Re: Accountability is important.
If there is a patent, it should DEFINITELY be the patent-holder.
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After all "AI" is definitely NOT about systems that you can fully design, test, verify and manage. It is about systems that are too complex to handle in that way and whose workinge can only be assessed approximately ("Over any 60-minute test run, the system onyl went completely nuts in about 0.2% of cases; we have 30 low-pay south asians pouring over 50 GiB of memory dumps to find out the reason why, any reason why"). Unfortunately the article apparently talks about control systems.
Sat 24 Feb 08:59:02 UTC 2018
The Hubble Constant (how fast the universe expands with time) was predicted by the European Space Agency’s Planck observatory to be 67km per second per megaparsec (3.3 million light-years), shortly before the spacecraft was deactivated after a successful four-year mission.
As Fox Mulder would say: "A very convenient coincidence".
Because Idris is not yet industry ready. (But then: Introducing Idris on the JVM and an Idris Android example)
But you can go for Kotlin.
He said the company sees quite a bit of interest in Node.js, particularly for front-end applications
The gate to immense technical debt and technological craters ripped open by 20-somethings webmonkeys barely knolwedgeable about of what they are doing.
Plan to throw away a Node.js application. Hell, plan to throw away two.
DTrace
under the GPL
It’s difficult to try and coax an agent into learning a specific behavior, and in many cases hard coded rules are just better. Sometimes when it’s just trying to maximize its reward, the model learns to game the system by finding tricks to get around a problem rather than solve it.
Robots. Having a Deep Diversity Problem.
Hakusensha and Hakuhodo DY digital, both Japanese publishers of internet manga comics have released titles that have been automatically colored by PaintsChainer. There is also another option for those that want to hold onto their artistic freedom, where you can broadly choose the color of the clothes or hair in your drawings, and then PaintsChainer fills in the rest.
Actually sad as AFAIK, toning and coloring-in are jobs left for less-than-weel paid drudgery workers.
Automated away?
People whine that Apple doesn't innovate, but when they do something new some people are screaming "I don't want that!"
"Innovation" does not mean "change for change's sake that needs to be forced on people".
I wonder how much scoffing of the calculations for Andromeda's size is already happening, and how many are trying desperately to refute the proof?
Proofs exist only in completely made-up structures like mathematics and IT.
The world: not a video game where you can just query the mass of your opponent.
Of course the biggest info hooverer, a country that Is "El", isn't even being mentioned, at least officially. Of course it's being talked about but only when the door has been firmly shut.
And they have fat fingers up many companies' and representatives infrastructure and sphincters.
A vision of the future:
Amber Rudd's face beaming from large Telescreens all over London with the text "Amber Alert!" in scrolling letters underneath as Immigrant/Muslim/Pakistani/Nigerian/Whatever mobs protected by Antifa goons ransack shops and burn down cars as Whitey cowers in fear in his bathub in darkened bathrooms while being scolded by The Press in 20-page editorials for his white supremacism, vigilantism and deplorable Anglo-Saxonism by writers bearing frankly $ethnic names while only Asians armed with shotguns and baseball bats defend their families and livelihoods. As the Commitee against Anti-Semitism delivers the latest on the increasing HateThreat one can, by resolutely drilling down into the newstream, find out that Israel is ripping apart Syria, Lebanon and Jordan for incorporation into a Largish Chosen Land. At the same time limited nuclear war is being fought over Ukraine's right to be the Latest Democracy run by NonDemocrats and it's all Putin's fault. All of this is being calmly observed via Augmented Reality by smirking Oligarchs tended by Tensorflow Robobutlers as they take a morning dump into solid gold seats.
Is there anything it cannot do? Make sure your data is Clean In The Warehouse℠ and apply Dr. Trendy Z. Fuggtutti's Patent Machine Learning Rectifying Precompiler to your data streams! Also comes in wax form for the pointy hairs!
(Overuse of Machine Learning may expose you to technical debt and other hazards)
I think it's way too early to talk existential risks from robots. We don't even have a Philip-K-Dickian underground "Autofac" self-repairing and spitting out new robots per fas et nefas, even after nuclear exchanges, limited or otherwise.
