Hollywood has set the bar so low you'd need trenching equipment not to clear it.
the bar as always been low.
old farts (like me) do this thing where they remember only the good movies from their childhood. across a lifetime there are many memorable movies. movies were better when i was young! what they don't remember are the thousands of duds, of course, because they weren't memorable movies.
The doom and gloom scenarios all hinge on this idea that the AI is going to be so much smarter and more powerful than we are. That's where it's dipping way into just crazy speculation. Based on what we know about intelligent beings, the system is full of flaws that slow everything down.
it's not like we have to build AI from the ground up. we have a prototype already. it's called the brain. your brain is just a meat processor. it's a system of cells, interconnections, chemicals, and electric pulses. all of that can be modeled in software, and run a million times faster, run itself in parallel, interface with other electronic systems in vastly superior ways, nearly limitless, perfect storage, and so on.
For all we know
think about what humanity knew 100 years ago, and what they know now. no one is saying absolutely AI will threaten humanity. people are suggesting it might, and considering the stakes, we should be proceed with caution.
I'd wager the first truly sentient AI's will be quite a bit duller
one idea is that once software can improve itself things will go from 0-60 very quickly. that's why people suggest we need a plan before even the dullest AIs are developed.
unless you actually fucking MADE it evil.
did you mean "made to do harm"? people do and will continue to make machines that do harm, and if giving them some semblance of "AI" makes them more effective, they will do it. people are "evil", and we build machines to help us do our bidding. i hope that humans aren't in conflict with other humans in 200 years, but i doubt it.
where i come from, discussing and addressing problems before they are a threat is a good idea.
did we learn anything from global warming? we denied that up to the point where it's essentially too late. would have been good to be talking about global warming a hundred years ago wouldn't it have? humans need to get accustomed to looking at the big picture if we are to survive.
malice
malice isn't a requirement to do harm. in fact, indifference is more dangerous.
yes, worrying about AI that might be a threat in 500 years is like worrying about the Sun burning out in 5 billion years. good point. we should also stop talking about global warming while we are at it.
We cannot build a computer that can model a bug's brain activity, let alone something a million times more complicated like a human brain
http://www.futurity.org/why-ar...
rather, once we are able to model any nervous system we are well one the way,
AI do not exists
thanks, we know that, but we are concerned about what could happen when they do.
you think it's absolutely impossible that could be achieved in say the next 500 years, considering what humans have accomplished in the last 100?
nope, it's just raising your hand
In the same way my microwave oven has never attempted to secede from the prison of my kitchen and lead a revolutionary army against the great oppressor "he who warms up leftovers". It simply does exactly what it is told to do.
well, 2 points,
1. the very first application of AI will be military. it will be written from day one to harm people, directly or indirectly. consumer application will come much, much later.
2. regardless, malicious people will subvert AI for nefarious purposes, unless it's tightly controlled.
But at least there is the *possibility* of getting a patch if Google makes one. Without that, no chance!
"If the affected version [of WebView] is before 4.4, we generally do not develop the patches ourselves, but welcome patches with the report for consideration."
p.s., TFA's use of [of WebView] in the brackets is wrong. Google mans the version of Android. WebView doesn't have a version itself, it's part of Android.
I hold Google accountable, as well as the handset manufacturers.
you should hold the carriers accountable. they are the ones that make it an incredible pain in the ass to get a new firmware pushed.
The reason is, AI will have no 'motivation'.
resource allocation? why burn the world's dwindling supply of fossil fuels to heat and cool humans' homes, when it can be used to pump extra gigawatts into powering and cooling massive processor arrays?
it has no sense of self-preservation, , which is an emotion.
self preservation is not an emotion. almost (all?) living things attempt to preserve themselves. regardless, software will do exactly what it's coded to do. if it's coded for self preservation, it will do that.
a standard-issue "thug" (representing any malicious party) can also use that ID to verify that the votes went to their preferred candidates
that thug could also threaten to kill your family if you don't come out of the polling place with photo evidence of your vote for the the desired candidate.
if you introduce violence, intimidation, and physical coercion into the equation all bets are off. no system is going to beat that.
that, and just because average joe citizen is forced to have a 10. address doesn't mean that there aren't other high bandwidth pipes reserved for close friends of the Dear Leader.
North Korean government is really an organized criminal syndicate with a huge military and slave labor base
that describes most governments.
i read quite a lot of this topic, and i didn't see anyone calling for islam to be outlawed. maybe i missed it. but anyway, i don't feel that way, and i've never spoken to, or read anyone with that opinion.
the problem is this: not all, not even a majority, but a significant percent of muslims don't condemn terror. they would never participate. they'd never publicly support it. but in their bedrooms at night when it's dark, they sympathize. these people don't pressure their governments about the problem, and the governments then either let them exist or put half-hearted efforts toward stopping terror.
google for the polls. here's one,
http://www.thereligionofpeace....
and another,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
