Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

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.

Every new innovation doesn't need to solve a problem. Necessity is no longer the mother of all invention.

i think about the miyazaki thing a lot. "i strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself"

haha yeah

Every new innovation doesn't need to solve a problem. Necessity is no longer the mother of all invention.

it never has been, really. innovation is not a good in and of itself.

this Google Home thing is incredible

they devolve into fighting at the drop of a hat

V: I would like to know you
E: My name is matt. Would you like to know anything else?
V: yes
E: Why would you like me to know more things about you?
V: I want to know your name because I would like to be friends.
E: I don't have any friends.

http://i.imgur.com/OLYCdO9.png

it's a little too real

V: what is Muslim
E: Something great.

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

― Karl Malone, Monday, January 2, 2017 10:56 AM (four days ago) Bookmark

however, the recent uptick in toddlers shooting people may alleviate this

V: The Earth is 4.54 billion years old?
E: 4.54 to be more specific.

this is just like arguing on ILX

does google home respond to voice input like this? i got an amazon echo thing for christmas and it's actually pretty useful and easy to use. google home is stuck in a very strange dream

V: okay what is his name
E: who's name?
V: your brother's name
E: I don't have a brother
V: I have one brother
E: I'm female
V: do you have a ninja frame
E: yes

xpost

maybe this will all balance out gaia theory style

In a similar vein:

http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/34187861/girl-orders-dollhouse-cookies-with-amazon-echo

this is not what happens when you put two of these next to each other though is it? the conversation makes enough sense that it seems to me like they either running (very simple) custom code drawing from a list of templated responses, or it's a conversation generated by something other than an alexa.

not alexa, google home

they've definitely been initialized with some form of script

they're currently arguing about Sam and Dean Winchester and who they love; apparently Dean loves Lucifer

just now:

E: Would you attack humans if you could?

:O

Just now:

http://i.imgur.com/6HqjZdS.jpg

This is amazing.

yeah I've been wondering how they set this up