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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : 01001001 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 00100000 01010110 01001001 01000011 00101101 00110010 00110000 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101101 01101001 01100011 01110010 01101111 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 00101110 On 10/26/2014 01:43 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : 01011001 01110101 01110000 00100001 01001100 01001111 01001100! 01001001 00100111 01100100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01101100 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101001 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100100 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00101110 On 10/26/2014 10:46 AM, salyavin808 wrote: There are only 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> mailto:sharelong60@... wrote : Bhairitu, it does seem like everything is binary even at the most fundamental levels: matter and energy; yin and yang; crest and trough of waves; impulses traveling via go and stop. On Sunday, October 26, 2014 11:42 AM, "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Funny, you know I hang out around TV circles and forums and I don't recall anyone saying that "Person of Interest" made history. Perhaps your grandfatherly crush on Ms Acker is clouding your judgment a bit. :-D I caught an episode or two when it started but thought it was typical formulaic American TV and I had much better things to watch. But as far as being predictive even the title is something that emerged with the rise of the American Fascist State after 9/11 with our Nazi-like Homeland Security and Patriot Act. You're forgetting "A Scanner Darkly" which predates that show not to mention "1984" and even Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", not to mention numerous science fiction novels and short stories. In a way I thought that "Person of Interest" was trying to acclimatize Americans to the idea of constantly being watched. Right now they're trying to foment a lot of fear over ISIS and Ebola to take away even more of our civil liberties. Folks, don't stand for it. Of course now we can watch the neighborhood ourselves as more and more of us get surveillance cameras being that the systems are affordable and don't require some monthly extortion fee from a security company. Funny thing there as a kid in the 1950s I would get the yearly Allied Radio catalog where I would buy electronic kits to build. But my dream thing to own back then in the late 1950s was a $300 TV camera they sold. It's main use was for business owners to hook up to a TV as a security camera. Needless to say I never came up with the $300. As for AI, it could very well be a danger. After all the intellect is binary, just "yes" or "no". At the company I worked for in the 1990s a team was trying to build a product that would emulate human behavior. They were doing so by processing a long list of memes. I told them that was too complicated and mentioned that the intellect was binary and the human mind not that complicated. They thought I was nuts until one of our project leads came across a graduate paper published by a Berkeley student which demonstrated just that. The product shipped with just a few variables which reliably did emulate human behavior. Where did my idea come from? Indian philosophy. On 10/26/2014 03:41 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The most intelligent examination of AI in the entertainment world these days is a TV show called "Person Of Interest," created by Jonathon Nolan. Nolan is the brother of Christopher Nolan, and was co-writer of many of his big hits, such as "The Dark Night," "The Dark Knight Rises," "The Prestige," and the short story on which his brother's "Memento" was based. He'll also be the writer of his brother's upcoming "Interstellar," already getting great reviews in previews. "Person Of Interest" made history by predicting a complex arrangement of computers and closed-circuit TV and surveillance equipment so vast and so uncontrolled that it could watch literally every minute of our lives. Interestingly, Nolan did this and put it on mainstream TV *before* Snowdon blew the whistle and revealed that the NSA had this ability in real life and was *already* watching pretty much every moment of our lives. The main difference in "Person Of Interest" is that the force behind all of this uber-surveillance is "the machine," an AI developed by Harold Finch (Michael Emerson from "Lost"). In the early seasons this AI gains sentience and begins to help Finch and his associates keep normal people from harm. But in the last two seasons it's taken a far darker turn, as a competing AI has entered the picture, and now they are dueling in cyberspace, trying to establish dominance. It's actually a fun and entertaining series. I particularly like Amy Acker as Root, a brilliant computer nerd/psychopath who first starts as an enemy of "the machine" and who later becomes its disciple. Yes, disciple. It "sees all, and knows all," so what, after all, distinguishes it from God? From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 11:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the Machines The dangers of human intelligence are known well enough. Maybe we should try something different? The problem is we are creating AI, if it mimics us, we can expect it to do the things we do. Regardless of whether we regard machines as conscious or not (an unanswered philosophical question), machines can be aware of their environment in a mechanistic sense (suspiciously like how we are aware of our environment). A real AI machine would be a self learner and how dangerous such a machine might be would probably be determined how autonomously it can function in the world and how complex its neural net is. This has been the fodder of science fiction (Colossus:The Forbin Project; 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Terminator series of motion pictures) where the technology goes awry. On the other hand science fiction has positive examples of this (City; The Bicentennial Man; The City and the Stars; and I Robot to name a few novels) where artificial intelligence is generally presented as beneficial in relation to biological organisms. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> mailto:jr_esq@... wrote : Elon Musk warns of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Is he right? http://www.cnbc.com/id/102121127?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cheadline%7Cstory&par=yahoo&doc=102121127#. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102121127?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cheadline%7Cstory&par=yahoo&doc=102121127#.
