BLACK MIRROR
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
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― the late great, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/no-facebook-did-not-panic-and-shut-down-an-ai-program-1797414922
i spend a lot of time fearing some of the repercussions of AI, especially to the extent that they're controlled by corporations.
but for once i'll revive this with a positive thought, which is that i can't fucking WAIT until the day that we can speak directly to people who speak other languages and have everything automatically translated for us so quickly that we barely have to pause. that is something that i think will happen very soon, definitely within my lifetime and probably within 5-10 years, and it will truly be life changing for many many people.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
Doesn't google translate already do that?
― Dan I., Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
yeah, exactly! i guess i mean cranking the voice recognition up a notch and and integrating it into more devices and platforms worldwide so that it's just kind of expected that both parties to the cross-language conversation will be familiar with the tech and ready to go. like right now, i could skype with someone in italy and awkwardly record what the other person says and dump it into google translate and then come up with my response and dump it back into translate and send it back over (or do it all via text, slightly faster), but it would be weird and cumbersome, and at the beginning of the call there would be awkward moments as we establish the procedure. but in the translation AI dreamworld, the call starts, i say hello, the other person automatically hears "ciao", they respond and I automatically hear "who the fuck are you, how did you get my #?" or whatever. the dream
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link
uh Karl the google translate app does that, you speak and when you pause it repeats what you just said in another language
― mh, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 04:39 (seven years ago) link
I guess you mean real-time overlay but it’s a little smarter in that it does sentence grammar things because languages put subject/verb/predicate in different orders
― mh, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 04:40 (seven years ago) link
Well shoot, we are living in a dream. I guess the tech is already there but the social norms haven't adjusted (It still seems ridiculous to bust out a phone to use google translate in the heat of the moment)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 04:59 (seven years ago) link
Karl, maybe this is more like what you intended: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/AC/Baidu-s-talking-translator-gives-tourists-a-hand
I definitely wouldn't use it to discuss trade secrets or anything (although I suppose that's true with Google Translate, too).
― Dan I., Monday, 25 September 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
lolhttps://matome.naver.jp/odai/2150702724725936101
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 6 October 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
actually howzabout this Karl:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/google-pixel-buds-are-wireless-earbuds-that-translate-conversations-in-real-time/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 6 October 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
Now that’s what I’m talking about. Ooooh yeah, that’s the stuff. Wave of the future.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 6 October 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
i wanna know if those work with an iphone because if so, sold
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 6 October 2017 23:53 (six years ago) link
While FAR better than hand gestures and hesitant exchanges in pidgin, there's still enough slack in both voice recognition and Google Translate that it will be years before they get those Pixel Buds past the stage of making comical errors. Intriguing, though, and definitely the wave of the future.
They need to rig it so the Pixel phone's onboard speaker can get in on the act, too.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 7 October 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link
so we can use two pixels to bounce a dirty word back and forth in two languages of course
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 7 October 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
https://medium.com/kylevogt/how-were-solving-the-lidar-problem-8b4363ff30db
― Karl Malone, Monday, 9 October 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
SAN FRANCISCO — The self-driving car is edging closer to becoming driverless.Waymo, the autonomous car company from Google’s parent company Alphabet, has started testing a fleet of self-driving vehicles without any backup drivers on public roads, its chief executive said Tuesday. The tests, which will include passengers within the next few months, mark an important milestone that brings autonomous vehicle technology closer to operating without any human intervention.Dozens of companies are testing self-driving technology on public roads across the United States and some autonomous features are available in today’s cars. But Waymo is believed to be the first company to test vehicles on public roads without a driver ready to take over in an emergency.
Waymo, the autonomous car company from Google’s parent company Alphabet, has started testing a fleet of self-driving vehicles without any backup drivers on public roads, its chief executive said Tuesday. The tests, which will include passengers within the next few months, mark an important milestone that brings autonomous vehicle technology closer to operating without any human intervention.
