Science General Discussion

[Legend]

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so spacex posted a photo of the 4 returned boosters.. one seems to have been repainted!  

That's a good sign!

[DD_Bwest]

That's a good sign!

I bet we see it fly this summer

[the-pi-guy]

Sometimes I wonder about time constraints for AI.  

Babies have like a decade or two to learn lots of stuff, and they get to play around the real world, being able to touch, smell, play around with physics, taste, etc.  
AI don't exactly have the ability to do really any of that stuff, while they do have their own benefits with tons of access to other types of information.  But I wonder.

[Legend]

Sometimes I wonder about time constraints for AI.  

Babies have like a decade or two to learn lots of stuff, and they get to play around the real world, being able to touch, smell, play around with physics, taste, etc.  
AI don't exactly have the ability to do really any of that stuff, while they do have their own benefits with tons of access to other types of information.  But I wonder.

I think it's more likely the first AIs will be built intelegent from day one. Instead of being babies learning through play, they'll be adults learning through observation. IE Siri and Cortana learning through day to day operation.

Baby like AI learning seems like something that'll come after first gen AI, where seeking human like sentience is the primary goal.

[the-pi-guy]

I think it's more likely the first AIs will be built intelegent from day one. Instead of being babies learning through play, they'll be adults learning through observation. IE Siri and Cortana learning through day to day operation.

This 100% seems to be the direction that we are going.  Don't see any indication something else will come up.  

Baby like AI learning seems like something that'll come after first gen AI, where seeking human like sentience is the primary goal.

Current AI is pretty cool, but so much of it seems problematic.  Even Microsoft's twitterbot, and most of the best bots still are not really great.  
I think it'd be interesting if there was some amazing algorithm that just required something different from what has really been tried in the field.  Like giving it more time, and giving it like a playground.  

Even if we had like a virtual playground, and virtually sped up time for an AI, I wonder if there could be some amazing way for Ai's to learn.  

I also think it'd be cool if we could like extract personalities from other sources and apply it to an Ai.  Like "Can we make a Homer Simpson AI?" and then the computer does analyzing on the show and makes something true to that character.
Think that'd be cool, but I can't imagine that happening (any time soon at least).  

[Legend]

This 100% seems to be the direction that we are going.  Don't see any indication something else will come up.  
Current AI is pretty cool, but so much of it seems problematic.  Even Microsoft's twitterbot, and most of the best bots still are not really great.  
I think it'd be interesting if there was some amazing algorithm that just required something different from what has really been tried in the field.  Like giving it more time, and giving it like a playground.  

Even if we had like a virtual playground, and virtually sped up time for an AI, I wonder if there could be some amazing way for Ai's to learn.  

I also think it'd be cool if we could like extract personalities from other sources and apply it to an Ai.  Like "Can we make a Homer Simpson AI?" and then the computer does analyzing on the show and makes something true to that character.
Think that'd be cool, but I can't imagine that happening (any time soon at least).  

One AI concept I've had is ignoring the complex parts of consciousness and just try to make a program that predicts what a human would do. IE scan through every single post of a person online, calculate how they write and how they feel, and then simulate that person's online presence. To outsiders if the algorithm is good enough, it'd feel like AI. Yet on the programing side it'd have zero understanding of what it's actually saying or "thinking."

[Legend]

Sweet

World's first passenger drone cleared for testing in Nevada | Technology | The Guardian

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[DD_Bwest]

Launch tomorrow morning,  window opens at 10:29est.    launching Eutelsat and ABS!   itll be another one on "Of course i still love you" (drone ship)

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Yup early launch. Before E3!

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About an hour till launch.

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LAUNCH!

[DD_Bwest]

i slept in lol atleast im up to see the landing lol

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Failed landing?

[DD_Bwest]

bad feeling about it.. that was a hell of alot of smoke..