We were never given any specific reasons or examples, just a general "it is an embarrassment" or "it is toxic." Basically, because some people didn't like the tone of a few posters, the entire membership has lost the ability to discuss politics, which (as I continually point out ...

I thought it was obvious I wasn’t addressing the math because I literally did not address the math. Anyway, I’m a little confused about what you’re looking for. Are you trying to say that the math seems to show that alternators would decrease the energy expenditure? Even though you know thatâ€...

Obviously I’m not addressing your math. You asked if your assumptions were wrong and I pointed out where they were wrong. Hooking up an alternator to each wheel would be no different from adding regenerative brakes to each wheel. The energy isn’t free. It comes at the cost of slowing the car dow...

Are you taking into account that turning the alternator would require an *extra* expenditure of energy equal to or more than the amount it generates? Here's why: just because the wheels are turning doesn't mean you can siphon off some of that spin for free, without affecting the rate of spin. Turnin...

Thinking can be automated, though understanding probably cannot. So what is thinking that doesn't include understanding? It's the manipulation of ideas/information. This process has a formal structure--syntax. Grammar is syntax. Logic is syntax. If you know the rules, you can manipulate the symbols ...

AI is in that class of things, along with robotics, telecommunication, computers, electronics, motor vehicles, etc. which change the labor market by reducing industry's dependence on human beings. Given how massively industry invested in telecommunication, computers, electronics, motor vehicles, et...

How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to Animals Now that’s cool!! This might be the way we communicate with aliens, too, should the need arise. On rushing products to the marketplace before they are ready—isn’t this all software? That’s why we see a beta version and then endless updates. It ...

Fist, if it's able to correct itself--as it has in both your examples--how is that not learning from its errors? Maybe it was in error about its ability to correct errors.

I think it means that the programmers will try to make it better, which is the entire point of this trial. If you compare it to the software that came before, the results are a vast improvement. The point is that it is a chat bot. Its ability to create believable, conversational dialogue is astoundi...

Impressive. A true sign of intelligence is being able to admit when you’re wrong. :lol: Still, it’s odd that it contradicted itself. I suppose that’s part of working out the kinks. I thought this was interesting: New AI system broadens search for intelligent alien life – and discovers 8 stra...

Wouldn't it be cool if this was a thread about chatGPT instead of human greed and government regulations? Didn't we destroy an entire forum to crush discussions of things like that?

Wos, I’d love to respond in detail but discussion of regulations and the role of government in technology is political. From a purely technological standpoint, I don’t think you could write a regulation that would make AI useless to cheat on homework while simultaneously retaining all the value ...

The Internet has been around long-enough for us to enact commonsense regulation to magnify the pros and mitigate the cons. Why should AI be any different? There really aren't that many regulations on the Internet. How could there be? It's a global infrastructure. Would you like us to be more like C...

I'd like to add one more thing about the false, slanderous charge that I'm only interested in antagonism. I have a clearly articulated, well-documented world view that every problem in the world can be solved with more knowledge. I got this from reading David Deutsche's book THE BEGINNING OF INFINIT...

Zarathustra, I am not ignorant. Yes, you called me ignorant. Please stop treating me like that. Really. Please stop. No, I said, ‘It is ignorance,’ referring to ‘knee-jerk alarmism and others taking up that alarmism and repeating it without looking beyond headlines.’ How is this different f...

+JMJ+ Based on WF's points, we already have the knowledge that AI is a "problem" inasmuch as it's already being abused. Why would we need to await more knowledge before we could act in order to mitigate said problem? Seems like the solution would be to act on the knowledge we already have...

The technology for making hammers and pliers is a lot more complex than you would think. Metallurgy. Engineering.

Peter, tell that to your dentist who spent years getting the knowledge of how to deal with that problem.

You’re the guy who introduced me to David Deutsch! I’m quoting him.

The solution to every problem is always more knowledge.

If creating intelligence which can be misused makes the world less, then the same could be said of our own creation. Creating wonders and ‘miracles’ doesn’t make the world less. This is what the world is for. Don’t confuse your cynicism and fear of the unknown with a desire for things to rem...