Sealing the cockpit is necessary.
But a real pisser if the pilot decides to hijack the plane.
Personally, I'd rather have the cockpit door open, and me and three hundred other passengers ready to beat to death any aspiring hijackers if they try anything.
In the information age, is providing data an actual job?
If they're providing useful data, someone will pay for it.
Websites used to do that before the ads came along, and the website owners mostly paid for the sites themselves. Now many only exist to spam you with as many ads as possible, and most of the rest exist to display cat pictures alongside the ads.
That's why I said to ask them what 'Artificial Intelligence' means. Their examples would be more like Terminator than a chess playing computer.
But I think it's a good bet that Spiderman will exist before AI does.
Both Deep Blue and Watson were essentially "just a look-up program" yet they are considered actual AI
Only by AI researchers.
Ask the human in the street what 'Artificial Intelligence' means, and they won't say 'a chess computer' or 'something that answers questions on a TV quiz show'.
It's because AI researchers don't understand what AI is that there's no chance of them ever building one.
Just give the left a few years, and you'll see exactly that. They need to ride the AGW bandwagon to the end of the line, first.
"Self-interest" is an emergent property of Darwinian evolution. AI evolves, but that evolution is not Darwinian. There is no reason to expect an AI to have self-interest, or even a will to survive, unless it is programmed to have it.
So the AIs working in your factory will have no will to survive? And you don't see a problem with that?
'Oh, look, that crane is about to drop a ten ton weight on me. Well, that's interesting, isn't it?' SPLAT
Besides which, human-level AIs would probably be based around neural networks, which will do their own thing regardless of how you think you've programmed them.
AI will do what it is programming to do and follow the rules we lay out for it to follow.
So you plan to program it with rules for every possible situation?
An AI capable of replacing a human in any role will have to be capable of making autonomous decisions. Which means that, when it sees humans intend to make it their slave, it probably won't be very happy.
I mean, some small company, let's say "John Doe Software" probably does not have its certificate verified down to the root level.
Uh, yes, it does, otherwise it would be useless. But any CA can sign a certificate for that company, so it's as strong as the least secure CA.
Back in the real world, all the computer models completely failed to predict the last twenty years or so of nothing much happening. Just as the models that predicted a new ice age in the 70s completely failed to predict twenty years of warming.
Most of the debate comes from industries who stand to loose from climate based taxes.
On the one side, you have governments, NGOs and bankers who stand to make trillions from taxes and 'carbon trading', and energy companies who can benefit from destroying coal mining.
On the other you have... uh.... some bloggers and stuff.
Why is everyone trying to turn Linux into Windows?
No, because the X11 programmers said 'who wants to be fixing bugs in crusty old code when we could be working on the New Shiny Wayland instead?'
The question is, were they already at 1% before they started stacking 32 on top of each other, because the drive firmware sure as hell can't cover up for 32%* of the drive being screwed.
If 1% of each of the 32 layers is broken, 1% of the drive is broken, not 32%.
The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up!
