Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Just an experimental substitution ...
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Originally Posted by Ensign Steve
So yeah, let's just keep building this army of hyper-literal, no-empathy-having, ASD police officers and arming them and putting them out on the streets and see what happens.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
That doesn't explain how all of those conveniently-in-place bases, ready to take on the arm assembly, got there (or where all of those just-in-time single components come from) in the first place. All things considered, this is not a good installation.
ARM design chips, CPU and GPU, and you probably have one of their designs in a mobile device near you. Cool.
Softbank (a Japanese mobile operator) may have made the offer now because of the brexit-related fall in the pound, though they deny it. Fine.
But why have they paid 50% over the odds for ARM?
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In an interview last month with the Nikkei, Mr Son said: "The Singularity is coming. Artificial intelligence will overtake human beings not just in terms of knowledge, but in terms of intelligence."
Both the BBC article and the Nikkei article define the Singularity with journalistic carelessness, and it's not clear whether Mr Son understands it correctly nor how owning a chip design company relates to the singularity at all, but it case this is a pivotal moment, you heard it here first.
Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying to evolve its own method to crack the AI-generated crypto. The study was a success: the first two AIs learnt how to communicate securely from scratch.
Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying to evolve its own method to crack the AI-generated crypto. The study was a success: the first two AIs learnt how to communicate securely from scratch.
Thank you I meant to poast that and then I forgot.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
This just occurred to me. (It's amazing what occurs to me when I ought to be working.)
Taking the singularity simplistically as a point where there are AIs more intelligent than humans (and we can't predict their future beyond that point) ...
All the discussion has been about the increase of artificial intelligence. But it occurs to me we are witnessing a parallel decrease of human intelligence. So the point at which we, as a civilisation, can't predict how AIs will develop could be a lot closer than previously thought.
In light of which I propose a new date for the singularity: the middle of next week. Yes, Wednesday 9 November 2016.
Google Translate got all neural-network-augmented (instead of using phrase lookup) - and went ahead and created its own internal language without being told to! At least that's what its creators think it's doing. They don't sound exactly sure.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Sooo ... I translated my post to Finnish
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Google Translate saanut kaikki hermo-verkko-täydennetty (käyttämisen sijaan lause lookup) - ja meni eteenpäin ja luonut oman sisäisen kielelle ilman käsketään! Ainakin se, mitä sen laatijat ajatella se tekee. He eivät kuulosta aivan varma.
and back again
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Google Translate received all the nerve-net-supplemented (instead of using the phrase lookup) - and went ahead and created its own internal language without're told! At least that's what the authors think it does. They do not sound too sure.
which is pretty good considering some of the travesties of the past.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Yup, that's called an interlingua.
It's gotta get a lot better if it's going to account for stylistic factors (like that I wrote "It's gotta get" instead of "It'll have to get" or "It has got to get" etc.) but even then translating to some languages can remove distinctions and there's no way to recover them and have natural sounding translations.
For example, if you translate Swedish "moster" or "faster" into English, they'll both become "aunt" and then the distinction is lost in any subsequent retranslations. It could choose to translate them as "maternal aunt" or "mother's sister" and "paternal aunt/father's sister" and maintain the distinction, but usually that wouldn't sound as natural in English.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Linear Mode
