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Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Arglebargle III posted:

when will a robot be able to get a mortgage and a credit card? That is the day the police robots will begin rounding us up

when there are no more jobs nobody will be able to state their income on a credit card application

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Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Hey nerds, here is a proclick, it has lots of charts


https://medium.com/basic-income/the-real-story-of-automation-beginning-with-one-simple-chart-8b95f9bad71b

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Check out some nVidia research's newest work on AI generation of images:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/30/neural-network-nvidia-images-celebs/

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

mcstanb posted:

That is basically the plot of a Black Mirror episode.

It was also the plot of a Max Headroom episode, although in that episode the company was scamming people by claiming it had actually uploaded their loved ones

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001


The sequence starting at 4:10 is truly something

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

There is really literally hundreds of these

Stephen Hawking says A.I. could be 'worst event in the history of our civilization'
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/stephen-hawking-ai-could-be-worst-event-in-civilization.html

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Amazon demonstrates automation of character voice acting in their Lumberyard game engine (based on Crytek):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjnx_wmlaA

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:

This seems like the dumbest thing.

500 miles? That's a big nothing. How long to charge the batteries? How long before you can take the truck out again? Why would companies buy a truck with a massive downtime and a short range?

The torque of the electric engine would be real nice though, that I admit.

ElCondemn posted:

Presumably it’ll be self driving and have drop in batteries, so any efficiency lost should be mitigated by routes and increased road time. I’m really excited to just have totally self driving semis on the road at all, though the article doesn’t make that claim.

You guys are thinking about long-haul trucking. This is for travel between distribution centers and destination points. The first business to put down reservations is Meijer stores.

There is no battery swapping, it charges like any other Tesla. Their plan is to set up chargers and sell electricity for 7 cents / KW*h. The chargers will be located at the loading/unloading docks, so you charge while you are transferring the cargo. One charge cycle takes 30 minutes.

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

SimonCat posted:

Are there laws against a car company also owning the fuel source?

I don't believe anybody has ever raised a stink about the Tesla Superchargers. For the Tesla Semi they are introducing Megachargers.


Here's the full presentation edited down to less than 10 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n9xafjynJA

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Tesla has two more buyers for the Tesla Semi: J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and Wal-Mart.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/17/wal-mart-says-its-planning-to-test-teslas-new-electric-trucks.html

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Interesting piece on viewing the Tesla Semi announcement by someone with some trucking experience:

https://www.autoblog.com/2017/11/19/tesla-semi-trucker-questions/

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

ElCondemn posted:

I think this person doesn’t trust or understand cameras and sensors.

The parts about logistics and usage make sense though.

The Chevy Bolt has an interesting system where it combines all the camera data into a single overhead surround view as though you had a drone floating above your car.

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

It went without saying the few poor people who survive will be privileged to work as servants

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/16737224/global-ai-talent-shortfall-tencent-report

quote:

According to the study, compiled by the Tencent Research Institute, there are just 300,000 “AI researchers and practitioners” worldwide, but the “market demand” is for millions of roles.

These are unavoidably speculative figures, and the study does not offer much detail on how they were reached, but as a general trend they fit with other, more anecdotal reports. Around the world, tech giants regularly complain about the difficulty hiring AI engineers, and the demand has pushed salaries to absurd heights. Individuals with just a few year’s experience can expect base pay of between $300,000 and $500,000 a year, says The New York Times, while the very best will collect millions. One independent AI lab told the publication that there were only 10,000 individuals worldwide with the right skills to spearhead serious new AI projects.

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

LLSix posted:

I genuinely doubt there are 10,000 new AI projects. For everything else, a subset of the skills required to actually spearhead a new project are more desirable than a bunch of aggressive management prima donnas.

Just another case of industry wildly inflating the number of positions they would actually like to fill.

They don't mean "AI projects", they mean projects to solve some business problem / automate some process with AI. And there are orders of magnitude more of those than 10,000.

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Aurora-Makes-Any-Helicopter-Autonomous-230012-1.html

quote:

A system developed by Aurora Flight Sciences can be installed on any rotary-wing aircraft and enable it to fly autonomously, the company said in a news release on Wednesday. The Office of Naval Research will conduct a final demonstration of the system next week, December 13, at the Marine Corps’ urban training center in Quantico, Virginia. The system can be operated by any Marine in the field, “intuitively and quickly, from a hand-held tablet, without prior training required,” Aurora said, making it easy to request supplies even in austere or dangerous environments. A UH-1 “Huey” helicopter will be flown in the demo.

“AACUS [Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System] gives revolutionary capability to our fleet and force,” said Dennis Baker, AACUS program officer. “It can be used as a pilot aid in degraded visual environments, or allow fully autonomous flights in contested environments, keeping our pilots out of harm’s way.”

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:

It's not about the number, it's about the type of jobs/form of labor.

You do agree that automation is a finite process, right? At some point you will be able to automate every form of human labor. There will be no possible new jobs for humans in a free market economy at that point. How do you disagree with that?


In chess, where that colloquialism comes from, you know very well when you have entered the endgame. I'm not sure what your point is. All attempts of making predictions about the future are useless?

You don't think a world where human and digital intelligences labor as partners will have new jobs?

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001


Sorry for self-driving car related chat but FYI Anheuser-Busch announced they had placed an order for 40 of these, and PepsiCo announced they had ordered 100, and then today UPS topped that again with an order of 125 Tesla Semi trucks.

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

If I know anything about AI singularities the actual outcome will be an exponentially increasing amount of global industrial output being directed into converting all of Earth's oceans into Bud Lite Lime-a-rita

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

AI can produce anything, even Something Awful forums posts

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Yeah it's actually surprising how much is free and open, at least as of right now.

Like, did you think the nVidia research GANs for generating celebrity faces was impressive? The whole data set is dumped on GitHub.
https://github.com/tkarras/progressive_growing_of_gans

Oh you want step by step instructions on creating a GAN?
https://github.com/gheinrich/DIGITS-GAN/blob/DIGITS-GAN-v0.1/examples/gan/README.md


This blog post just went up on creating multi-layered neural nets:
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/uncovering-hidden-patterns-through-machine-learning

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Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Tei posted:

Amazon plans for total world domination and nothing less.

The capitalist version of total world domination: Amazon’s goal is to take a cut of all economic activity.

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