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Re: Xi Jinping urges China to use artificial intelligence in race for tech future

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Post by threatofrain » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 6:31 PM UTC

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #29

orbifold wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Luckily drones still have significant limitations on achievable flight time. Some of which are dictated by the laws of physics. So for the foreseeable future there won’t be any bird sized drones chasing you down. Military drones on the other hand are much larger and expensive.

And one crash will have high repercussion, even in China.

Car crashes have important consequences anywhere in the world as well; I think people will simply accept the low incidence of drone-related accident as part of their environmental ambience.

Re: Xi Jinping urges China to use artificial intelligence in race for tech future

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 9:02 PM UTC

dTal wrote: post #36

gman83 wrote: post #3

Kind of unrelated, but I remember reading this interview with President Obama and being really impressed with how much he seemed to know about AI: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-mit-joi-ito-in...

Wow. Not just about AI - he's consistently insightful in that conversation, and demonstrates a systems-level mindset that one might even describe as hacker-esque... "Part of what makes us human are the kinks. They’re the mutations, the outliers, the flaws that create art or the new invention, right? We have to assume that if a system is perfect, then it’s static. And part of what makes us who we are, and part of what…

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Re: Xi Jinping urges China to use artificial intelligence in race for tech future

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Post by YetAnotherNick » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 9:25 PM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #61

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And one crash will have high repercussion, even in China.

Car crashes have important consequences anywhere in the world as well; I think people will simply accept the low incidence of drone-related accident as part of their environmental ambience.

They are completely different thing. I will be much more furious if some relative die due to drones than accident.

Re: Xi Jinping urges China to use artificial intelligence in race for tech future

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Post by pasabagi » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 11:46 PM UTC

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #63

threatofrain wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Car crashes have important consequences anywhere in the world as well; I think people will simply accept the low incidence of drone-related accident as part of their environmental ambience.

They are completely different thing. I will be much more furious if some relative die due to drones than accident.

Why?

I have had a friend die from a car accident. It doesn't exactly make you pro-driver (he was drunk).

If people can get used to cars, they can get used to anything. I mean, even as street furniture, they're hideously annoying. They monopolize roads, kill pedestrians, make noise, poison us, and do the same to our children, then you pay taxes to subsidize their manufacture. Drones sound far less obnoxious.