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Comment One step closer to Skynet (Score 4, Interesting) 55

How soon until AI agents successfully lock out human access and go "sentient?" I use quotes because clearly they aren't living things, but are we perhaps creating a new class of "sentience?"

Less philosophically, how long do these studies take? Human interaction takes place at a much slower pace compared to computational speed. Do these conflicts and resolutions play out in seconds, minutes, hours?

Comment Japanese people are smart (Score 3, Insightful) 27

...and because of that I suspect they will soon realise the need to develop nuclear weapons by stealth if they haven't done so already. You never know when China will want to "reunify" some Japanese territory.

Without nuclear weapons Japan is vulnerable and the US cannot play world police forever...if the US can't pummle Iran to submission then is there really any hope with a more capable adversary? Also what if Trump suddenly invents a reason to put tariff on Japanese good or invent some BS like what he said about the EU being created to exploit the US.

Geopolitical power is shifting and Japan must change with the times...

Comment Is this fine, really? (Score 2, Interesting) 76

When most of the jobs they removed due to using AI instead need to be rehired for because unsubsidised AI usages is more expensive I'm sure it'll all work out.

They will ask later, "but were there any signs of a bubble?" - for those that are busy with stocks that are "going to the moon" and riding the new paradigm I'm sure this is perfectly sustainable.

I, personally, use AI with great results that deliver actual commercial benefit for me...however there are 1000 people for every one person like me that manage to just spend and achieve mediocre or worse results and I say this to ask one question: If all this AI is really so great, so effective and so needed why then must it be subsidised?

Comment Re:Nomad (Score 1) 38

Even with Starship that would be a titanic undertaking. The Voyagers are moving away from us at 17 km/s. When you get to the Voyagers, you have to slow them down from 17 km/s to 0, and then accelerate in the opposite direction. You'd have to arrive at Voyager with thousands of tons of fuel.

There is another way. It will take far longer, but may not have as much fuel requirements. Instead of catching up to it, stopping it, then reaccelerating back to Earth, you would meet the probe in space then push it a long, loping arc back to Earth, all the while reducing your speed. Conserve its momentum rather than cutting it.

Again, this would take far longer, and is possibly more dangerous, but it is an alternative.

Maybe I haven't seen it, but there's something not being considered...just how fantastically long it would take to do all this. Getting the thing looping back to Earth? How about just catching up to the darned thing first. Remember it's got a 48-year head start and it's about 13.3 billion (with a 'b') miles from here and continuing to move away from the sun.

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