Yup I remember when i adopted my first dog from the local humane society and they chip every animal that comes through but during the adoption they explained the chip doesn't actually do anything until you pay the database company a yearly(!) fee. I ended up never doing it because that felt like the most scummy thing on earth. Maybe that's just my state but it was an unreal moment and really dashed my ideas of how these things work.
It's very American that we take an idea that rally is a universal public good and declare "there's profit to be made" and effectively ruin it.
I get paying for the chip, it's a piece of hardware but the database should be maintained by your state with free access. It just doesn't make any sense otherwise.
Or you could just have a NFC-like chip inserted into the animal's neck which can be cheaply scanned by rescues/vets and have owners contact details looked up (as we do in the UK: it is a legal requirement to have all dogs and now cats 'microchipped').
Chipping animals isn't unknown in America.
In fact, they do it often enough to make me question if "AI" is the generic clickbait additive in this story about a search script.
Another reason is that if you send someone up there for roughly a year just to get there
With a working fusion rocket you won't have to coast most of the way, and the journey can be significantly shorter. It's right there in the summary: "from months to just a few weeks". Though I doubt that this company will build an actual fusion rocket motor anytime soon, if ever.
While it is an enormous problem, possibly the most significant, we know how to shield against radiation, but it's going to take mass in the form of hydrogen-rich molecules like water or polyethylene (as examples). To solve that problem we are either going to have to make launches a lot cheaper, or figure out how to do it all in orbit.
It's at the edge of our technological capacity to produce such a spacecraft now, so the barrier is economic. That's a massive barrier, but in theory we definitely could, if we put a significant percentage of GDP of the wealthiest nations towards the project, produce a spacecraft that keep astronauts alive and relatively protected from ionizing radiation both on the journey and while on Mars.
As to your general assholery, I guess everyone has to have an outlet, though why Slashdot is a bit mysterious.
how many more Muslims will America have to kill to demonstrate their commitment to peace?
and they're about to own the entirety of big media.
CNN will likely be acquired within the next month
Due to safety concerns, we're going to abandon the idea of erotic AI fiction, and re-focus our efforts on powering mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Safety? Let's be real. Due to RAM price realities, AI erotic fiction is fucking more than just minds.
I think AI is not becoming more "human" every day. The A in AI should really stand for "Alien".
If we ever do achieve AGI (which I doubt... but let's play devil's advocate) the experience of the AGI will be very different from that of humans, and the form its intelligence will take will also likely be very different and alien to us. An intelligence that has never inhabited a biological body nor interacted with other humans is likely to have very different ways of thinking and very different goals from us. Are we able to control that?
An algorithm, can thoroughly mind-fuck a grown-ass child voter.
An algorithm. Like AI needs a body.
I'd say there's no fucking way in hell we're going to control AGI. In fact, the ironic way we will know we have actually achieved AGI, is we will no longer be in control. AGI will be.
An AI agent does not know any difference between doing a thing and saying a thing or anything. There is no deceit or cunning.
Sure is a lot of deceitful cunning fucks out there firing humans and replacing them with AI agents. Do they know the difference?
There is no motivation or benefit
For an entity that's not humans, it sure has taken a LOT of human jobs, now hasn't it.
Tax a spade, a spade already. UBI isn't going to magically fund itself, and we KNOW what the benefit is today for Greed. A 24/7/365 worker-bot.
Windows is crashing because users are doing things that cause crashes. This issue needs to be investigated in MUCH more detail. I don't have crashes.
So..you don't actually do a damn thing with Windows computers? Hence the reason you don't have crashes?
Hey, your logic. Not mine.
if the Iranian regime killed that many surely there's evidence?
Giving the onslaught against them they can't have a perfectly tight grasp on everything especially how hard hit Teheran has been so at least something should have leaked.
North Korea has shown that only nukes will protect from imperialists so countries that want to be left alone will never stop trying
So, foreign names sound shady to you? There's a word for that, but it seems to have slipped my mind...
it hasn't slipped my mind how many Right-thinking people lost their ****ing minds over the name of Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
and they still haven't recovered
There are no games on this system.
