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After a while, I'm ready to go back to the keyboard.
It is like when you have been staring at a computer screen for long hours at a stretch trying to solve a problem. You stand up and move away from your desk and within a few moments all the answers and solutions storm through.
Your career and personal life are no different. Perhaps you are trying to hard to find the answers - so stand up and walk away for a little while.
Work on your life, and then work on your work. That will make you strong enough to see past the hype cycle.
I've been doing this for 30 years and I'm more jazzed than ever. Wanna know the biggest difference between you and me? I'm pulled. You're pushed. Let me explain... I love building stuff. Nothing gives me a bigger rush than getting something working the first time (well almost nothing). But I couldn't care less about the technology. If an abacus, two tin cans on a string, or some BASIC code on a Kaypro II did the job,…
I've been doing this for 30 years and I'm more jazzed than ever. Wanna know the biggest difference between you and me? I'm pulled. You're pushed. Let me explain... I love building stuff. Nothing gives me a bigger rush than getting something working the first time (well almost nothing). But I couldn't care less about the technology. If an abacus, two tin cans on a string, or some BASIC code on a Kaypro II did the job,…
[edw519] What I really care about is how my software is used. And who uses it [heliodorj] The main motivator and source of satisfaction for software developers is the human aspect, not the technology itself. Is your product making a difference in someone's life? I think these two statements show a profound misunderstanding of what motivates a lot (if not most) hackers. What gets a lot of people into this field in the…
Oh and the next big thing : Skynet
I'm younger than you by a little (or about the same) I think, and I'm not overly impressed with "social media" either. It feels like we've just been renaming the basic things computers can do with fad names since the turn of the century. It feels like the endless potential has been wasted. All of the amazing things we could have done with computers and we used them for like-buttons and lolcats. Wow great, another app…
I'm only half joking when I tell people that computers were invented so that my wife and her family and I can sit around drinking margaritas and watching Jan Terri videos on YouTube...
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[edw519] What I really care about is how my software is used. And who uses it [heliodorj] The main motivator and source of satisfaction for software developers is the human aspect, not the technology itself. Is your product making a difference in someone's life? I think these two statements show a profound misunderstanding of what motivates a lot (if not most) hackers. What gets a lot of people into this field in the…
Spot on. Couldn't have put it better myself. Oh and the next big thing : Skynet
I've been doing this for 30 years and I'm more jazzed than ever. Wanna know the biggest difference between you and me? I'm pulled. You're pushed. Let me explain... I love building stuff. Nothing gives me a bigger rush than getting something working the first time (well almost nothing). But I couldn't care less about the technology. If an abacus, two tin cans on a string, or some BASIC code on a Kaypro II did the job,…
[edw519] What I really care about is how my software is used. And who uses it [heliodorj] The main motivator and source of satisfaction for software developers is the human aspect, not the technology itself. Is your product making a difference in someone's life? I think these two statements show a profound misunderstanding of what motivates a lot (if not most) hackers. What gets a lot of people into this field in the…
Take a moment, and disregard your technological know-how (the fact that you think you know how it works), and consider Google strictly as a black-box.
Which functionalities of a strong AI have they not delivered (or are not well within the way to be delivering) so far?
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[edw519] What I really care about is how my software is used. And who uses it [heliodorj] The main motivator and source of satisfaction for software developers is the human aspect, not the technology itself. Is your product making a difference in someone's life? I think these two statements show a profound misunderstanding of what motivates a lot (if not most) hackers. What gets a lot of people into this field in the…
Innocent-looking question from an ex-AI researcher: Take a moment, and disregard your technological know-how (the fact that you think you know how it works), and consider Google strictly as a black-box. Which functionalities of a strong AI have they not delivered (or are not well within the way to be delivering) so far?
Strong AI is artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence — the intelligence of a machine that can successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can
then there are lots of things that Google can't do that many human beings can. For example, when you do an image search, the results are sometimes laughable, and that's because Google doesn't understand image content and just reports results based on the tags on the image or based on surrounding text. Lots of human beings would have understood the search query well enough to not return the results Google returned in many cases. So, Strong AI it ain't