* Posts by Dinkrex

7 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jan 2018

US border cops told to stop copying people's files just for the hell of it

Dinkrex

Re: Don’t understand...

Or just create a dummy user account and make your main account hidden. This is easier on some phones than others. Samsung locks their phone down pretty hard and needs 3rd party apps to do it, while Sony stays quite close to the original OS and can do it through settings.

GIMPS crack whip on plucky processor to find largest prime number

Dinkrex

Re: A bloody good read actually

Paid review!

Skynet it ain't: Deep learning will not evolve into true AI, says boffin

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Our brains are only like neural networks in the most superficial ways. They're only called neural networks because of the way neurons look, not the way they function.Neurons alter their chemical composition for every process, we don't have one neuron for each memory, thought or instinct. Neural networks are not capable of altering themselves beyond tacking on more branches and even that is severely limited by what is already in the network.

This touches on one of the key reasons why neural networks are not AI. If a net receives input it can't identify it just throws up an error, ideally using it to improve its detection capabilities for next time. An AI needs to have the ability to identify something it hasn't seen before, even if only to identify it as an unknown entity, to be corroborated with any future examples. A neural net is only designed to identify the thing it's made to work on, so it just throws info on new items away in favour of improving its systems.

Dinkrex

Finally!

Someone finally said it. What is called 'AI' today is not AI, not even weak AI. I know why it's so prevalent though, AI researchers don't want to repeat the over-promising that led to the last two "AI winters", but they're leaving the door open to different over-promising by corporations who want to turn it into a buzzword and the media who want a soundbite.

Nvidia: Using cheap GeForce, Titan GPUs in servers? Haha, nope!

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Can't they just use nouveau drivers? No-one runs datacentres on Windows, right? It's not ideal, but given how much money you'd save...

Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

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Re: I finally switch from AMD to Intel, and this is what happens.

If you bought a Coffee Lake CPU, then it's not affected.

UK security chief: How 'bout a tax for tech firms that are 'uncooperative' on terror content?

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Tax what?

The likes of Signal and Telegram (the ones which are actually used by terrorist organisations) operate on grants and donations, they don't sell anything so what are you going to tax?