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It can learn from you and from other people, plus it has a vast internal knowledge base so it will know something that you don't know.

While it can answer your questions and check your understanding (it's a First Order Logic application), I haven't thought of the educational applications but I don't see why not... Thank you for bringing this up.

Customer support, personal intelligence assistants, virtual "friends", game characters, toys (software and "real" ones) are all things that come to mind first.

Also, possibly medical applications? Eliza (the first known chatbot) was built to simulate a Rogerian psychologist and was quite convincing for its time (1960s)...

What else would you use it for?

I agree that making chatbots passing the Turing Test will probably be something so common in the future that it will be a student project of medium complexity.

However, we are not there yet. If someone had this today, how valuable would this be to Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon?

As for the definition of what the Turing Test is, it's definitely a fuzzy subject. My own arbitrary definition is "ability to convince a human that he's talking to another human after a sustained (based on time or length of) conversation whereas human is aware that there's a possibility that his interlocutor maybe a machine".

So, it's more of convincing a judge in Loebner Prize competition than a random troll on Twitter.

How one would use such technology? Let me rephrase - how would YOU use this technology if you had it?

Imagine you have a bot that convincingly passes the Turing test - what would you do with it?

Build a chatbot business? B2C or B2B?

Sell it to one of the big companies and if yes then how much do you think it would go for?

Give it to OpenAI? Open source it? If you answer yes to any of this questions, then why?

Edit: let me qualify - this would not be AGI, just a much more advanced bot than whatever is currently on the market.

I'm curious why only students can apply? Why not allow individual developers or companies as well?

It probably depends on the stage of your life. I had a house with backyard when I was single and didn't use it much.

Now, I have family and kids and totally enjoy having it even though I only get to use it 4-5 months out of the year: - kids spend a lot of time there on the trampoline - my wife has an organic garden and beautiful flowers - my dog chases rabbits and squirrels - enjoy being outside without having to go to a park (reading books, playing with my kids) - family gatherings, BBQs and etc

There's no way I'm going back to living in an apartment or even a townhouse with no backyard unless I really have to...

Not necessarily, I got the link from Google and still saw the paywall when going through regular Chrome mode. However, once I opened the same referrer link in incognito mode, I was able to see the article.

Looks like WSJ is now using cookies to decide whether to show paywall or not.

Awesome! Elixir is quickly becoming my new go to language for the web apps and more.

Come for concurrency, stay for metaprogramming. :-)

Another fantastic piece from Kevin Poulsen. I really enjoyed his book "Kingpin" and this article continues the tradition.

If anyone wonders, how an editor at Wired manages to get all the technical details right, this Wikipedia article will help [1].

TLDR: Kevin is a former black hat hacker - caught, sentenced, served time who has since become a great journalist and author.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Poulsen

Ok, it might be the end of the day for me and I'm denser than usual, but I can't understand what is this? Ocaml to JS transpiler?

Checked this out, but the reason still eludes me: https://ocaml.io/w/Blog:News/A_new_Reason_for_OCaml (pun intended)

Reading this article, brought back memories of this 1986 film about trucks going homicidal that Stephen King's directed himself:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091499/

Looked ridiculous back then, does not seem so any more.

Imagine a new class of malware that turns our vehicles into weapons for criminal and terrorism purposes. Imagine this conversation in a sitcom about near future:

Honey, did you update antivirus on the car? Some script kiddie just destroyed our neighbours car - thankfully they weren't in it...

Yeah, I know it won't really work this way - OTA updates and etc, but try to picture this from the layman perspective.

Say what you will about languages that compile to JS, but Elm code looks so elegant that I just want to use it for aesthetics alone. Major kudos to Evan for such a wonderful and powerful creation.

Founders, put this in your notebooks if you ever come to the situation where you ask yourself "but can I do that?". Apparently, yes, you can! [1]

[1] except for those cases where you did not succeed to retain control of the company from the beginning...

A pretty generic letter with nothing new that the HN crowd would not know.

Cool product, but I don't see any reason to upgrade from Kindle Paperwhite that would warrant spending additional ~$300 on.

Paperwhite is just good enough across all of the key dimensions - size, weight, screen resolution and battery life for the users who don't run after the latest and greatest.

