Yeah, it's weird that this is being bragged about, considering Demis Hassabis and DeepMind trained their game-playing AI so that the only input it received was the pixels on-screen. You'd think advances in game-playing / learning AI would build on top of that, not go backwards.
For anyone who hasn't seen this yet, here's footage of some of the technology behind DeepMind's AlphaGo (the AI that beat Lee Sedol at Go last year) learning to play old arcade games, eventually becoming superhuman at them. I jumped ahead to right before the demo: https://youtu.be/rbsqaJwpu6A?t...
But we know that it does exist, because we experience it.
Considering the fact that defining "consciousness" is proving very slippery, I'd say it's a big assumption to say that we know it exists, considering we can't even agree on what we mean by "it."
So what does that tell us? That we need to abandon the notion that empiricism is the end-all-be-all of understanding, for one.
And another big assumption. Just because we can't define consciousness yet doesn't mean we can't subject whatever it is (if it exists) to empirical tests. We simply don't know yet. Just because we don't know something now doesn't mean we never will. It's too early to invoke hand-waving.
I take it you haven't seen Humans Need Not Apply? It's a good 15-minute overview of the coming automation boom, and explains why the jobs that are going to be lost won't be coming back, and the people who lose them won't necessarily find something new to do for work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yep. I've been using the same black and white laser printer for 11 years now. On top of that, it's still using.... *drumroll*... the same cartridge it originally came with. I haven't had to replace it yet. Insanity.
Of course, as others have said, people don't print nearly as much these days, which explains the long life. But I've always preferred lasers to inkjets. No nozzle cleaning, no warmup.
This is for training. Once the training is done, the model can be used in a cell phone.
Case in point, voice recognition.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't voice recognition performed by the cloud? The phone simply records and transmits your voice to the cloud for processing.
My money's on the idea that our universe is just an incubator for new life. A nursery. Stars are heat lamps, planets are nests, etc. Eventually, technological civilizations grow out of childhood, learn enough about their surroundings to realize there's much more out there, and their tech develops enough to let them escape and join the party outside the universe, where all the other super-old civilizations are.
Crazy rambling, I know, but it's a good seed for ideas.
It seems to me to be a rather empty existence if you define your worth by nothing but what you make [...] if your definition of self is only in what you make, then what does that really say? What is the point?
You get a measure of immortality. (If you're good enough at whatever it is you do, and enough people know about it or buy it.)
I just watched the whole thing. It's a feature on the potential of music videos and the viability of videodiscs (large optical (?) discs containing mostly music videos). The report starts off with some worry over a slump in the music industry, and briefly mentions home taping, but that's one of the few times it's ever mentioned. The entire rest of the report talks about what these new-fangled "music videos" are, and whether videodiscs can ever take off, considering people's limited patience for watching a few minutes of video over and over and over. It's interesting in its own right, but this Slashdot story is completely misleading. If the music industry is "worried" about a few seconds (literally) of incidental hand-wringing buried in a longer report about something else entirely from 30 years ago, these people are insane.
The GP brings up a legitimate concern. Preview needs to fix this. Your alternatives are kinda clunky and impractical. I don't mean to get snotty, but who modded this up?
I use a popular freeware image viewer called Xee. Does exactly what I need it to.
Reminds me of the early 1900s, when live orchestras would play during silent movies. Along came recorded movie sound, and thus pre-recorded musical scores to accompany them, and the musicians protested this invasion and the loss of their jobs. I was trying to find an entry about it on the Paleo Future blog, can't seem to.
I couldn't help being reminded of Civil Protection's technology in Half-Life 2. If you've played even the very first level, you'll remember the flying scanners that strobe you and take your picture: http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/City_Scanner
I suppose the drones described in the story are a combination of those scanners and Manhacks, except the drones probably can't fly too low. Of course, with miniaturization...
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Yeah, it's weird that this is being bragged about, considering Demis Hassabis and DeepMind trained their game-playing AI so that the only input it received was the pixels on-screen. You'd think advances in game-playing / learning AI would build on top of that, not go backwards.
For anyone who hasn't seen this yet, here's footage of some of the technology behind DeepMind's AlphaGo (the AI that beat Lee Sedol at Go last year) learning to play old arcade games, eventually becoming superhuman at them. I jumped ahead to right before the demo: https://youtu.be/rbsqaJwpu6A?t...
