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From an article about Machine Learning*...
[-- Image recognition has gone from spotting when there’s a face in a photograph to coping with everything from text to traffic signals. The ImageNet benchmark tests identifying photos of a thousand objects, like recognizing not only pictures of 150 different dogs but also their breeds. ”You have to distinguish Pembroke Welsh corgis and Cardigan Welsh corgis, one of which has a longer tail,” explains John Platt of MSR. --]
First of all, imagine the people writing these algorithms:
"Let's see, if the tail is long and the dog is approx. this tall, then it must be a Cardigan Welsh corgi."
The Reason for Fear
When the computers decide that the picture you are looking at is a Pembroke because it's tail is shorter, then you don't question it. The computer knows after all. But, what if the corgi's tail was bobbed and it is actually the other type? Well, you just don't question that in the future, because people don't think.
The Phones are the Smart Ones
iPhones are smart and people are dumb (in the future and now).
Now, how about when it is something much more important, like detecting cancer or the face of a criminal.
"Well, we have to put this guy in prison, because the computer told us too."
That's what Gates and Musk fear and they are probably smart.
Gates & Musk know that people don't often think. Instead they just react to their AI. 
Smart Phone Minions
Look at how people have become minions to their Smart Phones.
"My phone says the answer is..."
*http://www.cio.com/article/2886254/enterprise-software/how-machine-learning-ate-microsoft.html[^]
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And the problem is that people want to see 'intelligence' where it doesn't exist. It is NOT original thought, it is a formulaic response. I remember being at odds with a visiting lecturer while in college to this same affect.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: see 'intelligence' where it doesn't exist. It is NOT original thought, it is a formulaic response
A very good point.
I agree. True intelligence is human. Any algorithm which seems to exhibit intelligence is in fact following some prescripted code, whereas we don't know the source code for humans.
Humans are infinitely creative -- and by that I mean often stupid. But, stupidity can be a form of intelligence. A computer programmed to be intelligent is limited to never having the ability to be stupid and thus humans can create art and beauty and stupidity where a computer never can.
I know my comments are going to bring a lot of response. Humans are better than computers and always will be. Except they are so infinitely stupid. 
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I was looking for an excuse to link a short story[^] Howard Taylor (of web comic Schlock Mercenary[^] posted yesterday. You've provided the perfect hook. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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newton.saber wrote: First of all, imagine the people writing these algorithms:
Um, you don't write any algorithms.
You can just use a standard genetic algorithm or backprop routine, and feed it the names and types of dog that exist, and loads of pictures with dogs in them.
Then you hire a couple of students to click "Y" if the routine guesses the right dog, and "N" if it doesn't.
It shouldn't take long before it can pick out any dog in almost any background.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Um, you don't write any algorithms.
You've fallen into my hands!! You are pwnd!
You see, you've proven my point: NO THINKING IS REQUIRED!!! 
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newton.saber wrote: NO THINKING IS REQUIRED!!!
Of course not!
If you need thinking, the last thing you want to do is hire students!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What do Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Insemination have in common?
While both are significant advances in technology,
neither is as good as the real thing.
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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That's funny.  Never heard that joke before.
Upvote!
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Here's a very interesting dual-boot product for pads and the like:
http://www.amiduos.com/[^]
This is by the AMI BIOS (American Megatrends) people.
That would be kind of cool to have a device you can dualboot to either OS. only $9.99
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Hunh?
That's like saying "You've got Windows 7, now install Windows 8, instead!"
What?
Oh, you mean...?
Nah!
I don't believe you!
No-one in the world is daft enough to overwrite Win 7 with Win 8!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It would be very interesting if it worked on a windows phone...
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It'd be a lot funnier if you could load Android on an iPhone.
Somebody else's, by preference...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think you might have put yourself on a hit list for making such a comment
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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My wife would figuratively kill me.
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I was thinking Sonny and Cher, George and Gracy,...
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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you poor old thing, maybe you should lie down
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Yeah, say something newer, fresher and more hip, like Kenny & Dolly (Rogers and Parton).
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Interesting. I wonder if you could hook up another computer, running, say, Eclipse or IntelliJ, and actually use the Android/Windows doohickey as the device you're testing your software on.
Marc
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Wondered that myself. One of the comments says that it runs better than Genymotion. Isn't Genymotion suppose to be for developers?
Doesn't mean it will, just asking the question. 
Further research found this page: enabling adb connection[^]
My best guess is yes.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Ron Nicholson wrote: Further research found this page:
Wow. That might be really really cool. Thanks for the additional research!
Marc
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Their main page says "Run Android Apps in Windows"
That doesn't sound like dual-booting to me. Not sure how it's different from, say, BlueStacks.
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Just seen a question where the OP has a Windows application with "dataGridView18" and "textBox63" - I can only imagine what the form looks like... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nowadays we don't have to care about all that low level stuff anymore. Everything has been dumbed down sufficiently that we can build any monstrosity without having to worry about anything.
So, will you now be so kind and also drink the Coolaid?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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