It's licensed under MIT license.

This is a very welcome development. The Bot Framework and Connector take care of lots of plumbing that bot developers otherwise would have to develop and run themselves and would (theoretically) allow developers focus on what their bots valuable.

All of this under MIT license - thank you, Microsoft!

Thank you for the answers, Umur. I've used both Vertica and ParAccel in production environments for the traditional Data Warehousing projects and have come to appreciate both good and the bad that analytic RDBMS engines bring to the table.

Currently, my favorite is Vertica, but I do have concerns about its future under the stewardship of HPE.

I'm quite interested in what Citus brings to the market and will be following its progress closely. Once you have a more rounded story for the traditional Data Warehousing purposes, I can recommend it to my clients for evaluation purposes.

In terms of a sweet spot for you, here's a free tip for your sales: target customers of Unica (well, IBM Unica now). That's one application that would definitely benefit from your Operational Analytics positioning - lots of data ingested throughout the day, lots of queries to run for the analytics.

This is awesome! Tebrikler (congrats) on the release of 5.0 and going OS, definitely great news.

Can you publish competitive positioning of Citus vs Actian Matrix (nee ParAccel) and Vertica? I'd love to compare them side by side - even if it's just from your point of view :-)

No illusions of passing the Turing test, at least for now. And indeed, the manner of speech is highly annoying. I do hope MSFT has other personalities ready...

Yep, I read the article and that's why I said that I hope that they open source it eventually, since it's not open source now...

Looks interesting, but I'm not sure how much traction this will get outside of King.

Compared to the competition, such as Corona SDK, King will have to work real hard to build a community and ecosystem around Defold.

In 2016, having a great technology alone is not enough to get traction in game dev, all other parts of the ecosystem matter a lot: language, plugins (own and third party), art assets, tutorials (written and video), books, mind share retaining efforts (podcasts, events and etc).

Unity got this quite right, others are working hard to catch up (Unreal, Corona in 2D space).

Being open source is a huge boost as well, in terms of flexibility of development as well as peace of mind for the third party devs that the owner of the engine won't switch to the dark side with the next leadership change or simply let the technology get obsolete by not releasing new versions any more.

Still, I welcome this, Defold is a cool engine - hope that King open sources this eventually.

TLDR: a neovim user discovers that he can use it as terminal multiplexer instead of constantly switching between neovim and tmux.

"Daemon" and its sequel "Freedom TM" were awesome, totally support the recommendation. Small nitpick, the software that took over the world (a form on narrow AI, think scripting on steroids) was developed by a genius game developer (in my head looking totally like John Carmack) not a security expert.

Very interesting, I've never run into this, but I never used DX. For the simple example of 0.1+0.2, Lua does return 0.3 on Windows and OSX.

Distribution of violence makes the differences: taxes are applied to the majority and there's an established and predictable pattern for this way of wealth transfer from the populace to the government, while stop seizures apply to a very small group but in a much more impactful (for that group) way in an unpredictable manner.

I don't think there's any Redux coverage in this course

Here's the quote from the site:

Does this video series cover Flux? Redux? Fluxible? Reflux? Alt? Flummox? Marty.js? McFly? Lux? Material Flux? Nuclear.js? Fluxette? Flipity Flop? Fluppity Floop?

React is amazing in that there are many libraries that work really well with it. While those libraries are fantastic, they may add unnecessary abstractions when learning.

So, this course is focused on you absolutely nailing React and walking away feeling confident in your understanding, hungry to learn and build more.

Thank you for your reply.

No sarcasm in my statement at all. For the past several years, I've been looking for a personal knowledge management application that would work for me and now I'm seriously thinking about just writing it because I can't find one.

I'll probably write one even if I can't make a business out of it, because I need it. I'm also curious about the business potential and have been asking people in my personal network.

Evernote's pricing seems like a good benchmark - I heard that from several people already.

How much would you be willing to pay for this software? Available on all desktop and mobile platforms, with flawless synchronization and ridiculously good search capabilities?

This stuff is straight out of "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. What's next? Facebook powered Metaverse and bikers with sovereign status because they pack personal nuclear weapons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash