Comment Re:I Pitty the fool! (Score 1) 51
Or the voice of HAL, nothing like a killer AI as the voice of Alexa
Comment Re:Why would he say that? (Score 2) 207
It adds irony to the CEO stance since AI systems are projected to replace many workers. He's advocating that employees should work from the office, but what will be a selling point for AI solutions to replace workers? They can do the same work without the overhead of office space.
Also, when an AI service is replacing the workers in a department, which setup will be easier for them to come in and scope out? Workers consolidated in one place should be easier than a group of geographically distributed teleworkers.
Also, when an AI service is replacing the workers in a department, which setup will be easier for them to come in and scope out? Workers consolidated in one place should be easier than a group of geographically distributed teleworkers.
Comment They could have just sent a message... (Score 1) 99
"Do not look at laser with remaining eye"
Comment Re:2029 approach (Score 4, Funny) 182
"Carter, I can see my house from here."
Comment Re:The first rule... (Score 1) 789
Hang on... Okay, got it. Second rule?
Second Rule: Don't tell anyone about the first rule
Comment Re:causality (Score 1) 465
are you sure about that?
Yes _and_ No
Palm Pre and WebOS Get Native Gaming 49
rboatright writes "WebOS developers have been waiting, and with the 1.3.5 release, Palm's open source page suddenly listed SDL. Members of the WebOS internals team took that as a challenge and within 24 hours had a working port of Doom running in SDL on the Pre, in a webOS card. 48 hours later, they not only had Quake running, but had found in the latest LunaSysMgr the requirements to launch a native app from the webOS app launcher from an icon just like any other app. At the same time, the team demonstrated openGL apps running. With full native code support, with I/O available via SDL, developers now have a preview into Palm's future intent with regard to native code SDK's, and a hint of what's coming."
Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132
An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"
Comment Re:I wonder ... (Score 1) 54
Where's Wall-E
Comment Re:Impossible (Score 2, Funny) 258
"We've secretly replaced the ship's dilithium crystals with Folger's crystals. Let's see if they notice"
