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2019-07-23 Science & Technology

Microsoft to invest $1 BILLION in AI startup co-founded by Elon Musk that aims to make computers smarter than humans

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Artificial stupidity.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-23 00:45|| 2019-07-23 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 aims to make computers smarter than humans

I'm afraid for most folks they already are.

Posted by gorb 2019-07-23 04:28|| 2019-07-23 04:28|| Front Page Top

#3 They think liberals are human?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-07-23 07:00|| 2019-07-23 07:00|| Front Page Top

#4 I expect the Donks to shut that program down, it would endanger their voting base.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-23 07:36|| 2019-07-23 07:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The Donks think that this is their future voting base.

Let's look at the semantics, who gets to define SMART?

Posted by AlanC 2019-07-23 07:57|| 2019-07-23 07:57|| Front Page Top

#6 The only valid argument I ever heard in defense of Microsoft Windows is that it's "good enough". So now that I hear that the inventor of "good enough" is going to make AI smarter than humans, it kinda makes me chuckle.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-07-23 10:26|| 2019-07-23 10:26|| Front Page Top

#7 With M$S involved expect all their code to be hacked from day one and have back doors everywhere.

Posted by 3dc 2019-07-23 10:48|| 2019-07-23 10:48|| Front Page Top

#8 If MSFT is involved they ain't gonna become intelligent.

Posted by Hellfish 2019-07-23 12:23|| 2019-07-23 12:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Seriously what could go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...Hal?

Posted by Mercutio 2019-07-23 13:09|| 2019-07-23 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, it was HAL, and Arthur C. Clarke swore up and down and left and right it was a complete coincidence that HAL was IBM offset by one letter. HAL was a lesson in the nature of GIGO. All the social justice crap that will be coded into any AI project funded by the leftist blob will be, to paraphrase Heinlein, "indistinguishable from a psychotic newt on crack..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-23 13:24|| 2019-07-23 13:24|| Front Page Top

#11 The creepiest part of the HAL character was reactivation in 2010. HAL was completely ignorant of the crimes he committed and was again so flawlessly logical that "he" agreed to facilitate his own destruction. Clarke was way ahead of everyone in understanding the flawed coin AI would have to be.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-23 13:31|| 2019-07-23 13:31|| Front Page Top

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