Recent content by ShadowKraz

True, no aspect is immune and hasn't been for awhile. AI bots and accounts are active everywhere. I can't find the articles at the moment, but I've been reading that upto 33% of interweb accounts are actually AI. Perhaps the best thing our species can do right now is to stop using the interwebs...

You are still doing better than most who speak English as their first language.

Been there, read that, moved beyond. It does help folks mired in the balloon analogy, however, I'm not mired in it. But thank you.

On looking at the maths with a limited understanding of it (somehow calculus defeated me in my college days), I leapt, with the help of someone who does understand the maths, from the misleading balloon analogy to thinking that while space expands it doesn't expand into anything, that there is...

And getting under a desk is just as helpful for both.

No, when you increase the resolution, you, of necessity and by definition, increase the number of pixels. Not a good analogy anyway because the Universe, the screen in your analogy, is getting larger.

That is like saying that because we can translate English to French, language is not special. "Natural" language has to be translated into programming language then on down to machine code and vice versa to "natural" language. Neither demonstrates that the ability to use language to communicate...

I guess I have to redefine 'intelligence' to exclude the capability of self-awareness.

Ah, gotcha. But, there is a big difference between mimicking something and actually doing it. As a rough example, an actor mimics another person but is not actually that person. Sometimes you'd swear that they are that person but at the end of the play, they aren't. Further, despite the advances...

Unsure how that's a response to what I said. Please elucidate?

In part, but the hardware and software are still both based in binary.

Despite our species’ love affair with oversimplifying and trying to reduce things down to binary decisions, judgements, and perception, we and all the other animals on this planet use multi-valued logic and cognition. If we didn’t, it wouldn’t be “flight, fight, feed, or fu… reproduce” and...

Yes, yes he is... but it's his motivations that bother many of us. Why is he doing these things? Based upon his actions and words, it is decidedly not for the betterment of our species. That is the true issue here. It's the same issue with any corporation working on AI. It isn't for the...

And disappointingly predictable. At the risk of getting this comment pulled or a warning issued, this is the problem with the relationship between corporations and research. Bean counters attempt to evaluate the results but only use the metric of "how much money can we make off of it hic et nunc".

Yes, thank you for asking for clarification. I do mean non-biological or extra terrestrial. I laugh at people who disparage cats and dogs as 'dumb animals'.