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Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by dogsoldier, Mar 23, 2013.

  1. dogsoldier Gems: 7/31
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    Remove all ads!
    "When Darpa talks about artificial intelligence, it’s not talking about modeling computers after the human brain. That path fell out of favor among computer scientists years ago as a means of creating artificial intelligence; we’d have to understand our own brains first before building a working artificial version of one. But the agency thinks we can build machines that learn and evolve, using algorithms — 'probabilistic programming' — to parse through vast amounts of data and select the best of it. After that, the machine learns to repeat the process and do it better."

    http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/darpa-machine-learning-2/

    Man. It would be awesome to work at DARPA, I bet.
     
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    dogsoldier, Mar 23, 2013
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    Shoshino Irritant Veteran

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    I personally find the idea that we're moving towards an artificial sentience quite exciting, if my computer could talk, hmm, I wonder what it would say.
     
    Shoshino, Mar 24, 2013
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    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    *cough* urrrrrrgh... vacuuuuuum meeeee... *cough*
     
    Taluntain, Mar 24, 2013
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    oh, har har...

    My computer is well maintained thank you very much...

    If anything it would say "please don't let your wife hit me with a hammer next time you have an argument"
     
    Shoshino, Mar 24, 2013
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    Wouldn't it just say "updates are ready" and "I need to be restarted" and crap like that?
     
    Gaear, Mar 24, 2013
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    Only if Micro$oft provides the OS.
    Which is a scary scenario when it comes to AI's!
     
    Darion, Mar 24, 2013
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    Mine would probably be along the lines of...
    "Hmmm, another thrilling day with dogsoldier. I can do all these wonderful things and you mostly use me to keep up with the inane lives of shallow people you were friendly with 25 years ago, look at porn, and store too many songs? Harumph."
     
    dogsoldier, Mar 24, 2013
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    Dogsoldier, thanks for saving yet another Monday from fail. :D
     
    Sir Rechet, Mar 25, 2013
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    If Micro$oft WinBlows were to design Terminators, I would feel quite safe! :D

    (I expect Microsoft Terminator 2104 would actually be able to shoot the long side of a barn from five yards' distance.)
     
    Montresor, Mar 25, 2013
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