Smart and gifted kid? Shove them to the back of the class. Oh that not so bright kid that can run and catch really good? he is a superstar!

We worship the Low IQ and brawn. (NFL players for example) while ridicule anyone smart. It is a culture thing, and in inner city urban cultures being a smart kid get's you isolated badly as your peers try to make you feel as if you are a traitor.

It has always been this way, on top of that Teachers are scared to death of kids that are smarter than them, and will punish the smart kid. Our education system is set up for average and can not handle the two sides of the bell.

No it's not. business owners need to be forced to pay honest wages. Paying people wages that are so low that you can not live even in a squalor home is dishonest (minimum wages below $10 an hour)

Then you get even more dishonest business owners that pay their book keeper $12-14 an hour. That person went to fucking college and just because she is a woman you think you can pay her a pittance? Sorry, but being a business owner is not about being rich, it's about following a dream and making a living. you DO NOT forsake your employees so you can live more comfortably.

Right now the environment is ripe for employee abuse and has been for the past 10 years. Luckily I work for a guy that treats the employees right. he lives like the rest of us do, he gives guys raises every 6 months and even gives us all a profit sharing bonus every year 2 weeks before Christmas.

Want a good corperate example of Greed? Comcast.

Comcast has so much money they want to buy Time Warner.. WTF? why not put that money into Comcast and upgrade service and infrastructure as well as employee pay levels for the bottom 90% in the company? Every single customer of comcast's HATES the company, the quality of service, and the quality of the product. I have never found anyone that has said "I love comcast, they have the perfect everything!" The only reason they make money is they hold monopolies in 99% of their markets.

Fix the infrastructure, fix the service, fix your employees, fix the business. THAT is honest business, not what corporate america is doing.

"Almost everyone advances; the gap grows ever larger. It has always been this way; likely it will always be so."
Until the gap becomes very wide, then the poor kill all the rich, loot their estates and the cycle repeats.

Give it another 10 years and the gap will be getting near the,"let's form an angry mob and kill the rich guy, we can feed the whole city off of what is in his house."

Then you're not actually reading the timeline. AI is not a Scotsman. I am looking at the well known sub-field of computer science known as Artificial Intelligence. I am not the first to observe that anything from that field, once working well is no longer commonly considered to be AI.

Go ahead, look those guys up. Expert systems were very much considered AI when they were invented in 1965. By the '80s they actually worked and were no longer considered AI. Playing checkers USED to be thought of as AI. Not any more, probably because it works well and can be found in a child's toy.

We will never know if a computer has achieved what you call 'true AI' we can only observe it's behavior and guess. Certainly I have met people that lead me to wonder in the other direction. Philosophers have questioned our ability to know if sentience exists at all for that matter.

If you give it some thought, you'll realize that you don't actually have a good testable definition of what you consider 'real AI' at all. If I'm wrong, write that paper now, your Nobel awaits!

I suspect though, that you simply lack perspective. There was a time when grown adults commonly believed computers were thinking simply because someone (not them, of course, it took a high level wizard) could type something to the computer and it would type back an appropriate response. The field of AI had somewhat higher standards.

Right, because they were working by then. Look back further, the world existed long before the '80s.

Have a look at this timeline. YES! All of those things were once considered to be the domain of AI. Consider how each of those things that are commonplace today are no longer thought of as AI.

Are they still likely to be driven to eat 70 years after their death? Are they vampires?

I'm not so sure even the big money projects would be harmed. Even the mega budget buster films either make a profit within 10 years or they never do (I mean an actual profit, not the Hollywood accounting where no movie has ever managed to break even).

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I skipped college personally. However, it has apparently gotten harder and harder to work one's way through college these days. Tuition has gone up a lot faster than wages.

Expert systems were considered to be very much the domain of AI until they started working.

Dogs have a non-zero intelligence and all they can say is woof.

It's all part of a long con to convince the middle class that their interests align with the rich so they'll vote against their own best interest.

It is a Robin Hood style situation. The corrupt sheriff was stealing from the poor to enrich himself and his cronies.

The rich have been waging class warfare for quite a while now. It is anything but unprovoked if the poor (and former middle class) fight back.

For example, we might try hand waving until we can fly with the pigs...

But conveniently leaving the people in his category of rich alone. Again, if you cannot just quit working tomorrow and never worry about how much money you have left, you are working class.

Actually, according to most of the world, STEM is working class. You don't get to rich until you can just stop working tomorrow and never worry about needs for the rest of your life. (Indeed, in many cases passive income will keep coming in so your grandchildren will be rich too).

Many CEOs could do just that nad live a middle class lifestyle AND leave their kids enough that they don't have to work either.

You are the victim of propaganda meant to convince you that your fortunes lie closer to Bill Gates than a Starbuck's barista so you won't vote against the interests of the rich. It seems to have worked very well so far.

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You should try leaving your gated community once in a while.