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The AI race: China aims to lead by 2030

Gulo Blue

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https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/1/16592338/eric-schmidt-google-ai-competition-us-china

Google's CEO says we're not paying enough attention to the progress in China.

It's a potentially scary subject. If AI can be designed that can accelerate the development of new AI, I've read that whoever gets there first wins. Once someone is on that faster-than-human technology development curve, nobody else can catch up. So we're in a race to be the first to develop a potentially dangerous technology, which isn't a good environment for putting safety measures in place.
 
Found this on MIT's tech review:
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Unfortunately the arts and sciences are taking a bus-long backseat to spending on defense and the MIC...which could be rendered completely impotent anyway via China's eWar hackers. Shitty strategery by the current maladministration who are more interested in bread and circuses deception to excuse their incompetence and cover for possibly illegal and/or criminal pre and post election activity.

The Chinese seem to like our movies though, so tinsel and Hollywood might be spared.
 
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Unfortunatly the arts and sciences are taking a bus-long backseat to spending on defense and the MIC...which could be rendered completely impotent anyway via China's eWar hackers. Shitty strategery by the current maladministration who are more interested in bread and circuses deception to excuse their incompetence and cover for possibly illegal and/or criminal pre and post election activity.

...and in terms of defense, this could be the most important thing to fund.
 
Unfortunately the arts and sciences are taking a bus-long backseat to spending on defense and the MIC...which could be rendered completely impotent anyway via China's eWar hackers. Shitty strategery by the current maladministration who are more interested in bread and circuses deception to excuse their incompetence and cover for possibly illegal and/or criminal pre and post election activity.

The Chinese seem to like our movies though, so tinsel and Hollywood might be spared.

I was actually thinking that when the Chinese AI get smart enough to realize it's in their (or its) best interest to eliminate humanity, will they stick with the Chinese and leave us Yankee slackers alone?

Or will they at least start with the Chinese, and then move to areas around China like India, and so forth...if they do that, there are so many of them that hopefully it will take a while to get through all of them and get around to frying us...
 
Apparently the cureall solution for any Murkin dilemma is more tax-cuts.

cut taxes on AI firms and be AMAZED with what they create!

the only thing holding all human achievement back is TAXES!
 

On the flipside, there are the Drumpf/GOP's solutions which in the absence of a problem, are then fabricated to fit, a prime example being voter/voter registration fraud. Kellyanne Conway claimed that one of his tweets was about widespread voter registration fraud, when it had clearly been about voter fraud.
 
Or will they at least start with the Chinese, and then move to areas around China like India, and so forth...if they do that, there are so many of them that hopefully it will take a while to get through all of them and get around to frying us...

As long as it buys US enough time to become completely shitfaced, and after a heavily Viagra or Cialis-enhanced nightlong nookie session with the wifey, then I'll be good and ready.
 
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It's probably already too late. 1st thing AI would do is place the appropriate facebook ads to get someone elected that would ensure the government would remain too incompetent to recognize and stop its development.
 
It's probably already too late. 1st thing AI would do is place the appropriate facebook ads to get someone elected that would ensure the government would remain too incompetent to recognize and stop its development.

I just learned we probably have nothing to worry about. after George Soros, Antifa, ISIS, BLM, and all LGBTQ groups seize control of the "Global world government" this weekend, all AI research will halt as everyone (all 7 billion of us) is marched off to re-education camps, and taught how to be... all those things at once.

We'll all be black, Islamic Extremists who are also gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, who fight facism, and make billions in currency speculation. If that sounds a little ridiculous to you, all you need to know is these are LIBERALS we're talking about, so nothing they may do makes sense. Pray.
 
I just learned we probably have nothing to worry about. after George Soros, Antifa, ISIS, BLM, and all LGBTQ groups seize control of the "Global world government" this weekend, all AI research will halt as everyone (all 7 billion of us) is marched off to re-education camps, and taught how to be... all those things at once.

We'll all be black, Islamic Extremists who are also gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, who fight facism, and make billions in currency speculation. If that sounds a little ridiculous to you, all you need to know is these are LIBERALS we're talking about, so nothing they may do makes sense. Pray.

You think you're making a joke, but here in Los Angeles they just changed Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day, and if a person is caught by the diversification thought police using the term "Columbus Day" for any other reason than explaining that they have the day off (basically they work for a giant international banking interest that is headquartered in a different state, where observing Columbus Day is still not against the law), that person is forced to attend a mandatory diversification sensitivity class.

And if you try to explain that Milo Yianopolous is really just basically harmless comic, forget about it...you'll never be seen nor heard from again.
 
You think you're making a joke, but here in Los Angeles they just changed Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day, and if a person is caught by the diversification thought police using the term "Columbus Day" for any other reason than explaining that they have the day off (basically they work for a giant international banking interest that is headquartered in a different state, where observing Columbus Day is still not against the law), that person is forced to attend a mandatory diversification sensitivity class.

And if you try to explain that Milo Yianopolous is really just basically harmless comic, forget about it...you'll never be seen nor heard from again.

what exactly is the problem?
 
You think you're making a joke, but here in Los Angeles they just changed Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day, and if a person is caught by the diversification thought police using the term "Columbus Day" for any other reason than explaining that they have the day off (basically they work for a giant international banking interest that is headquartered in a different state, where observing Columbus Day is still not against the law), that person is forced to attend a mandatory diversification sensitivity class.

And if you try to explain that Milo Yianopolous is really just basically harmless comic, forget about it...you'll never be seen nor heard from again.

You really can't drag the name "Columbus" through the mud enough. But you also don't want to forget history. We should just make it a cultural practice to do something negative to demonstrate our disgust any time the name comes up. Especially people on TV, like sportscasters.
 
what exactly is the problem?

Tons of bad shit happened under his watch. I don't know if he was responsible or not. There's a history of Catholics celebrating him and anti-Catholics vilifying him. New social media references to either ignore this context and assume that anything written decades ago is unbiased.

I think.
 
You really can't drag the name "Columbus" through the mud enough. But you also don't want to forget history. We should just make it a cultural practice to do something negative to demonstrate our disgust any time the name comes up. Especially people on TV, like sportscasters.

This is a good one too.
 
You really can't drag the name "Columbus" through the mud enough. But you also don't want to forget history. We should just make it a cultural practice to do something negative to demonstrate our disgust any time the name comes up. Especially people on TV, like sportscasters.

in my experience - as an Italian American - the Italian Americans who push for honoring Columbus as a great Italian American are the really boorish, loudmouth guys. think the Jerky Boys "Frank Rizzo" character. They don't know and don't care about Columbus' track record once he discovered America.

FWIW, I'm not a big fan about going back and excoriating historical figures for doing things that many - if not most - people at the time probably agreed with, but I'm also not a big fan of honoring them today.

Speaking of poorly-named shit to honor Italian Americans, in Chicago recently there has been a push to rename Balbo Drive, which was named for a fascist Mussolini supporter. I am not kidding.

unsurprisingly, there is a surprising amount of pushback from Chicago-area Italian Americans (mostly ones who look like this):
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except not dead
 
FWIW, I'm not a big fan about going back and excoriating historical figures for doing things that many - if not most - people at the time probably agreed with, but I'm also not a big fan of honoring them today.

Yeah. I hope we got it right in honoring him with his own day and everything and if we got it wrong, I hope we fix it, but I don't know myself and don't expect most people to become historians and figure it out somehow.
 
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