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Techie jargon is generally meant to enhance communication, while biz jargon is meant to baffle the listener with bullshit. Huge difference.
Want to come build a distributed social cloud web app with me using node? The real problem is when the meaning of a word or phrase becomes so broad that it conveys no information, or gets swamped by overuse and becomes a buzzword.
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Want to come build a distributed social cloud web app with me using node? The real problem is when the meaning of a word or phrase becomes so broad that it conveys no information, or gets swamped by overuse and becomes a buzzword.
I personally think that sentence is just as bad as the business jargon sentence.
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In 2029, when we are still not able to 'upload our brains' into a computer, I will come back here specifically to call bullshit.
Depends how you define upload. Why couldn't a computer just simulate a persons outputs based on recordings of their life. Does virtualization of life really need to have consistent consciousness? Maybe rip would be a better word than upload.
To Be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc
See also the Grandfather's Axe paradox, aka Ship of Theseus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
A longer piece, Mechanisms of Mind Transfer: http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/extraordinary_future/Ph...
What an interesting reflection on who we are as a species. We build systems to organize who we are (urbandictionary) but hate it when the systems use that information tell us who we are (watson). It feels so much like the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. Perhaps an appropriate response would be for the computer to measure the tension in the human voice response to it's queries and optimize for lower tension. So it…
I have to disagree. I'm not an "angel" by any means, but any time I visit Urban Dictionary, I come away feeling filthy. I typically go there to look up some abbreviation I heard on reddit or IRC or a blog post somewhere and what I look up usually ends up being middling-dirty, but the stuff that I see there "on my way" to the word I'm looking for makes me cringe and gives me a bleak vision of what the next generation…
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Kurzeil attempts to privilege certain technological milestones as substantively "different" from other technological milestones (e.g. "true" AI)--and thus claim their consequences for human culture are uniquely unpredictable. My point is that this is just an assertion, not a prediction. Every future development to some extent obscures our ability to predict the future of human culture. Look far enough into the future…
We may not be able to predict future developments in musical composition, but we can predict that song writers will probably not convert the entire mass of the solar system into musical instruments over a two week period. The same cannot be said of self-improving AIs. Kurzweil's Singularity is not about the difficulty of long term predictions, it is that the progress function may become so steep that even short term…
Which I think is the point.
We have tried building educated gentlebots capable of playing chess and other noble pursuits. It didn't lead to GAI. Maybe an uneducated scumbot would be better? Swearing and cursing because its peers do. Full of prejudice and bigotry because of weak anecdotal evidence. Vengeful. Impulsive. Using questionable grammar . Easily addicted. Cognitively biased. Wishfully thinking. Superstitious. Believing in fallacious log…
' "In tests it even used the word bullshit in an answer to a researcher's query." ' I'm not sure which is worse: the singularity with a bullshit detector or without.
What an interesting reflection on who we are as a species. We build systems to organize who we are (urbandictionary) but hate it when the systems use that information tell us who we are (watson). It feels so much like the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. Perhaps an appropriate response would be for the computer to measure the tension in the human voice response to it's queries and optimize for lower tension. So it…
It's more like they couldn't have Watson using them on national television. Many a company, even if it weren't showcasing a machine like Watson, would want to avoid that language on a huge television event like the Jeopardy challenge. I think you might be looking a little too deeply at this.
Why couldn't they have Watson curse on national television? Cultural expectations. Why avoid any words at all? They're all just phonemes strung together with no inherent meaning.
Not looking deeply is not looking at all.
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oh yeah, I forgot it was that simple. Watson has several different teams of people to manage its different parts...
I didn't mean to imply it was simple, just that there's nothing magic about how Watson's knowledge is stored. Obviously at this scale any change is unlikely to be trivial. Given the wide range of unstructured sources Watson uses, and given that the linguistic rules they use to extract facts are likely to frequently change, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume they'll have a process to make building its knowledge…