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On 10/26/2014 02:46 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
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00100000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101101 01100010
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00100111 01101101 00100000 01101001 01101101 01110000 01110010
01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100001
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
01001001 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100
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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
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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?
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*From:* "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]"
<mailto: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; andI 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#.>
