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As long as "it" (whatever "it" is) drives my RV to Chincoteague for me I'll be good.
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Hard to resist, so I am going with the advice given Dustin Hoffman in the 'Graduate': "Plastics" I like this thread... thought provoking posts....
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In short, we have been and will continue to replace humans in jobs where we are not yet ready to give them real and useful alternatives IMHO or truly support their transition and a new productive life...obvious risks for society here. Makes what happened in the steel towns and garment towns in the 70s and 80s (drugs, lots of crime, etc...) in the US look tame due to the much larger scale. This is a great and very thought-provoking thread. |
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There is no correctness to what one prefers but my post spoke to what I quoted and it's a bit inane of the author to assume that all what to move to far off areas. In fact, if this were true, the far off areas would be expensive rather than an urban area like NYC. I knows tons of folks that moved to the furthest suburbs, all did it because they could not afford the same in the city or closer suburbs. Nothing cynical about a preference. Mine nor yours. |
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This is one of those great threads that borders on benifitting from this...harkens back to college daze having those "deep" conversations...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9splyD35cII https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9splyD35cII Last edited by SCAudiophile; 10-09-2017 at 05:00 AM. |
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Let's hypothetically say "technology/AI/robots" are readily available, feasible and implementable to carry out tasks of all kinds that replace human labor for better efficiency and profits for businesses. In no time, masses will be unemployed looking for government hand outs or that Universal Basic Income... What will that mean? Surely UBI will not be enough to sustain a house in the burbs and a Mercedes in the driveway... Will it be enough to buy any of those products that those robot implementing businesses are offering? Will that cook that was replaced by a food prepping robot be able to walk back into that restaurant that replaced him and buy a meal on a consistent basis or will UBI be barely enough to get a bowl of rice??? All very interesting questions... |
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Escapism and Distraction https://localinternetmarketinggroup....-roman-empire/ Last edited by PHC1; 10-09-2017 at 09:25 PM. |
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Humanity was dealt a decisive blow by a poker-playing artificial intelligence program called Polaris during the Man-Machine Poker Competition in Las Vegas.
The key to Polaris' poker prowess last weekend was a tactical shift in midstream designed to prevent human's from exploiting perceived weaknesses. Add to that, Polaris learned from experience. "There are two really big changes in Polaris over last year," said professor Michael Bowling, who supervised graduate students who programmed Polaris. "First of all, our poker model is much expanded over last year--its much harder for humans to exploit weaknesses. And secondly, we have added an element of learning, where Polaris identifies which common poker strategy a human is using and switches its own strategy to counter. This complicated the human players ability to compare notes, since Polaris chose a different strategy to use against each of the humans it played. That was in 2008. Fast forward to 2017. "The best AI’s ability to do strategic reasoning with imperfect information has now surpassed that of the best humans,” Libratus, an artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie Mellon University, made history by defeating four of the world’s best professional poker players in a marathon 20-day poker competition, called “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh. In a nutshell, Libratus played TRILLIONS of games against itself, in the process analyzing statistics and developing betting strategies. Oh, it also learned how to bluff... How can we trust AI that learns to lie??? This new milestone in artificial intelligence has implications for any realm in which information is incomplete and opponents sow misinformation, said Frank Pfenning, head of the Computer Science Department in CMU’s School of Computer Science. Business negotiation, military strategy, cybersecurity and medical treatment planning could all benefit from automated decision-making using a Libratus-like AI. https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/arc...oker-pros.html Last edited by PHC1; 10-09-2017 at 10:48 PM. |
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