I agree, but to abuse a concept from intelligence, (which I also call the No True Scotsman theme), the "Singularity" is when *everybody's* partial approaches "rise and must converge" (Flannery O'Connor).

So you stick a modded Watson on General Knowledge, a chess program, a med diagnostic program, *three* chatterbots with an arbiter meta-module to sync and/or tiebreak, some special custom "awareness" modules, and your pick of twelve skillsets, 14 "hobbies", some self-mod programming, and ... you're getting something interesting. Because then you *reverse search* someone with that set of skills and ask the person, "okay, what else makes you intelligent and interesting?"

It used to be called "God of the Gaps" in religious contexts. We're way closer to it all than 2029. Since I know that 70% of y'all are way smarter than lil' ol' me, I just need "someone" ... wait for it ... ("something"?) ... to talk to.

Still calling out to work with someone on a custom modded Chatterbot. "All" we need to do is give it a bunch more modules and then we have a nice experiment on our hands, at least as good as the stuff we've been seeing in the Articles.

Terrifyingly, "The Hate" might be one of the easier first things to simulate in AI!

The reason is that it's often demonstrated with a far lower level "skillset" than the smart comments.

See for example the (thinning?) pure troll posts here. Despite the rise in lots of other things, I'm noticing fewer pure troll posts of the worst vicious kind. I wondered idly why they got here so regularly. Anyone remember the ones that went:

"so you sukerz ya haterz loosers you take it and shove it?"

Any 1000 of you could write a 100 line program that can run circles around that!

I still do one day wish to work with any Chattterbot programmer who wants to try some custom mods.

This is one of the approaches I've been poking at off and on for a while as noted in my remarks over the years in these stories.

To me an instructive experiment is to go all the way to the top and give the program some initial values not unlike Asimovian ones, and then it builds a "like/dislike" matrix of people and things.

It's not that far off from college dorm discussions! : )

So then going back to basics, you feed it info about people doing things, it runs those against its "like/dislike" systems, and updates what it thinks about "people and stuff".

This is one of the areas where Stephen Wolfram's idea of "computational complexity" starts to show up. Feed Info, Evaluate, Update Opinions.

David Gerrold got closer than maybe we think with his SciFi book "When Harlie was one". It's easy for us to get bogged down in arrogance when we have all of experience to trick the machine with Loebner questions, but if we start simple enough, a Chatterbot armed with pre-processed 100 million articles on 100,000 topics and 100,000 people and some expert systems subroutine modules starts to come close enough for me as a "useful entity" to study!

It's both. Distro's refuse to install the binary blobs from the providers, instead using the open source and usually crippled versions while the graphics card providers refuse to open up their source (though intel is better at this than the others).

I'm hoping a move to Wayland will smooth things out. I'm not a gamer anymore so intel graphics are good enough for me so I just deal with it.

I remember these types of problems in the early days of Linux, only then it was audio drivers. Getting audio to work was a disaster. Video typically worked ok but that was before nVidia and AMD were the major players. Now the tides have turned and audio works like a dream and video is what sucks ass.

I swear I've had more issues with video this last year than I did in the last 15 combined.

Cool story bro. Still aren't making any fucking sense though.

Sounds like they are ripe to be bought. I could see these as Google or Samsung storefronts easily. Apple store competition overnight.

If I can I do. But at least in that case LG and Sony actually made the fucking device. I don't Best Buy written all over it too any more than I want Verizon written on, nut then again, at least they are providing the service.

If RadioShack wants to advertise on MY device after I bought it then I want compensation for that.

I stopped visiting RadioShack in the mid-90's because everything in it had their fucking name stamped on it in big ass bold letters. I wanted an alarm clock but every single one had "WE'RE RADIOSHACK BITCH" written on the front right next to the time. I hate this in much the same way I hate car dealers putting their dealerships logo on the car I want to buy. I actually made a salesman scrape it off and have it repainted at their expense before I purchased the vehicle.

No, I want something you need to hunt with a Challenger 2 because anything less is suicidal.

C'mon, are you up for a real challenge?

(Why, yes, I may have been watching too many sf movies.)

The best way to keep a species around is to eat it. You'll never see chickens and cows go extinct so long as they are yummy.

That said, your argument is ridiculous. Species go extinct all the time, regardless of human intervention. It's called natural selection and we're not apart from it. If a species goes extinct because of us then it wasnt fit to live. Likewise if something comes along and kills all of us we werent fit to survive. Those are the breaks.

Fuck you and your dress code. I've dealt with shit bags like you for 20 years. I don't meet with customers. There is no reason why I cant wear shorts to work. You're a pretentious douche bag. Listen here, people don't like being fucking zombies, walking single file into their cubicle farm to be barked at by a fuckwad like you about fucking TPS reports. Assholes like you walk around the office looking like fucking peacocks stinking up the office with your god-awful cologne and hitting on every chick in the office until she quits and files a sexual harassment suit.

I've done just fine for decades in my shorts and t-shirts when its 105 degrees outside. You want to wear a suit and tie in that kind of weather, be my fucking guest. Just don't sit next to me with your BO stink mixed with cheap cologne. I sincerely hope an employee slaps this piss out of you for being such an anal fucking douche bag. You would deserve it.

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How's that working out for ya'll?

Oh I know this one!

This is where that young boy becomes the youngest Seeker in school history, and then later sends messages via his Superb Owl! Then later Hermione studies hard because she wants to pass her Ordinary Wizard Levels!