1. "Experiment" was the wrong terminology to use, it's nothing but humor.
2. Don't think of it as writing future headlines, think of it more as writing headlines that "could have occurred" in such and such decade. Like, "here's a joke about headlines on Slashdot in the 90s." You couldn't base a whole tv show on it, of course -- "That Slashdot 90s Show", anyone?
I think we can't have that revolution as long as we all have to work desperately to pay our ever-increasing bills. We have to get off the treadmill before we can take a breath and then start to figure out our next steps.
Right; I agree that at least a cell phone is a necessity, now that payphones are gone; and a smartphone could be considered somewhat of a necessity if there's a chance you'll be lost somewhere since you can no longer just go in a gas station and look up addresses/locations in their phone book; but it's certainly not a necessity to have it with you at all times.
And, if you don't have directions to where you're going, you used to be able to stop at a gas station, borrow a phone book, and look up the address and then consult the included map. Try that now and you will get laughed at. So if you don't have a smartphone, you might want to have a road atlas with you, but good luck finding an address if you don't have that.
Most of the so-called "bodegas", which people call them in common usage, are labeled as "delis" and/or "groceries" in their signage.
Well, surely the goal is for them to have their setup and make money, not *actually* to kill the bodegas. So it can get far and we can all still have our bodegas too.
Okay, yes, agreed there that creativity is not what these algorithms do. And when they try to, they are terrible.
"Most people want to wake up, eat, do something they feel is productive and fun, eat some more and go to sleep comfortably. The vast majority of people will do absolutely nothing to assist with this if it is just handed to them or if they don't feel in control of it." Agree with the first sentence, but not sure about the second sentence. Are you claiming that's what we have now, where we have to have a job and that is the thing we do to feel productive so we don't have the burden of figuring out how to spend our days in a way we feel good about? If so I agree.
Agreed, and I don't want to hear the old claim, "But people who don't work won't have any self-respect and won't know how to spend their time in a satisfying manner." The former is a bug we will correct, the latter is just the thing people say about all those other people they don't know.
and drones
Oh come on, surely you trust the American population to know where automation is headed!
Wait a minute...I certainly hope they test parachutes in the appropriate manner! It may not be a randomized trial, but that's because parachutes are different from diagnosing and treating medicine.
Well, come on, there's a big difference between a program where the human sifts through the data and codes in rules of some form, and a program that sifts through the data and comes up with the rules (explicitly or implicitly).
I'm a huge skeptic about the _effectiveness_ of much-vaunted AI revolution in general based on everything I've done in machine learning and everything I've read and seen; and the Watson revolution specifically because of and what my friend who helped build Watson has told me, but you've got to admit that theoretically, the potential is there.
wow, gets "blown out of proportion" by the press? Do you mean "reported on"?
This is off-topic and you're a horrible person, but community colleges are great. Not everyone needs a 4-year degree and the claim that we do is just one symptom of our completely fucked-up economy, but community colleges are good for people who don't need/can't afford a 4-year, and also people who just want to do their first 2 years very cost-effectively.
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
