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TaoPhoenix:
N.C. company rolls out new Bubble Wrap that won't pop
-Arizona Hot (July 03, 2015, 04:52 AM)
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From "what is the point" department!
(Blah blah I know, cost savings, but still ! )
TaoPhoenix:
Google Made a Chatbot That Debates the Meaning of Life
-Arizona Hot (June 29, 2015, 11:47 AM)
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This is more important of a discovery/result than you might think. It's a huge new step in "artificial intelligence" because unlike the typical need in early-generation scientific studies to keep muddying factors out of study parameters, there's nothing stopping a mix of iterative machine-learn/hand-code/machine-learn/hand-code.
You can build an "AI" out of modules. You might catch it twice-per-module-shift but then you would with real people too. Then once it knows "what it is talking about", that local expertise module comes into use.
And the "meaning of life" module is important because that's one of the famous categories in "Loebner 1.0" style contests to bust up the machine. But if it can almost sound like a burnt out college student, then when the questioner gets bored of his/her/(its?) "little joke", the convo goes back to the "meaty topic" and the comp just keeps right on going shifting modules again.
To me this is one of the raw fundamental fears we expressed in early scifi about machines/robots, because you just keep loading these convo engines aka "brains" at high speed en masse, and suddenly humans feel threatened because it takes us exhaustively long to gain our own experience and the comp just gets pushed a new module in minutes.
Notice how anti-AI folks keep using versions of "No True Scotsman" to hold back recognition that AI is coming. Once you have a comp mind engine that can do seventy things moderately well, what is left for a person of personhood?
4wd:
(see attachment in previous post)
N.C. company rolls out new Bubble Wrap that won't pop
-Arizona Hot (July 03, 2015, 04:52 AM)
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... recently developed a new type of its protective wrap called iBubble Wrap that is flat and airless ...
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... If you press one the bubbles the air will just shift to another sector of the column ...
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Stoic Joker:
N.C. company rolls out new Bubble Wrap that won't pop-Arizona Hot (July 03, 2015, 04:52 AM)
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-TaoPhoenix (July 03, 2015, 01:54 PM)
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WHAT!!! Bubble Wrap without Bubbles?!? Travesty! Heresy! Sacrilege - Burn the Witch!!! ... Society is doomed!
Edvard:
Now THIS... this looks like lots of fun. Though the groin tag at 0:33 makes me cringe. :'(
Archery tag:
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