Likewise.
I don't own either of the Google or Alexa home devices, and as a result of this story, I am unlikely to do so.
Why aren't Google Home and Alexa locked down to specific voice patterns like Siri? If I say "Hey Siri" to someone else's iPhone nothing happens.
> The artificially intelligent algorithms began to train themselves using existing data to look for patterns and create their own "rules." Then, they began testing these guidelines against other records. And as it turns out, all four of these methods "performed significantly better than the ACC/AHA guidelines," Science reports.
This is merely back testing. It's easy to come up with an algorithm that works with data set A and they works with data set B. People have been claiming back tested algorithms to predict stock market returns and election returns for ages. And in forward testing the algorithms always fail.
This is not to say that a machine-based approach to predicting heart ailments cannot work. But for it to be proven, it has to be forward tested: it has to work with new patients.
No one was hurt in the crash, but the vehicle was destroyed."During the test, Texel lifted off and hovered without incident, then descended again and touched the ground. But it then rose again unexpectedly and began accelerating upward. "Crap, it's going to fly into the crane, I need to kill it," Carmack recalls thinking.
He hit the manual shutdown switch, turning off the vehicle's engine in mid-flight. Texel was about 6 metres above the ground and fell like a stone. One of its fuel tanks broke open when it hit the ground, spewing fuel that ignited and engulfed the vehicle in flames. "It made a fireball that would make any Hollywood movie proud," Carmack says.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
