Who at Google decided it would be a good idea to teach three AI neural networks to develop their own encryption technology that we can't read?

Have they ever watched a single sci-fi film?

Google AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption/

Ray Bradbury was scared of typewriters. I'm not sure if scifi should be viewed as a documentary.

Dystopian novels are intended to be cautionary tales, not instruction manuals.

Idunno, given that AI didn't exist yet at the time of many of those stories' conception, I don't think that it's as relevant of a message. That's abusing the slippery slope fallacy.

I'm just saying that AI isn't inherently good or bad, and good stories need conflict so it's more likely that you'll only see the bad.

Where did you hear that?

"Scared" was hyperbolic. I saw a reading of his in high school and he said that it took him a while to move on from handwriting books and stories to typing them because it wasn't natural or something like that. He later conceded that it was just easier to use the typewriter and just started using that.

I don't think the guy understood exactly what technology was.

I think he was kind of a Luddite, I'm pretty sure he never had a driver's license. But the writing thing might just have been personal preference with how he was comfortable getting ideas out. There are a lot of writers who have very specific ways they write.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't at least be a little more cautious. CRISPR, cloning, AI, weaponry...

Yes, plenty of sci-fi stuff ends up coming true. H.G. Wells' First Men on the Moon, Captain Kirk's cordless telephone, and of course George Orwell accurately predicting a reality show called Big Brother. Uncanny!

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Remember the tablets in 2001?

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As well as Skype.

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And the skinny spoons apparently.

:laughing: I'd forgotten those - both a lot more convincingly high-tech than the Batcave computer, which came with an explanatory sign (to distinguish it from a WW2 radio transmitter I presume):-

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I guess there was no air bag. Makes sense. I don't remember seeing one. I just kind of assumed...

Good looking bloke

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Make America Great Britain Again.

I say we make Texas Mexico again.

Please. America doesn't need Texas. And as a plus, all the Texans automatically become Mexicans.

That solves like half our immigration problem.

And you thought self-hating Jews were bad.

Yeah. Fuck all those people who died in the alamo.

And they died because....

most of them were Mexican

Yeah, because America was stealing land from them.

No, that was just the Texans. They were the ones who went to live in Mexican-owned Texas to live and then rebelled against their presumably Evil Overlords. Actual America was not involved until later.

True dat!

At least now they don't have to pay alamo-ny.

^ :laughing: That's really clever, and makes a great slogan! If I were in the English football team, that's what I'd put on my shirt, FIFA or no FIFA.

^ I think the Mexicans would rather have Florida. They seem to treat Orlando, and specifically Disneyworld, as some kind of Mecca.

We've already tried selling Florida with no luck. We're stuck with it.

Gavin MacFadyen, 76, Mentor and Defender of WikiLeaks Founder, Dies
Can I just say CONSPIRACY!!! I've got my eye on you Hillary.

US actor Steven Seagal given Russian citizenship by Putin - BBC News

I wonder if they'll take any of our other idiots.

Austin is pretty great though. I guess everyone in Austin could move to Portland.

How did he not know that would cause a scene?

Rochdale name terminally ill youngster in their matchday squad - BBC Sport

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Class act by the team.

I genuinely can't believe this.

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Sad thing is I can believe it.

He wanted to Make America Great Again which it already is but in reality he just wanted to send it back to the 1950s and also just decided to jack someone's slogan.

So everything negative from here on out is Trump's fault? I see.