I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

[RicInOR]

" Since the Tunguska impact in Russia in 1908, despite plagues and two World Wars, the World's population doubled in 60 years. Then it has doubled again, in 50 years to the present 7 billion. Quadrupling in a little over 100 years. Just doubling of human population had taken one thousand year periods up until the 20th Century. Industrialization including the Haber process – creating the Green Revolution – is the cause. Today, industrialization and advanced technology is now idling millions of young humans leading to the violence we see. The sudden connectivity – bringing all humans into close cultural contact has stressed many cultures not prepared to adjust and tolerate diversity. " -- Tim Reyes 2015





When the robots take our jobs, what will we do?

 

[jbett98]

Fight the robots.

 

[3MTA3]

" Since the Tunguska impact in Russia in 1908, despite plagues and two World Wars, the World's population doubled in 60 years. Then it has doubled again, in 50 years to the present 7 billion. Quadrupling in a little over 100 years. Just doubling of human population had taken one thousand year periods up until the 20th Century. Industrialization including the Haber process – creating the Green Revolution – is the cause. Today, industrialization and advanced technology is now idling millions of young humans leading to the violence we see. The sudden connectivity – bringing all humans into close cultural contact has stressed many cultures not prepared to adjust and tolerate diversity. " -- Tim Reyes 2015





When the robots take our jobs, what will we do?

That's assuming no environmental feedback. It will be an "s" curve not exponential growth. Scientists and medical folks REALLY NEED to study feedback systems. It's why they at some point are invariable wrong.

 

[RicInOR]

Robot Lawyers (small issues)

Stanford Grad Who Created The World’s First ‘Robot Lawyer’ Raises $12 Million In Series A

DoNotPay, the robot lawyer company started by native Londoner, Stanford grad, and 30 under 30 honoree Josh Browder, announced today it closed a $12 million Series A at an $80 million valuation. Coatue led the round, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund and Felicis Ventures.

www.forbes.com

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[RicInOR]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1277278421119205381

 

[Dinglenutz]

Me thinks you are off by 20, 'er 15 years. 2020 - 3 yrs from now. First on known roads - all the Interstates for example.
Who can't they hire enough of? Long haul over the road drivers.

Here's what I think will happen soon. We'll see the big freight outfits invest in automated trucks with broadband connectivity, support organizations to handle things like equipment failures in the field, and a few remote centers in places where the cost of living is relatively low where a light industrial facility can be sited to house a relatively small group of driver/operators who can remotely drive any vehicles that are in distress and unable to solve some unforeseen condition. So some work will be created, but for routes where the drive is essentially warehouse->onramp->offramp->warehouse autonomous driven rigs are coming soon. They're already in use in Arizona IIRC.

 

[RicInOR]

Homeowner Gets Locked Out When the Nest Doorbell Mistakenly Identifies Him as the Batman on His T-Shirt

When homeowner B.J. May stepped out of his Georgia home wearing a blue Batman shirt, he was surprised when his Nest doorbell wouldn't let him back in.

laughingsquid.com

 

[3MTA3]

Homeowner Gets Locked Out When the Nest Doorbell Mistakenly Identifies Him as the Batman on His T-Shirt

When homeowner B.J. May stepped out of his Georgia home wearing a blue Batman shirt, he was surprised when his Nest doorbell wouldn't let him back in.

laughingsquid.com

Unless you are already invested in Ring or Next I strongly recommend Amcrest. Their video doorbell is cheaper (slightly over a hunski), better, and more secure.

Nest/Amazon and Ring have both been busted by having techs listen in and see video even when a camera or mike is supposed to be off. Amcrest can be configured to keep all traffic on your home network if you integrate into other home security systems using ONVIF/RTSP. Also no monthly charge if you use Amcrest connectivity to them (and your smart phone) unless you need storage.

 

[sobo]

Nest/Amazon and Ring have both been busted by having techs listen in and see video even when a camera or mike is supposed to be off.

This is precisely why I hate all of this "connectivity for convenience" and "smart home" bullsh!t. Leave me the phuq alone in my own home, FFS!!!

 

[HA556]

Kicking down a door and butt near you!

 

[Rickenbacher39]

We were looking for a refrigerator a while back.
They are now selling refrigerators that connect to the internet.
What the heck is wrong with people?
You don't have to answer. It was a rhetorical question.
Besides the resulting list would be so large it would probably crash the site.

 

[HA556]

Can you dial up and put your cranky woman on ice?!

 

[RicInOR]

AI

A college student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of Hacker News

He says he wanted to prove the AI could pass as a human writer

www.theverge.com

"Porr was trying to demonstrate that the content produced by GPT-3 could fool people into believing it was written by a human. And, he told MIT Technology Review, "it was super easy, actually, which was the scary part."

"So to set the stage in case you're not familiar with GPT-3: It's the latest version of a series of AI autocomplete tools designed by San Francisco-based OpenAI, and has been in development for several years. At its most basic, GPT-3 (which stands for "generative pre-trained transformer") auto-completes your text based on prompts from a human writer."




"Here's a sample from Porr's blog post (with a pseudonymous author), titled "Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking."

"Definition #2: Over-Thinking (OT) is the act of trying to come up with ideas that have already been thought through by someone else. OT usually results in ideas that are impractical, impossible, or even stupid."

Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking.

In order to get something done, maybe we need to think less. Seems counter-intuitive, but I believe sometimes our thoughts can get in the way of the creative process. We can work better at times when we "tune out" the external world and focus on what's in front of us.

adolos.substack.com

 

[RicInOR]

Issue 89: The Dark Side - Nautilus

Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit

The language algorithm GPT-3 continues our descent into a post-truth world.

bit.ly

In May this year the company OpenAI, co-founded by Elon Musk in 2015, introduced a new language model called GPT-3 (for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3"). It took the tech world by storm. On the surface, GPT-3 is like a supercharged version of the autocomplete feature on your smartphone; it can generate coherent text based on an initial input. But GPT-3's text-generating abilities go far beyond anything your phone is capable of. It can disambiguate pronouns, translate, infer, analogize, and even perform some forms of common-sense reasoning and arithmetic. It can generate fake news articles that humans can barely detect above chance. Given a definition, it can use a made-up word in a sentence. It can rewrite a paragraph in the style of a famous author. Yes, it can write creative fiction. Or generate code for a program based on a description of its function. It can even answer queries about general knowledge. The list goes on.

 

[RicInOR]

The Chinese government has an AI surveillance system that uses 20m+ cameras and facial recognition systems to track citizen behavior and monitor criminals. They officially named it 'Skynet', because of Terminator

 

[sobo]

They officially named it 'Skynet', because of Terminator

 

[clearconscience]

I was listening to an interview the other day about robots. They started talking about the sex robots and how bad this is.
They were talking about what happens when robots can get emotions, and act more human, the creepy jackwagons will get them for weird sexual fetishes and violence.
but that behavior will always lead to more depravity and violence towards people as these people will inevitably morph into more sadistic humans.
Just like the social media making people less social and causing more mental illness.

Then they went on to pedophiles and how they will get child dolls and I got sick and had to stop listening.

Needless to say, people are jacked up

 

[RicInOR]

They were talking about what happens when robots can get emotions, and act more human, the creepy jackwagons will get them for weird sexual fetishes and violence.

I might get a sex robot, but it would still have a headache.

 

[jbett98]

I might get a sex robot, but it would still have a headache.

My luck, it would turn out to be programmed like my ex wife.

 

[RicInOR]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI

smbc-comics.com

SMBC, another comic strip where you need to follow the link to get a mouse over punch line. Not this particular one, tho.