I pay about £12 per month.How expensive is your tap water?
I pay about £12 per month.How expensive is your tap water?
The computer has got to be the most misunderstood invention ever. It is so misunderstood that some people are going around suggesting that our existence is a computer simulation. Movies are made about them. AI is regularly discussed as something uncontrolled having a life of its own. All complete rubbish. In reality, computers are very simple devices in function and those who understand how they work are not impressed with what they are capable of. Computers use transistors to indicate on and off positioning as a storage for the "digital" representation (based on agreed upon coding and protocols) of analog sound or visual end products. They are primitive task masters. Powerful yes, but not magical in any sense. They cannot do anything which cannot be done with simple pen and paper, they just do it incredibly fast. And there is no such thing as AI, there are only computer programs which determine what a machine does. The computer is nothing more than a gopher. If you can simulate life using a computer, you can also simulate a life using pen and paper. You could simulate a life using beans and peas (beans for 1s, peas for 0s) too if you had 11 billion of them and loads of time (energy bars would be helpful too). Actually you could do it with only 1 bean and 1 pea if you really have the time. So there it is, life is a pea and a bean.
It really SHOULD be free of charge actually. It is too critical now for anyone to go without based on income. Heck, you can't even get certain things done now without it and it is getting more critical each day.
Well, internet got much cheaper during last 10-20 years. Not much else though. Hard to think of something that got cheaper and does not belong to the newtech/IT category.The reality is that we have in germany some kinde of information oligarschie. Nothing gets cheaper.
Well, internet got much cheaper during last 10-20 years. Not much else though. Hard to think of something that got cheaper and does not belong to the newtech/IT category.
You misunderstand AI
We live in a probabilistic, non-deterministic universe. That means the notion of freewill is not necessarily against the laws of physics.Free will? You think we have?
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Personally, I feel that I do have freewill, and this feeling is so compelling, the examples are so convincing, I must believe it is true, until and unless I encounter incontrovertible evidence otherwise.
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It does nothing for anyone to exclaim "You misunderstand AI", without saying why or how, but I'm going to suppose you already knew that (or maybe I'm giving you too much credit). In any event, I find your posts in general underwhelming so don't confuse this as a request for information.
That has a thread of truth but it misses an important point. AI (or more specifically, Machine Learning) refers to algorithms that have a few interesting properties:... [computers] cannot do anything which cannot be done with simple pen and paper, they just do it incredibly fast. And there is no such thing as AI, there are only computer programs which determine what a machine does. ...
Of course the computer mentioned here is not the same as the computer as we know it. The computer we know now is binary in nature but we are already talking about quantum computer that is more powerful and this is at our "level". We may not know what kind of computer that governs this reality that we are living in. Of course this is just all conjecture but just want to point out that the "computer" that was mentioned is not the kind of computer that we are working with now, that's for sure.The computer has got to be the most misunderstood invention ever. It is so misunderstood that some people are going around suggesting that our existence is a computer simulation. Movies are made about them. AI is regularly discussed as something uncontrolled having a life of its own. All complete rubbish. In reality, computers are very simple devices in function and those who understand how they work are not impressed with what they are capable of. Computers use transistors to indicate on and off positioning as a storage for the "digital" representation (based on agreed upon coding and protocols) of analog sound or visual end products. They are primitive task masters. Powerful yes, but not magical in any sense. They cannot do anything which cannot be done with simple pen and paper, they just do it incredibly fast. And there is no such thing as AI, there are only computer programs which determine what a machine does. The computer is nothing more than a gopher. If you can simulate life using a computer, you can also simulate a life using pen and paper. You could simulate a life using beans and peas (beans for 1s, peas for 0s) too if you had 11 billion of them and loads of time (energy bars would be helpful too). Actually you could do it with only 1 bean and 1 pea if you really have the time. So there it is, life is a pea and a bean.
As far as we know, Quantum computers can't solve NP-hard problems (like the traveling salesman) in polynomial time, or any faster than classical computers. There is another complexity class (suspected to be) between P and NP, called BQP, for "Bounded Error Quantum Polynomial Time". Quantum computers can solve problems in BQP faster than classical computers. But the pragmatic value of this is not fully known, and debatable. There is only 1 practical problem I know of in BQP, deriving the prime factors of large integers (Shor's algorithm). So (we suspect) that's 1 thing that a quantum computer can do faster than a classical computer. Even there, pragmatically speaking, classical computers are still faster because nobody's yet devised a quantum computer big enough to leverage this theoretical advantage on big enough numbers to make a difference.... The computer we know now is binary in nature but we are already talking about quantum computer that is more powerful and this is at our "level". ... just want to point out that the "computer" that was mentioned is not the kind of computer that we are working with now, that's for sure.
Of course the computer mentioned here is not the same as the computer as we know it. The computer we know now is binary in nature but we are already talking about quantum computer that is more powerful and this is at our "level". We may not know what kind of computer that governs this reality that we are living in. Of course this is just all conjecture but just want to point out that the "computer" that was mentioned is not the kind of computer that we are working with now, that's for sure.
We live in a probabilistic, non-deterministic universe. That means the notion of freewill is not necessarily against the laws of physics.
That doesn't mean we have freewill. Given the current state of human knowledge, the definition of freewill and whether we have it is an open question.
Personally, I feel that I do have freewill, and this feeling is so compelling, the examples are so convincing, I must believe it is true, until and unless I encounter incontrovertible evidence otherwise.
And I feel this belief is consistent with the scientific method, which is to take our observations as primary evidence and build theories consistent with them.
1. They discover patterns in data, without being "told" what the patterns are. The programmers who wrote the algorithms have no idea what patterns it will find, and the same code finds different patterns when pointed at different data.
2. The algorithms use these patterns to make decisions (typically classifiers or regressors). Their decisions, being based on the patterns, which are based on the data, are inherently unpredictable even to the programmers who wrote the algorithms.
3. Given more data, they make better decisions. This happens "auto-magically" without the programmers intervening, as the algorithms incorporate error correction feedback.
The above 3 characteristics sound similar to the process that we humans call "learning"..
but just want to point out that the "computer" that was mentioned is not the kind of computer that we are working with now, that's for sure.
I'd like to say that we can make plans and act upon those plans. That is free will. For example I plan to buy a dac/amp. After that I browse around ASR and found what I like. I make a trip to the local audio store and bought said dac/amp. I was responsible for that purchase and I made a choice or at the very least I believed I made a choice.There we end. Whats the definition of free will?