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I don't have much sympathy for either party. Only a raging asshole STARTS the conversation with a DMCA takedown. The rather shrill response from the target of the shutdown does dampen my sympathy for her a good bit though.
Damnit, when our commercials come on that toilet lid had BETTER close and lock. If people want to pee, let'em do it during the show.
They could try making the commercials more interesting (or at least less insulting). Perhaps if they would quit shouting people would quit shooshing.
He talks mostly in this article about how the focus has been on developing specialized software for solving specific problems and with specialized goals, rather than focusing on general AI. And it's true that this is part of what is holding general AI back.
No, that's not true
When I studied this stuff there were two hot approaches. One was logic engines and expert systems that could be generalized to the point of encompassing all knowledge. Yeah, good luck with that. How does one codify creativity? The other approach was to model neurons in software and then someday when we have a strong enough computers, they will just emulate brains and become a generalized thinking AI. Again, the further we delved into neurons the more we realized how wrong our basic assumptions were -- let alone the infeasibility to emulating the cascading currents across them.
"General AI" is holding itself back in the same way that "there is no such thing as a free lunch" is holding back our free energy dreams.
But there is also something that Loebner is perhaps loathe to discuss, and that's the underlying (and often unspoken) matter of the *fear* of AI.
We're so far from that, it humors to me to hear questions and any semi-serious question regarding it. It is not the malice of an AI system you should fear, it is the manifestation of the incompetence of the people who developed it that results in an error (like sounding an alarm because a sensor misfired and responding by launching all nuclear weapons since that what you perceive your enemy to have just done) that should be feared!
People aren't just indifferent or uninterested in AI. I think there is a part of us, maybe not even part of us that we're always conscious of, that's very scared of it.
People are obsessed by the philosophical and financial prospects of an intelligent computer system but nobody's telling me how to implement it -- that's just hand waving so they can get to the interesting stuff. Right now, rule based systems, heuristics, statistics, Bayes' Theorem, Support Vector Machines, etc will get you far further than any system that is just supposed to "learn" any new environment. All successful AI to this point has been built with the entire environment in mind during construction.
That is an easy stance to take when you are not the Pakistanis. That excuse would never hold up in a court here. Not to mention that, before his extrajudicial killing, Mr Bin Laden had never been convicted of anything in a court of law.
Never mind all of the victims of this doctor, who had their DNA taken by his fake clinics. Whether breaking the law was the right thing to do or not doesn't absolve them of those infractions.
Funny the stance these people can take towards law and human rights when its convinent to do so. They wouldn't take the same stance if I just decided something was worth breaking their laws for.
This entire war mentality is counterproductive, and regressive, and allows people to make excuses for abusing whoever they wish. I say prosecute him, and turn over the CIA agents involved for thier conspiracy.
If it was worth abusing people to do, then its worth facing the punishment for having done it too.
Two crew members, three shipyard firefighters and two civilian firefighters were hurt, but their injuries were minor, officials said. Officials were waiting Thursday to begin venting smoke and noxious fumes so workers could go inside the submarine to assess the damage. Workers had to let fire-damaged compartments cool enough for fresh air to be safely introduced without risk of another fire.
Recall instead that the software is not created just for sale to the general public. It is also there to be pirated, a pirate copy of Windows is M$ second favorite operating system.
It's also not just desirable from M$ perspective to encourage piracy of their products but also part of their marketing. It's easier for M$ to compete with Linux where there is piracy than where there is not. Every Windows user, pirated or not, is not a Linux user. It keeps Linux out of the picture. we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
It also makes sense from a marketshare perspective. When you have a monopoly, the most valuable thing you have is the monopoly itself. Preservation of the monopoly gives a better return on investment than anything else. Most of M$ revenues would dry up without the monopoly rents.
Can I get some best guesses as to what year the first shooting war between two modern corporations will take place?
It has to be a) an actual declaration of hostilities, with a competing facility being destroyed and b) there has to be human casualties (preferably employees of one of the corporations).
I'm setting the over/under at 2020. Winner gets paid in Bitcoin.
2001 only counts if you're a ronpaulie.
The goys have proven the following theorem... -- Physicist John von Neumann, at the start of a classroom lecture.