Dozens of companies are testing self-driving technology on public roads across the United States and some autonomous features are available in today’s cars. But Waymo is believed to be the first company to test vehicles on public roads without a driver ready to take over in an emergency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/technology/waymo-autonomous-cars.html
edging closer to saving many lives
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
Ironically, hands free driving will likely lead to a lot of in car edging
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 07:53 (six years ago) link
it's like rain on your wedding dayit's a hands-free ride when you've already edged
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
i wonder if the engineers have thought about what to do about the rise in masturbation in driverless cars
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
the LIDAR is powered by a thermoelectric mitten in a system that just assumes you will always be masturbating
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
karl you are winning today
― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
those sensors have to work with just as much accuracy pointed inwards if they want to avoid being a fleet of mobile toilets
― Simon H., Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
every day is a new opportunity
similar to how a solution to secure voting systems might be a return to paper ballots, maybe driverless taxies will just install a security camera pointing at the passenger and a sign saying "you're on camera!".
this is all pretty gross but i kind of like this idea of a really seedy driverless future
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
anonymous cam-porn in driverless ubers is a million dollar idea waiting to happen
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
do we have a "million dollar idea waiting to happen" thread? i should get on that.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Driverless-shuttle-bus-crashes-after-launch-in-12342316.php
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 9 November 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
whoahttps://i.imgur.com/Z9LzJXV.png
(full video at https://imgur.com/gallery/zzQv0NB)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 17 November 2017 05:07 (six years ago) link
(see also https://imgur.com/gallery/zzQv0NB)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 17 November 2017 05:09 (six years ago) link
dammit i meant (see also https://i.imgur.com/ACwNd7Q.gifv)
^ unsettlingly like a Robocop figure.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 17 November 2017 05:39 (six years ago) link
There should be a HMB subreddit for robots.
― Jeff, Friday, 17 November 2017 11:45 (six years ago) link
Not quite what you're asking for, but there is https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyrobots/https://i.imgur.com/e7qOJXE.gifv
― Øystein, Friday, 17 November 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
Gah, gifv doesn't work here, I guess? ShittyØystein
https://hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6
NY Attorney General Schneiderman estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans’ identities were stolen and used in spam campaigns that support repealing net neutrality. My research found at least 1.3 million fake pro-repeal comments, with suspicions about many more. In fact, the sum of fake pro-repeal comments in the proceeding may number in the millions. In this post, I will point out one particularly egregious spambot submission, make the case that there are likely many more pro-repeal spambots yet to be confirmed, and estimate the public position on net neutrality in the “organic” public submissions.Key Findings:One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions.There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal comments into the system.It’s highly likely that more than 99% of the truly unique comments³ were in favor of keeping net neutrality.
Key Findings:One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions.There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal comments into the system.It’s highly likely that more than 99% of the truly unique comments³ were in favor of keeping net neutrality.
https://i.imgur.com/Gzmg6ph.png
― Karl Malone, Friday, 24 November 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
can we just agree that computers were mainly a bad idea?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 November 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
Absolutely
― .oO (silby), Friday, 24 November 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
i'm a computer stop all the downloading
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 25 November 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rD2b2lmIS4
o_O
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 4 December 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
Sure, when SHE talks about her emotions people want to listen
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 4 December 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
so, chess is over then
https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-stockfish-in-100-game-match
― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
actually these games are stunning to watch
― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
“...The ability of a machine to replicate and surpass centuries of human knowledge in complex closed systems is a world-changing tool."Barf no it isn’t Solve climate change and peace in the Middle East you fucking drips
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
Maybe they can AlphaZero saving littoral biodiversity I mean if that’s not a complex closed system what is
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
Otm ^
Current humanoids are rudimentary as best, more of a PR opp for investors. Guy who said they're lobotomized cockroaches was right
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
so tired of these cockroaches beating my chess algorithms after learning chess in 4 hours
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
i know the underdamped oscillations of our convergence to reality pass through that reality at some point, but we never seem to sample anywhere near it itt
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
what are 'humanoids' in this context?
― Dan I., Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
ah, sorrry, I missed the robot thing above