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Wed, Oct 5th 2011 5:00pm — Michael Ho

The "Singularity" describes a future when technology obtains superhuman intelligence -- and when people won't be able to outwit their technological creations. So far, humans have lost to computers playing chess and Jeopardy! (and a few other games) -- but machines aren't our overlords just yet. Here are a few more datapoints pointing to better and better artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence projects are slowly encroaching into the fields of science.. and law. We'll have to automate the creation of bad lawyer jokes to keep up. [url]
Ray Kurzweil predicts automated language translations that are as good as human translations by the year 2029 I predict there will be exponential growth of hilariously bad translated text in 2030. [url]
Workplace robots could be more helpful if they just had better machine vision. Industrial robots could expand beyond repetitive tasks if they could see and recognize changes. [url]
Maybe we can distract our future computerized masters by pitting them against each other (playing Ms Pac-Man?). The only winning move is not to play... [url]
To discover more interesting robot-related content, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]

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Anonymous Coward, 5 Oct 2011 @ 11:21pm

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He provided the example of music, a field he worked in extensively, and the negative reaction of musicians' unions to synthesizers in the 1980s, driven by fears that these working professionals would lose the opportunity to make money. As Kurzweil pointed out, instead of losing the ability to make money, their profession simply evolved. "If you go to a music conference now, it's like a computer conference with these very powerful musical tools where musicians can command a whole orchestra, and so forth, and actually do a lot more with the technology. In fact, music is more vibrant than ever and musicians are very much in demand."

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nataly-kelly/ray-kurzweil-on-translati_b_875745.html

That can't be right, he said musicians evolved. Apparently he doesn't know the musicians from the RIAA.
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Strawbear (profile), 6 Oct 2011 @ 2:59am

I'm assuming any computer anywhere outwitting my mother?
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Strawbear (profile), 6 Oct 2011 @ 2:59am

I'm assuming any computer anywhere outwitting my mother doesn't count?
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- Michael Ho (profile), 6 Oct 2011 @ 6:15pm
  
  Re:
  Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.
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    darryl, 7 Oct 2011 @ 2:26am
    
    Re: Re:
    Micheal WTF are you talking about ?????
    
    (were they 'single' words).
    
    A single word cannot be a 'description'
    
    Michael what is the implication of the statement you made?
    
    You can use "MULTIPLE" words to explain it if you like.
    
    Michael describle in sigle words ANYTHING FREAKING THING ?
    
    Oh what you cant do that, oh my you had better have a long talk to your mother............
    
    Here are some single words for you, but they do not describe my mother (deceased) or father (deceased). But probably quite well explains yourself...
    
    Mr HO..
    
    Moron
    idiot
    troll
    fool
    wanker
    dick
    fuckwit
    
    shall I continue?, or have you got the point (apart from the one on your head)!!!
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    - Michael Ho (profile), 7 Oct 2011 @ 11:12am
      
      Re: Re: Re:
      Darryl,
      
      Either you've never see the movie Blade Runner.. or you've just failed the Voigt-Kampff test... or you have a really strange sense of humor....
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Voight-Kampff_machine
      
      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0 083658/quotes
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_204tXHZY
      
      My previous comment is just a quote from that movie... and it was for Strawbear.
      
      In answer to your query, these questions are written down for me....
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      - Anonymous Coward, 8 Oct 2011 @ 5:25pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re:
        "My previous comment is just a quote from that movie"
        
        Original !!!!
        
        Yes, I have seen blade runner, but I have never bothered to memorize is word for word, I guess I have a life instead !
        
        And I thought the HAL 9000 was from a DIFFERENT Movie!!!!
        
        I'll give you are computer quote from a movie "THE DISH"
        regarding their navigation computer (for Apollo 11)
        
        "are we stuffed ??" ..... "Yep, were stuffed"
        
        Oh, and I upset someone's sensitivities !!! oh dear, go crying home did you ??
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HAL9000, 6 Oct 2011 @ 4:57am

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
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Anonymous Coward, 6 Oct 2011 @ 9:03am

HAL = IBM
I wonder if anyone here has worked out that
HAL 9000

+1 (char/number) = IBM 9001

That Kubric !!!! what will he think off next !!!

H + 1 = I
A + 1 = B
L + 1 = M

9000 + 1 = 9001
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- Anonymous Coward, 24 Sep 2020 @ 7:21am
  
  Re: HAL = IBM
  Both Clarke and Kubrick have gone on record saying that the HAL/IBM connection is coincidence and it actually stands for Heuristic ALgorithm, which incidentally is the basis of a lot of current machine learning programs.
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Peter Kinnon (profile), 7 Oct 2011 @ 2:39pm

"Singularity"
Within the context of a broad evolutionary model for which there is good evidence the "singularity" is better considered as a "phase transition" to the next stage in nature's on-going life process.
This model is very informally discussed in "The Goldilocks Effect: What Has Serendipity Ever Done For Us?" (free download in e-book formats from the "Unusual Perspectives" website)
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