Let's talk Europe being unable to handle refugees. And war.
And if not, was that a DeepFaked voice?
The old woman hung up, but the phone rang again, and the policeman said she could speak to her grandson: he came on the line, pleading with his grandmother for bail money.
Please El Reg don't pull such stupid stunts.
Also reminds me of a Greg Egan story where an extortionist builds a full simulation-AI of someone's wife in software. While the real wife is not in danger, will the husband pay up to have the simulation-AI, girevously suffering, shut down?
.... why is El Reg using a pink coffee mug pic from Shutterstock with the face of Nancy Pelosi forming in the broth?
Also "Should Have Used Go".
Well no. Though a nice language, go is not a step up and it's not about the language anyway as "EE" refers to "Enterprisy" libraries, add-ons, principles, application servers and large books "fleshing out" the Java Standard Edition. I'm partial to Spring Framework myself btw.
Does such a thing even exist in Go?
This bullshit is going to run and run.
Also, Trump has Russian Ties, the US is totally legally in Syria, in order to impose regime-changing zones, Ukraine is dying for democracy and it's only a matter of time before the budget is balanced.
See you at RuleML+RR 2018, then!
"It was kind of silly and fun, but silly things are important"
Ah, the advantages of not having to do tech in massive "state industries" where everyone needs to cover his/her arse, all the time, because humorless bureaucrats fighting the wrong kind of publicity and vote-chasing parliamentarians ready to whip up outrage WILL ruin your day stalinistically
I blew coffee all over the keyboard at that synchrolanding.
Then it became hilarious when they had to quickly bring in the fixer guy who could, at the same time, walk, chew gum and generate a zesty announcement that lawyers cannot glom onto when it became clear that the core was gone and the two designated announcers were about to mismanage the situation.
http://jobs.ieee.org/jobs/content/Certain-Wording-in-Job-Advertisements-May-Keep-Wom-2018-01-26
According to the findings, female job seekers weren’t generally likely to apply for jobs where advertisements mentioned personality requirements in a trait-like way versus a task-directed way. For instance, women felt that sentences such as "You are calm/not nervous" were less encouraging than the task-directed "You always remain calm under pressure" — the distinction being that the former statement dealt in common female stereotypes.
"Job-seeking women might fear that they too will be judged stereotypically if they apply," explains researcher Lien Wille. "This underlines that the way job ads are written may have a discriminatory effect even when there is no discriminatory intent."
They might! Ah ... ladies, so emotional ... wait! It's practically as if someone is actually trying to reinforce stereotypes in a particularly underhanded way?
The study is published in the research journal "Sex Roles."
I'm subscribed to a few of those.
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The paper took as granted "that women have a comparative advantage at tasks that involve 'brains' as opposed to 'brawn,'" with the authors citing various academic papers to that effect.
What does that even mean?
The real world shows that engineering and abstract thinking is an occupation best left to the male brain. Other "brain-involving" occupations may show balanced or reversed ratios, it completely depends. I don't know how LGBTUIOP brains would work, and I don't particulary care.
As for brawn - yeah, the real world also shows things about that, in spite of gurrrll power propagandists telling whoever is ready to listen that women are excellent for firefighting, policing in diverse neighborhoods or military frontline duty (the last one is utterly retarded in more ways in one; also - want children? stay out of toxic industrial environments, lady!)
the cosmonauts gave it a shove in the direction of Earth, in the expectation it will burn up in the planet's atmosphere
Actually they throw if antispinwards of the ISS, which is sane:
"East (spinward) takes you out, out takes you west, west (antispinward) takes you in, in takes you east, port and starboard bring you back."
I don't know whether that little push was enough to make the package drop sufficiently low. Maybe one should have crossbow catapults.
“As the pace of change accelerates, it has become imperative to move our software to a more modern cadence.”
It's like we are really in a monetary bubble and the consumer is being hunted like fox by a pack of dogs who want to "accelerate" his cadence.
Is there no "barf" icon? Oh well.