It just occurred to me how appropriate New Zealand's name might be in this context: it's a New Sea-Land.
But we know that it does exist, because we experience it.
Considering the fact that defining "consciousness" is proving very slippery, I'd say it's a big assumption to say that we know it exists, considering we can't even agree on what we mean by "it."
So what does that tell us? That we need to abandon the notion that empiricism is the end-all-be-all of understanding, for one.
And another big assumption. Just because we can't define consciousness yet doesn't mean we can't subject whatever it is (if it exists) to empirical tests. We simply don't know yet. Just because we don't know something now doesn't mean we never will. It's too early to invoke hand-waving.
I vaguely remember buying somewhere between 2 and 500,000 PCs in that time period. To be safe, I'll claim the 500,000.
Um, holy shit?
I LOLed.
This is hilarious, regardless of anyone's politics. Why was it downvoted into oblivion? Modders can be capricious and unfair sometimes.
I take it you haven't seen Humans Need Not Apply? It's a good 15-minute overview of the coming automation boom, and explains why the jobs that are going to be lost won't be coming back, and the people who lose them won't necessarily find something new to do for work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yep. I've been using the same black and white laser printer for 11 years now. On top of that, it's still using .... *drumroll* ... the same cartridge it originally came with. I haven't had to replace it yet. Insanity.
Of course, as others have said, people don't print nearly as much these days, which explains the long life. But I've always preferred lasers to inkjets. No nozzle cleaning, no warmup.
FWIW, it's a cheapo HP.
Large but very dim, eh? I submit that these galaxies are composed primarily of your momma.
This is for training. Once the training is done, the model can be used in a cell phone.
Case in point, voice recognition.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't voice recognition performed by the cloud? The phone simply records and transmits your voice to the cloud for processing.
My money's on the idea that our universe is just an incubator for new life. A nursery. Stars are heat lamps, planets are nests, etc. Eventually, technological civilizations grow out of childhood, learn enough about their surroundings to realize there's much more out there, and their tech develops enough to let them escape and join the party outside the universe, where all the other super-old civilizations are. Crazy rambling, I know, but it's a good seed for ideas.
It seems to me to be a rather empty existence if you define your worth by nothing but what you make [...] if your definition of self is only in what you make, then what does that really say? What is the point?
You get a measure of immortality. (If you're good enough at whatever it is you do, and enough people know about it or buy it.)
One of the best comments I've read on here. Heartwarming.
Epic comment. I approve.
If that is the case, put WIFI on it, and let Rats have a communal memory bank too.
So long, concept of personal identity. I always figured robots would be the ones to have a shared identity. It never occurred to me humans might too.
Who will win control of cyberspace? Will it be Yahoo, Netscape, or America Online?
I just watched the whole thing. It's a feature on the potential of music videos and the viability of videodiscs (large optical (?) discs containing mostly music videos). The report starts off with some worry over a slump in the music industry, and briefly mentions home taping, but that's one of the few times it's ever mentioned. The entire rest of the report talks about what these new-fangled "music videos" are, and whether videodiscs can ever take off, considering people's limited patience for watching a few minutes of video over and over and over. It's interesting in its own right, but this Slashdot story is completely misleading. If the music industry is "worried" about a few seconds (literally) of incidental hand-wringing buried in a longer report about something else entirely from 30 years ago, these people are insane.
Unrealistic.
The GP brings up a legitimate concern. Preview needs to fix this. Your alternatives are kinda clunky and impractical. I don't mean to get snotty, but who modded this up?
I use a popular freeware image viewer called Xee. Does exactly what I need it to.
... the tags being "toy" followed by "story"
Reminds me of the early 1900s, when live orchestras would play during silent movies. Along came recorded movie sound, and thus pre-recorded musical scores to accompany them, and the musicians protested this invasion and the loss of their jobs. I was trying to find an entry about it on the Paleo Future blog, can't seem to.
Now ... we'll just tell them all backwards.
No EMP resistance, less space then a nomad, lame
I wish I could mod this +infinity. Funniest thing I've seen on here in a long time. Well done, sir/ma'am.
I couldn't help being reminded of Civil Protection's technology in Half-Life 2. If you've played even the very first level, you'll remember the flying scanners that strobe you and take your picture: http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/City_Scanner
I suppose the drones described in the story are a combination of those scanners and Manhacks, except the drones probably can't fly too low. Of course, with miniaturization ...