Interestingly, the NeuroMechFly project [1] already exists, so integrating the two together may already be under way. At 50 million synapses, a modest gaming PC should be able to run the simulation. I wonder what people will think once they are able to do this at home?
>I hate everything about this on so many different levels.
>That people are so lonely that they invest emotionally in an AI is flooring.
The vehemence for the individuals in your statement is telling. What should lonely people do if they have physical or emotional problems problems that prevent them from easily going out and interacting with others? What happens to such people who are to poor to afford the ~$170 per hour fee for professional psychologists? It seems to me that your statement is that these people should just not exist. The sad thing to me is that I've seen a lot of people with this same viewpoint of disregard.
I just wish people would treat each other with more kindness and understanding.
I think you may be overestimating the complexity. The better idea is to set up and experiment with different simulation parameters, and see how far they diverge from actual observed behavior.
I can attest to 40 year old floppies stored in a barn as a viable storage mechanism. I was able to retrieve almost all of the code that I wrote in my childhood this way. I had no idea that those old Apple 2 and Commodore 64 disks would actually still work!
Does anyone out there have a link to the section of British intellectual property law that Tom refers to as "Passing On"? I can't find anything clear with a google search.
As well, it may be possible to crowdsource a new reasonable quality dataset by just using photos taken by volunteers, along with some custom paid work by professional body models or actors. Redone quality photos of public artwork and architecture would probably be a great help too.
So, if I get this right, the main issue that the artists have is that these AI's are trained on art that they haven't opted in to the dataset? What about having a dataset that was verified selected from public domain or creative commons photos and artwork? Would that be acceptable?
I'm impressed. this is the first critique I've seen that actually engages with the topic in a fair way. As of now, there's been just way too much noise to get to the detail of what exactly is wrong with AI art.
As for me, I just feel that it should be looked at the same way that photography is looked at; that it's a new medium all to itself. You wouldn't enter a photograph in an oil painting competition, so you shouldn't enter AI art into a drawing/sketch art competition either. It would also be useful if there was an acknowledgement that AI was used in some elements of the art, but like as not there will always need to be a human agent that makes corrections in what is created.
What type of component is an "adjustable resistor"? Looking the term up online only shows potentiometers, which I really don't think is what is being described here. Is this some sort of memristor?
That is really impressive! Are the Proxmox tape utilities separate from Proxmox itself? I have a Synology NAS that I'd like to back up to tape. I actually have a tape library, but I haven't seen anything that looks like a simple solution for this until now.
At that point, why not put up an option for paid tech support? It would make life costly for the spammers, and give an option for people with a critical and legitimate problem.
It's sad to see this in popular culture, but reationality does not mean total suppression of emotion. To be more accurate, modern concepts of rationality means that you are aware of your emotions, and that you can effectively process them in the correct context. So, crying in a support group is a completely rational thing to do, crying in a finance meeting, or during open heart surgery, much less so. It also means that you acknowledge and take responsibility for the care and upkeep of your emotions, and don't pawn these duties off on those who have not consented to it. Spock, while a fascinating character for a space opera, is not a good example of either rationality or emotional maturity. (At least not in the human sense.)
I do not think that they are. However, whenever this topic comes up, there are people who immediately jump out and state that is basically is, simply because we don't know enough about the underlying science yet. Which is strange, as studying the underlying science to understand the situation is exactly what we should be doing... It's just so backwards, and it confuses me.
So, I keep reading responses such as this on the subject of neuron/brain emulation, and I have a question to ask back. Is it possible to understand a neuron at all? It appears that we have some understanding, given that we can decode some of the electrical and chemical signals coming from them and to them, but it seems that the zeitgeist is that these things are inherently impossible to understand. If so, as a layperson why waste the resources trying to advance this branch of science? (Note I personally fully support advancing this branch of science.) Why not spend the effort on something with positive tangible results, like space travel or clean power?