly. That is a major cause of accidents. And not that hard to do with just stereo vision.
However, the article contains no useful information. Did the AutoPilot actually see it? Did it interpret it correctly? Did it try to slow down at all? At what point after the truck started moving (but before it entered the other road) did the AutoPilot react?
Those are the critical questions.
I think it would be safe to assume that the auto pilot did slow down once the truck was in front of the car, but that, of course, would be too late.
Well said. My daughters already cannot live without their iphones.
And what will ultimately drive the development of AI? The same force that drives human intelligence. Natural selection. But an AI is very different to an animal.
The AI will be the system that controls us. This is already happening in a very limited way, with many agencies using pretty unintelligent systems to scan and select documents and images. You do too -- every time you use a search engine.
Over time (decades, not years) these systems become more and more intelligent. They also compete with each other for survival, with many being discarded. Eventually they end up making higher level decisions.
It does not matter whether they are really "sentient" or not. What matters is how powerful they become. Initially in partnership with the people that control them, then less and less so.
Called the "Living Wage", introduced long ago. Includes free medical, and free schools that are not too bad even in poor areas. And overtime pays more.
Hasn't destroyed the economy. Unemployment low. Although crappy hamburgers might be slightly more expensive.
We have some problems with long term unemployed, especially Aborigines. But none of the working poor that the US has.
C / C++ are far worse languages than VB6. No garbage collection, not even a real concept of an array. Every other line a potential buffer overflow. And older than VB6.
But people continue to use this archaic technology today, despite it being so unproductive. That is because of legacy and inertia. And most C / C++ programmers do not even realize how bad it is.
VB6 is not that bad for what it is used for. Efficiency is not so important. It has features like keyword parameters that are Still not in C++. And ti is certainly much, much more productive than C/ C++..Net is better and has modern compilers that produce code that is often better than C / C++. But it is also a huge monster. And not actually much more productive for simple business apps.
The big one is Excel. Microsoft would love to kill of VBA that is in it. But as a professional developer, I can an VBA ap going much quicker than a.Net one. And end users have no hope of dealing with.Net deployment issues.
This sounds like yet another C/++ bug. Who would have imagined that in 2016 people still write code in a programming language so crude it does not even have a concept of an array, and hence bounds checking.
The myth of root is just that. The days of lots of people sharing the one client computer are long gone. For PCs, most of the good stuff is accessible in user mode. All the documents, email etc.
5) Once you get technical enough to transmit radio, it is only a few hundred or possibly thousand years before total extinction. That is a tiny time period in which to find a signal.
Don't worry. By then the automated soldiers will be able to stem the violence. And more importantly central control will know everything about everybody.
All will be good... until the AI decides that it does not need the property owners...
+1. Changing infrastructure is already happening. Framing for new homes is generally constructed off site, which is ripe for (even more) automation.
It will be a long time before a general maintenance plumber is replaced. But what about a bricklayer on a new building site where things are controlled. Or a painter.
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Your first paragraph reads like a sales blurb for the machines. It does not imply the second paragraph.
Well, in Australia certainly not because the ballot count is supervised by scrutineers, and they communicate totals back to there candidates independently from the government. There is no way things could not add up.
(The senate is a different issue, nobody really knows how that is supposed to be counted so the result is a mystery to all.)
Sure there are problems, but the mainstream news has proven to be fairly reliable over the years, most of the time. You would not believe rumours on social media that Bush was responsible for 9/11 because of that.
The problem for China is that once they cripple official sources of news, rumours become much, much more credible. Denials or ignoring of them by state media is meaningless. They potentially make the problem much worse.
Except that most Chinese, even more so than Americans, are sheep. With a few wolves among them.
It is extremely unlikely that a 1kg drone would down an airplane. And if the pilots are looking out the window they should see it in any case, so a collision is very unlikely in the first place. And there are birds up there too, many of which are bigger than most drones.
And yes, I am an amateur pilot, mostly gliders. Keeping good lookout is essential and normal. I have also been attacked by an eagle, which was concerning but in my glider I am much bigger than it.
It used to be that people got sick so that doctors could get paid.
Now people get sick so that IT consultants can get their finger in the pie. And what a fat pie it is.
As an IT consultant, the more confused the billing system is the better.
