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Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
#51
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
(May 21, 2017 at 9:19 am)Aoi Magi Wrote:
(May 21, 2017 at 9:05 am)chimp3 Wrote: As far as I know AI has reached the level of intelligence obtained by insects. Not as smart as a mole rat yet.

You overestimate current AI.

Yes in some very focused applications they are doing well, but overall an ant is capable of much more dynamic behavior under unknown circumstances than today's AI.

Yes, and this may be because the body plays a role as well in cognition. Embodied cognition. Why not many of the "louder" experts, if any, talk about embodied cognition, I don't know. But it is a field that has been seriously considered by many experts for quite some time now.
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#52
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
(May 22, 2017 at 9:27 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: They are not working on cybersex enough.

They don't work for surgery, either.

But they're fun when it comes to dealing with enemies, annoying people, religious door knockers, and random people on the street.
Dying to live, living to die.
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#53
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
(May 22, 2017 at 9:33 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(May 22, 2017 at 9:27 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: They are not working on cybersex enough.

They don't work for surgery, either.

But they're fun when it comes to dealing with enemies, annoying people, religious door knockers, and random people on the street.

Cybersex surgery??? I'm all Pavlov now!

I can see an application for the rest though.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#54
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
(May 22, 2017 at 9:37 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:
(May 22, 2017 at 9:33 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: They don't work for surgery, either.

But they're fun when it comes to dealing with enemies, annoying people, religious door knockers, and random people on the street.

Cybersex surgery??? I'm all Pavlov now!

I can see an application for the rest though.

You're a pavlova?

That's just weird!
Dying to live, living to die.
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#55
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
(May 22, 2017 at 9:41 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(May 22, 2017 at 9:37 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Cybersex surgery??? I'm all Pavlov now!

I can see an application for the rest though.

You're a pavlova?

That's just weird!

And I'm a baklava. And love it.
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#56
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
(May 21, 2017 at 6:50 pm)chimp3 Wrote: AI ! Making life easier for hedonists like me. 

Hal! Go mow the grass and cook me a nice Paella while I sip this excellent Bordeaux!

I would fully accept an AI-based, self-aware boyfriend/ machine - just sayin'. Angel
Alas, those are far off into the future.

-Teresa
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#57
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
Don't bother Teresa.
They'll eventually screw around anyway. That's what men do.

It's got a dick, right? He he
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#58
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
Yeah, that's true ignoramus...thanks for smashing my dreams Wink

Edit to add: I thought I was cynical...you have me beat there lol

-Teresa
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#59
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
(May 22, 2017 at 10:36 pm)Tres Leches Wrote:
(May 21, 2017 at 6:50 pm)chimp3 Wrote: AI ! Making life easier for hedonists like me. 

Hal! Go mow the grass and cook me a nice Paella while I sip this excellent Bordeaux!

I would fully accept an AI-based, self-aware boyfriend/ machine - just sayin'. Angel
Alas, those are far off into the future.

-Teresa

Waiting to encounter a human male who is fully self aware...
Dying to live, living to die.
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#60
RE: Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here
(May 22, 2017 at 5:54 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Just wanted to share this Smile




Yes, I am subscribed to ColdFusion, and a few others, like 2 minute papers.

(May 22, 2017 at 1:55 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote:
(May 21, 2017 at 8:15 pm)MellisaClarke Wrote: They are about to replace 75 - 80% of IT jobs:

https://futurism.com/80-of-it-jobs-can-b...-exciting/

It looks like you're correct though, in terms of mapping brains, we haven't gotten to chimp level yet. (Gotten as far as rats)

Why do you continue to post links to a website that has nothing but bullshit articles designed solely for clickbait?

Sorry, was trying to provide relevant information.

I think articles like those are preparing the public for the rapid loss of jobs due to automation.

As an econ person myself, that was not clickbait for me.

(May 22, 2017 at 1:26 pm)Mathilda Wrote: I presented a paper last month at a generic AI conference. I wrote the code and paper in my spare time over the last 7 years so I could do something really new. Last time I went to that conference was 2005, 12 years ago. It was interesting because there were far fewer people this time, and that even got mentioned at the AGM. General opinion was that most people were going to machine learning conferences. Machine learning is a limited form of AI, in the same way natural language processing is. Other reasons for low attendence is the lack of funding in academia. This was a conference in the UK.

Second interesting thing that I noticed was the complete lack of progress. They were talking about exactly the same things as 12 years ago. As far as I'm concerned we haven't had much progress since the mid 90's if you exclude advances in processing power. Intel reckons going below 5nm does not make economic sense. We're currently at 14nm  so forget about Moore's law continuing.

During the panel discussions about the dangers of AI, they made a lot of good points. In a hall of about 300 people, absolutely no one mentioned the hyped up ideas about singularity from media whores such as Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Elon Musk or Stephen Hawking.

The singularity is not here.

I saw a talk by Ray Kurzweil recently.

I thought Moore's law as also ending, but he described that Moore's law is not only about hardware changes, but also exponential software returns.

I am betting on Kurzweil's predictions for now. 

With things like NVIDIA tpu systems, we are actually going a bit faster than Moore's law. 

Kurzweil also says that we'll go into other types of computing, to maintain speed.



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