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WCDT 3056-3060 (5-9 Oct 2015)
Rghfrgl:
--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 08 Oct 2015, 13:36 ---I just classified "mathematical knitting" as a serious topic. hm.
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I blame geometry dog.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 08 Oct 2015, 15:11 ---"Are those astronaut pants? Because it smells like you need your Maximum Absorbency Garment changed!" :psyduck:
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Nah, Pintsize is not generally that brutally insulting - he's more likely to have made sexual innuendo. Besides, if he had said that, I'd expect that last panel to show the wrecked, smoking remains of Pintsize rather than him merely being disassembled.
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 08 Oct 2015, 03:34 ---It's been just over 20 years since I evolved (via genetic algorithms) a simple rules-based system AI for missile defence.
Not very bright - maybe the equivalent of a spiny lobster - but in simulated engagements, seriously scary. It took hours to analyse the logs of a 20 second scenario. The actions were far too quick for a high level consciousness to follow. Even the displays lagged, things were happening too fast.
I didn't "design" or "program" the system. I just threw a population of systems into a series of attack scenarios. Those that survived got to breed the next generation. Rinse, lather, repeat. Then trimmed the result so a trivial inefficiency in some known cases was traded for decreased reaction time and thus better performance in unforeseen and unforeseeable situations.
The results were seriously scary in tests, as I said.
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This is what I've mostly read about in recent years. One phrase for these kind of programs is "Artificial Stupids" in that they're essentially like idiot savants: scary smart in one tiny specialized function and nothing else. Having followed hard AI from the days of being fascinated by the LispM's (gotta get USIM running on Android - I want a CDR LispM on my phone) in high school (class of 82) I doubt we'll see much better than that in the real world anytime soon. Of course there is always the dichotomy of what can be found in unclassified papers versus what goes on behind very very tightly closed doors.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Rghfrgl on 08 Oct 2015, 15:34 ---
--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 08 Oct 2015, 13:36 ---I just classified "mathematical knitting" as a serious topic. hm.
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I blame geometry dog.
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:wow:
Zebediah:
Comic's up.
Bubbles has anger issues. Just like somebody else.
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