It would be a high priority to look for vehicles crossing unexpectedly. That is a major cause of accidents. And not that hard to do with just stereo vision.
However, the article contains no useful information. Did the AutoPilot actually see it? Did it interpret it correctly? Did it try to slow down at all? At what point after the truck started moving (but before it entered the other road) did the AutoPilot react?
Those are the critical questions.
I think it would be safe to assume that the auto pilot did slow down once the truck was in front of the car, but that, of course, would be too late.
+1. I was going to say that myself.
The obvious way to prevent terrorism within airports is to have the TSA set up a check point outside the airport and create the large queue there.
Well said. My daughters already cannot live without their iphones.
And what will ultimately drive the development of AI? The same force that drives human intelligence. Natural selection. But an AI is very different to an animal.
http://www.computersthink.com/
The thinking of and AI will be driven by the same process that produced the thinking in us. Natural selection.
But an AI's world is radically different from ours. So the force will almost certainly produce a radically different outcome.
http://www.computersthink.com/
The AI will be the system that controls us. This is already happening in a very limited way, with many agencies using pretty unintelligent systems to scan and select documents and images. You do too -- every time you use a search engine.
Over time (decades, not years) these systems become more and more intelligent. They also compete with each other for survival, with many being discarded. Eventually they end up making higher level decisions.
It does not matter whether they are really "sentient" or not. What matters is how powerful they become. Initially in partnership with the people that control them, then less and less so.
See
http://www.computersthink.com/
It is a great way to make money. Find out something about a company, sort the stock, and the broadcast. Or just make something up.
This is the one area that that supports whistle blowers. If the NSA was a company, Snowden could be rich.
Called the "Living Wage", introduced long ago. Includes free medical, and free schools that are not too bad even in poor areas. And overtime pays more.
Hasn't destroyed the economy. Unemployment low. Although crappy hamburgers might be slightly more expensive.
We have some problems with long term unemployed, especially Aborigines. But none of the working poor that the US has.
Because it has static typing. End of story.
There is indeed a lot of inertia.
C / C++ are far worse languages than VB6. No garbage collection, not even a real concept of an array. Every other line a potential buffer overflow. And older than VB6.
But people continue to use this archaic technology today, despite it being so unproductive. That is because of legacy and inertia. And most C / C++ programmers do not even realize how bad it is.
VB6 is not that bad for what it is used for. Efficiency is not so important. It has features like keyword parameters that are Still not in C++. And ti is certainly much, much more productive than C/ C++. .Net is better and has modern compilers that produce code that is often better than C / C++. But it is also a huge monster. And not actually much more productive for simple business apps.
The big one is Excel. Microsoft would love to kill of VBA that is in it. But as a professional developer, I can an VBA ap going much quicker than a .Net one. And end users have no hope of dealing with .Net deployment issues.
That is how a real TA would have responded. I wonder how JW id?
Indeed, the use of JW tells us a lot about the quality of the answers the human TAs were giving!
This sounds like yet another C/++ bug. Who would have imagined that in 2016 people still write code in a programming language so crude it does not even have a concept of an array, and hence bounds checking.
The myth of root is just that. The days of lots of people sharing the one client computer are long gone. For PCs, most of the good stuff is accessible in user mode. All the documents, email etc.
+1. Now that Google is run by MBAs instead of engineers.
Well, there might not be any evidence to support your "well known" theory. Indeed much research to show the opposite.
But there is plenty of evidence that "Tough on Crime" does work very well ... for the people that make money out of the prison system.
Daming rivers is always cheap for power. There must be another big one hiding in those British hills somewhere...
5) Once you get technical enough to transmit radio, it is only a few hundred or possibly thousand years before total extinction. That is a tiny time period in which to find a signal.
Don't worry. By then the automated soldiers will be able to stem the violence. And more importantly central control will know everything about everybody.
All will be good ... until the AI decides that it does not need the property owners...
You might like
http://www.computersthink.com/
And because they do not exist today they never will exist.
+1. Changing infrastructure is already happening. Framing for new homes is generally constructed off site, which is ripe for (even more) automation.
It will be a long time before a general maintenance plumber is replaced. But what about a bricklayer on a new building site where things are controlled. Or a painter.
You might enjoy
http://www.computersthink.com/
What makes you think that the computers would want a few remaining people about?
http://www.computersthink.com/