Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

yow

http://boingboing.net/2016/12/08/ai-written-christmas-song-soun.html

Love the girl in the background of that tweet above who takes the perfectly-timed "That ain't none of my business" drink of tea.

🐸☕️

good catch. I wonder if she told them how that was going to go down beforehand

That dude's reaction after Miyazaki drops that bomb on him is 100% priceless.

Also, that Christmas song is now my new favorite thing.

she's likely from Miyazaki's team? but yeah, his response is so punishing and they look like their hero just told them to fuck off, which he did.
I hear what he's saying though! they're telling him "we're trying to build you in a lab" and his response is "fuck off", which seems about right.

miyazaki thing is amazing wow

also huge lols at the AI zombies grotesquely dragging their limbs and moving around in their demo

ouch

I was like, "O u made a DEAD SPACE cutscene 8 years too late, gj!"

lol otm

hahahahaha

holy shit the pan around the room after he tells them that

The documentary then cut to Miyazaki back at his drawing board as he says, “I feel like the last day of Earth is close.”

http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2016/11/15/hayao-miyazaki-blasts-animators-on-nhk-over-ai-generated-zombie-clip/

that is an earth-shattering moment to be sure

https://twitter.com/SFist/status/809144129384910848

someone put this company out of business already plz

fuck a self-driving car.

drive a self-fucking car.

xp: wrong thread: Objectum-sexuals

somebody find the thread with the guy who likes to fuck tailpipes who posted indignantly on here that he likes to fuck tailpipes and then posted pix of him fucking tailpipes and everybody was like "cool bro, post here more often" and then dude/sock just disappeared... in a cloud of exhaust you might say

bring on the swing riots imo

Tailpipe Man blog

thank u

never forget

http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/APNewsBreak-California-to-Uber-Stop-10796839.php

https://twitter.com/mikarv/status/809709581182074880

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzyqkKBWQAAtvUp.jpg

oh that is some good shit

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Czyp0yhWgAAFrA0.jpg:large

surprised this hasn't been linked yet - really interesting (and long)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FArtificial%20Intelligence&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0

I just read that. Thought it was pretty good, though not sure why the author felt compelled to get in a dig at John Searle at the end.

I attended a lecture by Y4nn L3Cun a few years ago where he hyped his work on “woman with sunglasses” for 10+ minutes without showing any images. When he finally showed an image the entire audience started laughing and he meekly admitted “we’re still working out the kinks …”

Times article is pretty good. I appreciate the credit given to Jeff Dean since he usually receives very little since he isn’t an academic. But he’s done more for machine learning than most.

personality https://twitter.com/ycombinator/status/808763578736119809

can it build a personality for me

I thought that article was OK but it made the whole enterprise seem much more like magic than it really is. In particular, if you play around with word2vec for a few hours you will quickly see that it doesn't feel at all like something that "knows what words mean." The cool thing about Translate is that you can make bad but readable translations very quickly and cheaply without anything that feels like artificial intelligence.

i got a few hundred words into that times piece and lost the will to live. adding longform my list of american artforms that are an embarrassment to a great country (the list is now longform and improv comedy)

the problem is when someone started calling it "longform" and not…"reporting" or "feature writing" or something

imo articles should not be any longer than they have to be to get the point across

it's like when I did proof-heavy mathematics class in college and didn't actually know how to finish so I just extrapolated from the start and back from the end and wrote as much stuff as I possibly could

The Times piece might not be so great, but the new Google translate is as remarkable as it's made out to be, imo. Try running some foreign language poetry through it; all the examples I've tried so far turn out more beautiful (it seems to me) than existing human translations.

Uh, but part of that is that I've always been adamantly opposed to translators who translate poetry "poetically", if you know what I mean

tastes differ

another insurmountable hurdle for self-driving cars

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/12/self_driving_cars_will_exacerbate_organ_shortages.html

perhaps the cost of using a self-driving vehicle could be changed to address the organ donation shortage problem. every 100 rides, you have to donate an organ of your own choice; or every 500th ride you must donate an organ of their choosing

As long as I get a badge for it.

50 Kidney Points for taking the slow lane, only (21 years, 4 months, 3 days, 6 hours) to that transplant! Keep trying!

I thought organs were supposed to get their own "grow operations" too

AI: comin' for all yer jobs.

I am sorrowful that caek never got to see me do improv comedy.

Watch two Google Homes discuss the meaning of life on Twitch

This is... pretty weird.

so much of this crap feels like solutions to problems that aren't really that important (or are even non-existent)

Absolutely.