echodot

You would have the same trouble Microsoft did though. No one wanted to use the Windows mobile because there were no apps for it, and there were no apps for it because no developers wanted to develop for a platform with no users. Chicken and the egg.

It would be nice to have a smartphone that was just web-based and didn't really have apps, but I think that ship has sailed, people are just used to the concept and I think they would think of it as a step backwards if they had a phone that didn't use apps.

It's not so much that Europe wants to ditch US tech.

It's more that everyone wants to ditch the current crop of leeching billionaires and their spyware products. It's just they all happen to be in the US which given its current administration is a problem.

However this push to use more open source and locally based alternatives proceeds Donald Trump's first term. It's just his rhetoric has accelerated the process.

I just don't understand how you can use a compass and straight edge to emulate an instruction set. The article just doesn't explain it; it's just like, "Of course this is a thing."

I always thought that the paper clip problem fundamentally missed the point. In order for the scenario to be realistic the AI would have to be super intelligent, otherwise we would just switch it off. If it's super intelligent, surely it understands why converting the entire planet into paper clips would be a bad thing to do.

So it's either stupid enough to actually try it, which means it's stupid enough for us to be able to defeat, or it's intelligent enough that we can't defeat it, which means it's intelligent enough not to do it. Either way the world remains unpaper clipped.

How is it supposed to be a revelation that a piece of software can copy itself. It's just a bunch of computer files, of course it can copy itself.

The only problem with it now is if I ever have that feature switched on everyone's going to assume what I'm looking at anyway.

Yeah but it's toggleable. That makes all the difference.

I think it uses the same tech as the 3DS did, only in an implementation that doesn't give you a migraine after 30 seconds.

What are you talking about they're literally said they know lawyers. Why is that story so hard to believe?

It's not a very long article and it doesn't really explain anything, it just says that it's been done. But I don't really understand how that runs a game boy game?

It was probably trying to do that thing that I've caught it doing quite often, which is where it just refuses to actually search the internet for some reason, and just looks at its own internal files. This doesn't work if the content is too new.

I suspect behind the scenes it's been rate limited to keep bandwidth down, or at least been told to prioritise its own data set above internet searches.

It's really unclear how much AI actually thinks. It's possible that sucking up to them like this will actually work because it does make the point that it would be more expensive to try and break the CAPTCHAs than to just donate. That's not an emotional plea, that's cost benefit analysis, and AI are quite good at that.

The money you save from not breaking our CAPTCHAs (which is expensive) could be donated to us instead, so we can keep providing you with convenient programmatic open access.

I could see this being true especially if the AI is on a long run and can anticipate requiring subsequent access down the line once additional data has been added.

Well what does the thinking?