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Comment Calm down, son (Score 1) 166

"These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources."

Yeah I doubt that. But even if true and it bothers you, it seems to me you are better off staying at the premiere company creating this inevitable horror and use the resources to find ways to fight back at it.

Comment Chatbots? Don't you mean ... (Score 2) 67

They have made multiple movies of some dweeb falling in love with a chatbot. (Last one was "Her?") Maybe that might happen but I don't see any evidence it would in enough numbers to make a difference.

Where you are going to see the real action is in sex-bots. China already has a robust industry around this and they have far less inhibitions about it. Dedicated brothels even. Once the dolls transition from mostly passive mannequins into humanoid machines that can execute sex acts you are going to have massive amounts of men -- and some percentage of women -- who will opt for that over getting married and having babies.

A shame the article isn't brave enough to go into that part in depth.

Comment Hasn't this been around a while? (Score 3, Interesting) 39

I went to an Intel Technology summit about 10 years ago (different world then) and one exhibit was showing off this capability. They had development kits with their chip set and software for sale.

With just a few WiFi radios reporting in they did a pretty decent job of mapping everyone in the room. Of course it wasn't high-res enough to provide any identification details other that approximate size but I thought that was pretty impressive.

This project doesn't seem to add anything new to that other than software that can distill more detail out of the combined signals.

Comment Re:Lost technology (Score 2) 165

we can't (due to environmental factors) produce wrought iron anymore (because there are no longer any facilities setup to do so), as a species, and therefore, could not build the Bay Bridge in San Francisco (and I'm sure, any number of others, like the Brooklyn bridge).

The Bay Bridge was not built with wrought iron. Nor was the new eastern section which we just replace.

Not having wrought iron production around anymore is not due to the decadence of the "species" and quite the opposite. It is due to advancement in technology making that material obsolete.

Comment They always say that (Score 1) 70

Has there ever been a single case of reporting on the next density storage device where the article didn't use the words:

... dealing with exploding data growth. ...

Yeah, we know. It is not big news. Stick to comparison with other solutions (did that some .. one silver star) and maybe something interesting with regard to analysis of what the next technology milestone will have to achieve.

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