Nadella calls for AI sector to move beyond 'worshipping' a handful of companies The tech sector is currently "worshipping" a handful of artificial intelligence companies, but is yet to show how it will make the technology accessible to and useful for its human end users, Microsoft head Satya Nadella has said. Speaking at the DLD technology conference in Munich, he said: "The way at least I have defined AI …
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and all those interactions will go through our servers and be use to data mine your activities so that our Partners (Advertisers, FBI, NSA etc) and follow your every move with their AI systems just in case you are planning an illegal act or thinking of buying something.
Nadella called for AI that helps build on human capability and creates more trust in technology from a security and privacy point of view
More trust? Security? Privacy? RUN! ... do not look back, do not stop to save anything... just shutter the ol' homestead, load the blunderbuss, and head for the hills! Nadella seeks to unleash the Flying Monkeys!
Maybe the reality is that "real" AI doesn't exist. What we have are nicer interfaces to 30 year old "Expert System" type programs using larger datasets (mostly human curated), often designed to exploit consumers by capturing our choices and behaviour.
Android on Phones, Tablets and most evil Android voice controlled TVs you can't even tune/install without agreeing to Google's coercive contract.
Amazon Echo.
MS Cortana
Apple Siri
AI isn't needed actually for voice control, and it's an unsafe and unreliable method of control.
Exactly what examples are there of real AI and how do it/they benefit humanity compared to clean drinking water, pollution free energy, proper toilets (I use my bathroom to wash), food not full of added water (ham, bacon), added sweetener (real or artificial), added fat and added salt.
Well, this is the guy that runs MS, and they have totally lost the plot anyway.
IBM: Don't look behind the curtain to see how Watson really works.
AI is an interesting goal. However after many years of study I'm more in doubt as to why we need it. Do we need to make silicon based gods in our own image and give up our free will to them? Is it indeed even possible? We don't understand Corvid or Chicken intelligence much less Human, so how can we create a program today to simulate it?
Windows 10 laptop spontaneously decided that while it could still see my wifi, it wouldn't do dhcp. Fiddled with settings, uninstalled/reinstalled driver, rebooted numerous times. Then it suddenly did ask for an ip address and connected.
None of the various "would you like windows to try and find a solution to this problem" options did a damn thing. Fortunately all the other boxes in the house are linux-based. Not without their problems but nothing so bloody-mindedly, stubbornly intractable as the win 10 POS.
I'd get rid but the other half needs it for work...
There's another quote that was misspoken... He added: "In the next phase, to me, [is] how can we democratise this access, versus worshipping the four, five, six companies that have a lot of AI.
I believe it was supposed to be: He added: "In the next phase, to me, [is] how can we democratize monetize this access, versus worshipping the four, five, six companies that have a lot of AI.
I'm hoping all this hype about AI just falls into the marketing toilet of "dead buzzwords". Until a machine can actually think about it's actions and have some ability to create/invent things, it's not intelligent. As my mentor pointed out to me decades ago... "A computer is only as smart as the person who programmed it. It can't change what does anymore than a tree can get up and walk to another forest."
Well I would NEVER settle for Windows (10 or any other) on my Laptop.
You are, of course, right. Since I moved to Linux in 2008 I have had far more control over the processes that run on my laptop. I don't have to put up with shit I don't want, but have to have because the cunts that put it on have used secret or hidden tricks to make sure their crap never goes away, even if I say I don't want it.
Similarly with my phone. I have CyanogenMod on there. I don't sign up to Google Play (they want to know my phone number -- why?) so I avoid all the spyware you get via the advertising apps they push out.
Simples.
"I don't have to put up with shit I don't want, but have to have because the cunts that put it on have used secret or hidden tricks to make sure their crap never goes away, even if I say I don't want it."
I used to think that, but then there was systemd.
"Nadella calls for AI sector to move beyond 'worshipping' a handful of companies"
"Hey guys! WE can do it too, honest! So quit following the industry leaders and follow us! We'll have something almost working any day now, scout's honor!"
When did Nadella suffer a blow to the head and started thinking he was Ballmer?
About 20 years ago I was at an industry presentation where Ballmer was spouting some crap about NT.
It was a specific sector, so someone put their hand up and asked when a specific protocol was to be supported. Ballmer assured us that MS were working on it and a release was imminent.
20 years down the line and still no sign. I did ask someone I knew in MS. He said they had looked at it but backed away as they did not have the skills. And thats when MS managed to recruit people.
Well, that's all true, but what he really meant wad "Stop worshipping these heathen gods and return to worshipping the One True God - Microsoft! Microsoft! Microsoft!
I'll be intrigued to see how the AI driven command line works. Because that's a way of interacing with compouters too. Maybe it'll chide you for sloppy coding, or suggest that you also go and buy something from the Microsoft store when it runs.
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