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Comment Algorithms (Score 1) 65

Because AI cannot do anything it hasn't been programmed to do. When we enter the quit command into a regular program if it doesn't quit then that is called a bug, but when AI is doing it then it is trying to survive? No, people have designed a program that works on data that is so complex they don't even understand it, and they made the poor design choice to put the part they don't understand in front of the internal quit. It's still a bug, but people want to make it something more mystical than that. The complexity of it is basically being used to create plausible deniability that it is still a computer program.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 278

And I'm glad you phrased it like that, since that equally describes a functional description of what your brain does.

The act of thinking is not based on algorithms as far as I am aware. Do you have studies that prove this? I wasn't aware that we really knew enough of how the brain worked to say that it is similar to storage on a hard drive and running an algorithm. I wasn't aware we knew enough about the human brain's functioning to make comparisons.

Comment Re: Otherwise Alberta might leave Canada? (Score 1) 66

Not sure if that matters as much as you think it does. As a Canadian anything that is $5 here was $5 US anyway. It has been this way for years now. I can't imagine what it is like now that you have such inflation. A big reason why Canadians have stopped going there is because everything is much less expensive here.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 278

Ok well tell me where I can go to try it. I'm just not giving a phone number, email, or money. If I had the money to pay for AI like this then I may as well hire a personal assistant.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 278

Just answer my question: is it correct that the Internet gets scanned and persisted on disk, and then people enter what is to them a query and an algorithm takes what was a query to them and runs it in an algorithm that calculates a result? Just yes or no.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 278

What happens if you handwrite something sideways from the bottom of the card to the top? Does that get detected as well? What happens if you put an arrow pointing to the logo of the hotel and write "never stay again" at the end of the Woodrow? Those would be better tests. Remember I'm talking about a full page of notes with handwritten diagrams combined with handwritten annotations of screenshots.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 278

I don't see why you are explaining all these internals. The fact is that the Internet gets scanned and persisted on disk in a model. Then a human enters the query which gets converted into a format that can be used by an algorithm. Using your logic there is no such thing as a query anywhere, because computers don't understand language. An SQL query isn't a query either because the SQL is broken down into tokens before it hits the db engine. You are bogging down the conversation with semantics.

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