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Now that's an excuse if I ever heard one. "Uhh... we weren't seriously trying... uhh..."
That's also why I'm not dating Natalie Portman!
> Considering that trying to build strong AI is a pipedream anyway (IMHO)
That's hilarious. Heavier-than-air flying machines, a man on the Moon, sending pictures through invisible AIRWAVES?!? Pipe dreams!
Meanwhile humans farm gold and solve CAPTCHAs.
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I thought the terms were confidential. They really got 18?!? Now I am trying to decide if that really pisses me off to no end or not!
Hopeless? Doc, are you telling me there's no cure?!?
In fact, when most people talk about AI, they mean it in the sense of, "do you think computers will one day be as intelligent as humans?". Cf. the moviefilm "AI". If that kind of AI is what you wish to pursue, then the so-called field of AI isn't going to get you there.
I'm reclaiming the term AI for actual AI from the minority that's misusing it and we're having a Pride march on the 23rd. Wheel out your servers and "represent".
I LIKE TURTLES
If you don't learn everything, then you must have some independent criterion with which to pick and choose; and having such a facility, one may as well simply start down whichever path one feels is most appropriate anyway.
In other words, if you can somehow rule out large swaths of possibilities without even trying them, then you must have some intuitive feel for the problem (or at least, have an intuitive feel for what you think the solution is likely to resemble, whether or not you turn out to be correct). In such a case, you are investigating based on your own intimations and your efforts will develop from there, rather than from from a top-down view -- which has so far been amply demonstrated not to work.
Edit: The recommendation to look "everywhere" is untenable, because at some point you have to stop casting about if you are going to get anything done yourself.
Bill: Dude, are we better than Reddit?
Ted: Like, yeah, man, totally.
Bill: Dude, like how much better?
Ted: Like a hundred times, bro!
Bill: Then we should like sell it for... like... a hundred times as much!
Ted: Whoah, do you have any idea how much weed that would buy?
[They look at each other]
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Of course a real AI would be much better at all those things you mentioned anyway -- like deciding which of my e-mail messages are spam.
Or carrying on a conversation.
P.S. I'm an AI.
https://www.alzinfo.org/newsarticle/templates/archivenewstem...
Alzheimer's is also speculatively related to CJD, i.e. mad cow. That is, many cases of Alzheimer's may actually be undiagnosed CJD. New application of existing drugs may help:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1490177.stm
Of course for prevention, and/or avoiding re-exposure, I'd avoid anything that came from a cow, or anything fed on cow parts (which pretty much means to avoid any animal product from a factory farm). U.S. food practices are exceedingly ill-advised.
Edit: I recall something about aluminum build-up in the brain, though I'm not sure of how well correlated it is.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_216a.html
Aluminum-free deodorants and baking powders are very easy considerations.
I don't think a beginner is going to create AI by "luck". But a beginner's mind is not cluttered in the same way as an expert's. This may be what it takes to get working AI.
Expert knowledge is appropriate when discussing proven solutions. AI is speculative at this point.
If you follow the classical path, you will become bogged down in the vast field of AI.
Ramanujan started from first principles and worked from there. My guess is that the person(s) who create "actual" AI will use that approach.
Cost of living. In the U.S., most college graduates can't afford to live on their own in major cities. Jobs require ever-more qualifications and advanced degrees. Productivity goes out the door and escapism comes in when you're stuck with your parents.
That housing bubble was horrible for the economy. Far from a sign of good things happening, it meant owning their own home was out of reach for the vast majority of young people. The amount of productivity and joie de vivre lost cannot be overestimated. Being stuck living with people you don't want to live with is toxic (that includes non-family members, too).
Doing something original might actually be, you know, original.
They're being sued for getting HTTP 403 error pages?
The suit alleges Facebook has suffered damages in "excess of $5,000" and has been "irreparably harmed."
D'oh, their valuation is now only 14.999995 billion.
IP fishing expeditions seem like abuse. Sounds like Facebook, flush with their +5 vorpal cash-hoard, are trying it out on lowly 1st-level NPCs.
Getting some practice throwing their weight around and bullying.
The big advantage in academia is access to prohibitively expensive equipment. What option was there for Google back then, other than using "free" university computers and bandwidth? No way they could've afforded it at 90s prices. Even though prices have fallen now for that, there's always something too pricey for a startup. What if your research involves a particle accelerator or something else you can't rent hourly from Amazon? Students can get access to resources they simply couldn't otherwise, especially in the hard sciences.
Nobody's going to rent $100k of equipment to a student with a $500 limit Mastercard. Not to mention, a week's rental would probably equal your tuition, so forget about having access to something for an entire semester.
Software startups are an anomaly. If consumer electronics didn't conveniently happen to make inroads for you (as it did with computers and video equipment), the barrier to entry for MOST technical disciplines tends to be as high as ever.
>apt-get install human-2.0
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
After delivery $2.5 million will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.