Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
Quite!
"IBM you have been a very naughty employer, if you discriminate against older employees again, we ae going to have to give you a very strong talking to.
Now, would you like ice cream?"
Without penalties, a hearing like this is just going to encourage IBM to be more creative next time.
Is that a beancounter has seen another item for profit maximisation. Companies almost without exception pay what they must based on the supply and demand of relevantly qualified individuals who can do the job rather than pay what an employee is worth in terms of their contribution to the function of the business.
Any opportunity to reduce the payment to those who actually enable the business will be snatched at.
In conversation trying to explain my position/opinion on Alleged Intelligence, I compare it to cars.
If you have passed your driving test you know how to operate a car but that doesn't mean you know everything about the operation of cars that even the likes of Lewis Hamilton or top rallye drivers are unlikely to achieve.
If you are a mechanic, you will know how a car operates and how to repair it and the function of the parts and could possibly build a complete car from parts.
Then there are design and production engineers who work in teams, understand the funtion of all the parts, the material requirements and the manufacturing process.
Currently AI is somewhere between getting a licence and Lewis Hamilton.
The results demonstrate a clear example of GIGO, they may have trained it with gigabytes of human text but from where? The National Enquirer wndvthe Daily Mail?
I'm willing to bet the text was mainly US centric too.
Just as no matter the criteria you set in a google or bing search, the majority of results are US centric. Shoddy, lazy work.
I think they should try their hands at satire and sarcasm and maybe a touch of irony. The Irish Celts could make and break kings with a satirical pamphlet and some believed a master satirist could kill with words.
If the pentagon can master those, they will be able to rule the world, fortunately, it is unlikely to be soon.
Actually, the last sentence in the article says,' Hydrogen also has a number of exotic properties including super conductivity at room temperature and superfluidity.
I guess that prediction is based on being able to achieve sufficient pressure at room temperature.
It sounds as though you have aready nationalised the grid but forgot to do the paperwork.
If the telcos have already had $400 billion to install nationwide fibre and haven't, shirley they are collectively guilty of fraud.
They could learn new trades like making number plates and uniforms in the chokey while the rest of America gets on with building a decent 'democratised';service.
We assume we are intelligent but it may just be arrogance on our part.
Perhaps really intelligent beings avoid the type of industrialization that we have gone for and are peacefully meditating and being one with the universe.
I can't see hyper intelligent slime moulds doing a lot of metal working for example.
I live in Spain and currently get less odd calls than a year or two back, I have had some of those twenty digit numbers that seem to be from Wisconsin or Khazakstan but I almost never answer unknown numbers, if they don't identify themselves why should I talk to them?
I have answered a couple of cold callers but after lisening to a bit of the spiel I just say in a very British accent 'No intiendo mate!' and they hang up.
If, on the other hand the Hacienda (tax man) has a verification, I might actually answer them.
If the appointments of Martha Lane Fox and Dido Harding to IT positions of importance are examples of UK judgment in the IT industry, I hold out little hope thart no matter how many billions they throw out to their friends that any of it will result in a world class IT business.
The smarts and skills, I am sure exist in Britain but the chance of the right people getting the right support is par with a lottery win.
"1. Machine Learning is not AI"
And there you have it, stop calling machine learning, deep learning and neural networks intelligent , they are not, the use of the term Artificial Intelligence for any of the current uses at the current state of the technology is fraudulent.
Without doubt there are machine learning algorithms that are extremely useful, particularly in industry and medicine.
Are they clever? Yes.
Are they intelligent? No!
My old laptop died a while back, so for home use I bought a micro desktop with some home usr incarnation of WX pre installed.
Whe I first fired it up, it took me a good forty minutes after the initial forty minutes of self updating, to make the thing into a semblance of a 'normal' OS.
Deleting preinstalled apps that were good for nothing and trying to find things like the control panel and the now almost useless task manager, etc, etc, etc
And don't talk to ke about the dross that comes with any patch doomsday.
I read a comment elsewhere that thought Trump was trying to get the left, right and the cops to go all out on each other so he could announce martial law by November and the cancel/postpone the elections.
I wouldn't put that kind of thinking past him.
The Great Dicktator
Making America great again at the expense of most of it's major trading partners will ultimately lead to it having no one to trade with.
So unless they think they will just be able to buy all those broken comanies (countries) at knock down prices or even just walk in and take over, this current 'bankrupt everyone' protocol is not going to be good for anyone.
Triage is just one more step in reaching a resolution, as providers of a service, anyone should have a duty of care to resolve user's and customer's problems.
What should be in place given the enormous size and profits made by these people, is a team of adequately trained humans who, if they are unable to help you can refer you to the next stage.
Ninety percent of this is about reluctantly providing customer service when all the companies want is for you to give them money and then fuck off until the next time you want to give them money. Hence the usual 'Frequently asked questions' as the entrance to a rabbit hole full of futility.
According to the article, Gartner says by 2023, 70% of customers will prefer a robot so you must be in s minority.
Of course it is possible that Gartner was naked from the waist down when they pulled that statistic from its storage.
The only thing that pisses me off more than a bot is when companies fob you of with a link to a help forum that is usually no help at all.
I class that as a hindrance not a help.
I have always wondered why there are not more probes sent to Venus, I know Mars is interesting because it offers more potential for life and colonies but Venus is close and has a lot of organic chemistry going on.
It would be amazing if some kind of extremophile life was found in the clouds.
With over 8 million people in the UK living in unaffordable or unsuitable housing along with growing numbers of homeless, perhaps the empty office space could be gadually integrated into the housing stock?
There has been a huge shortfall of affordable housing since the war, every successive government has promised to do something about it and none of them have.
Thatcher's idea of 'Right to buy' might have been useful if the money from sold houses was put directly back into building more affordable housing but she made sure that wouldn't happen.
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