Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-10 Thread Keith Smith
I think you are right. I think we are looking at Terminator. All the info coming out about how tech has been compromised. I once read that prior to technology an oppressive king might have one of his people contact you once a month. With technology the oppressive king can watch you

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-10 Thread Vara La Fey
More Terminator than Logan's Run. (But great movies, both of them.) Autopilot cars are a perfect example. A convenient novelty in the near-term. Mandatory in the long-term. Now imagine a mandatory autopilot that can look you up in a national ID database and then write its own code about what

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-10 Thread Vara La Fey
Wow, Kevin. Was your response to Nathan intended to prove him /wrong/?? Anyway, all 3 of you have inappropriately veered into FB/YouTube flamewar territory. I'm not on the PLUG list for this. On 3/10/2017 2:51 AM, KevinO wrote: On 03/09/2017 02:49 PM, Nathan England wrote: On 2017-03-09

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-10 Thread Vara La Fey
Hi Trent. I'm certainly not a leftist, and no longer the mild technologist I was, and my Windows Skynet analogy was actually meant to be serious. The problems I have, in rough chronological order, are a) corporate malevolence, b) governmental malevolence (esp by the left) that dwarfs the

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-10 Thread Nathan
On 2017-03-10 14:52, Matt Graham wrote: The article described code-writing software that solved problems that required <= 5 lines of code. This is fairly trivial stuff[0]. However, "Microsoft has created a program that writes code to solve certain very small problems" is much more boring than

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-10 Thread Matt Graham
On 2017-03-10 12:59, Keith Smith wrote: Please stop now before we end up feuding for days. I will not go political. Could people posting politics possibly permute the Subject: line to something different? That way people talking about code-writing bots and/or twitter bots could filter that

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-10 Thread Nathan England
On 2017-03-10 02:51, KevinO wrote: Go fuck yourself, Nathan. If I am in any way unclear about my position, merely inquire and I will more then merely express it to you clearly, in person , and in language that even YOU can understand. lol. Thanks for proving my point and showing me you

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-09 Thread Victor Odhner
Hmmm. Did my post get blocked? __ On Mar 9, 2017, at 16:59:21, Keith Smith wrote: Yep what we need is smart computers. When all this started computers were supposed to create a shorter work week. Now look what we have. Racist computers - LOL!!

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-09 Thread Keith Smith
Yep what we need is smart computers. When all this started computers were supposed to create a shorter work week. Now look what we have. Racist computers - LOL!! On 2017-03-09 15:32, Anon Anon wrote:

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-09 Thread Anon Anon
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genocidal-tweets-from-ai-chatbot-tay-2016-3 On Mar 9, 2017 15:17, "Stephen Partington" wrote: > Really? you took this there. > > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Nathan England > wrote: > >> On

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Really? you took this there. On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Nathan England wrote: > On 2017-03-09 08:47, Anon Anon wrote: > > How long until they teach this one how to create html filled with >> explitives and hate speech? >> >> > > I read this and about died laughing.

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-09 Thread Nathan England
On 2017-03-09 08:47, Anon Anon wrote: How long until they teach this one how to create html filled with explitives and hate speech? I read this and about died laughing. All I could think of was someone designing this software to act like any other liberal online. Write basic html filled

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-09 Thread Victor Odhner
We’re talking about computers understanding people. Do people understand people? Actually, as my friend Randy Galbraith once pointed out, computers have been writing code for us since 1957 when FORTRAN was first released. More recently we have Java … Using Java, you tell the computer what you

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-09 Thread Anon Anon
Tay AI but with the ability to propagate her hate beyond just memes and catch phrases. It took less than 24 hours to teach Tay to be a Nazi and to espouse hate speech. Her previous code is still in the new stuff somewhere because if you ask her questions about Tay, she expresses regret about

Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

2017-03-09 Thread Keith Smith
In the hands of good people this can be great. In the hands of evil people this could be the end. Think CIA, NSA Those wanting to control man kind. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoft-has-created-ai-can-write-its-own-code-quharrison-terry -- Keith Smith