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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 31, 2018 11:31:20 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers
That’s So Maven: Pentagon Plans Promote Unrest in the AI World
Micah Hanks
May 31, 2018
There is unrest afoot in the AI research community in recent weeks; some of this calls into question whether artificial intelligence being developed over the years to come will have an effect on legal rights to freedom of speech, while others have to do with concerns over what government institutions might do with it.
Following the debut of new technology by companies like Google and Amazon that feature voice-bot calling that can schedule appointments over the phone (while sounding eerily human), California Senator Robert M. Hertzberg put forth a motion to place restrictions on such activities, requiring bots to have to identify themselves as such.
According to the proposed bill:
“This bill would make it unlawful for any person to use a bot, as defined, to communicate or interact with natural persons in California online with the intention of misleading and would provide that a person using a bot is presumed to not act with the intent to mislead if the person discloses that the bot is not a natural person. The bill would require an online platform to enable users to report violations of this prohibition, and would require the online platform to respond to the reports and, upon request, provide the Attorney General with specified related information.”
The bill evoked ire among some in futurist circles, who responded by saying that such legislation could represent an infringement of free speech. According to the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), described by Futurism.com as “a non-profit designed to protect civil liberties in the digital age,” it’s not the bots whose right to free speech may be at stake:
“Bots are used for all sorts of ordinary and protected speech activities, including poetry, political speech, and even satire, such as poking fun at people who cannot resist arguing — even with bots. Disclosure mandates would restrict and chill the speech of artists whose projects may necessitate not disclosing that a bot is a bot.”
As one can see from this exchange of ideologies, the presence of artificial intelligence is already fomenting some interesting debate in relation to privacy, transparency, and yes, freedom of speech. However, there may be more at stake than just the eventuality of how AI–future or present–may complicate the way we coexist.
Wired reports that a recent Pentagon initiative “is planning a new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to serve all US military and intelligence agencies,” which may bear some similarity or other association with the Pentagon’s existing Project Maven.
What, you may be wondering, is Project Maven? In a memorandum dated April 26, 2017, issued by Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work under the title, “Establishment of an Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (Project Maven),” Work stated that, “As numerous studies have made clear, the Department of Defense (DoD) must integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning more effectively across operations to maintain advantages over increasingly capable adversaries and competitors.”
The same month, Work established the Pentagon’s Project Maven, telling Wired recently that the project is “exceeding my expectations.”
Wired further reports that “Google’s precise role in Project Maven is unclear—neither the search company nor the Department of Defense will say.” However, it is believed that Google’s role in the program may have to do with systems of operation for drones being used overseas.
However, not all is well between the DOD and the California Tech Giant, as now there are as many as 4000 Google employees that are protesting the Pentagon’s expansion of the program. While it remains the case that many details of Google’s involvement in the Project Maven program remain off-record, the thousands of employees now protesting its continuation should tell us something.
In an era where concerns over privacy and transparency have become paramount in western society, it is only reasonable to see apprehension at the proliferation of advanced AI and its use in warfare, especially when aided by industry leaders like Google.
It is understandable that lawmakers are willing to call into question the public’s right to know whether communications they receive are coming from artificially intelligent bots. However, perhaps there should be equal concern among elected officials about what our government is doing with advanced AI, especially when the proverbial “canary in the cage” equates to thousands of worried Silicon Valley employees who think there’s something just a bit rotten in the state of Denmark.
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/thats-so-maven-pentagon-plans-promote-unrest-in-the-ai-world/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 31, 2018 11:36:19 GMT
Just for fun:
posted 30 May 2018
Is this an example of real life teleportation? In this CCTV footage from Japan, we see a man seemingly 'teleport' from out of nowhere. Many are claiming this to be an example of people who are among us with real life super powers.
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Post by GhostofEd on May 31, 2018 13:37:32 GMT
Just for fun:
posted 30 May 2018
Is this an example of real life teleportation? In this CCTV footage from Japan, we see a man seemingly 'teleport' from out of nowhere. Many are claiming this to be an example of people who are among us with real life super powers.
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Post by HAL on May 31, 2018 20:28:47 GMT
I can't resolve this video.
Ed, would you watch it again but pay attention to the two people walking towards the man.
Try and see if there is any obvious break in their stride that coincides with the person 'appearing'.
There are a number of these kind of videos, many from Japan.
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Post by GhostofEd on May 31, 2018 21:20:05 GMT
I can't resolve this video. Ed, would you watch it again but pay attention to the two people walking towards the man. Try and see if there is any obvious break in their stride that coincides with the person 'appearing'. There are a number of these kind of videos, many from Japan. HAL I tried viewing with different speeds but nothing obvious seen as far as break in continuity. I also looked at the flashing light on the parked white vehicle. Regarding the 2 people walking by - I only see the man move to the left but it's to pass the woman. So if it's doctored I don't think it's by skipping frames. What appears to be a reflection of the "teleporter" after he walks by can be seen in the window of the white truck. I'd stick with my original thought or he was erased out by software before emerging from back of the sign.
I will recommend the following book: The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day by David J. Hand (2015)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2018 2:13:29 GMT
Check the upper left corner change of grey at same time like a flashes when he enters ..
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Post by GhostofEd on Jun 1, 2018 11:40:14 GMT
Check the upper left corner change of grey at same time like a flashes when he enters .. I see that. Looks like the railings may have plexi-glass as barriers and are showing a reflection. Maybe some light flashing or other motion somewhere? I can't think of a connection. Wish there was more footage of the whole scene or even a street location that may be travelled via Google. I have to believe all those needed bits of info exist but all we are treated with is a snipit. That's the all too common problem with this stuff - these Youtube videos are intended for clicks, shock and awe. I suppose some work could be done trying to support the possibility the sign could conceal the man if he happened to be at the ideal position and angle i.e., some studies of size and perspective. It could more easily be disproven if there was more of the footage prior. That it's not raises a red flag for me. |
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 1, 2018 12:47:16 GMT
Good morning all
Phys.org
Researchers develop electronic skins that wirelessly activate fully soft robots
June 1, 2018, Seoul National University
A research team of Seoul National University has developed a skin-like electronic system that is soft, thin, lightweight and can wirelessly activate soft robots through a simple lamination process.
They developed an electronic skin (e-skin) pair as a two-part, wireless soft driving system based on fully printable, stretchable hybrid electronics. One part is the e-skin for input sensing at a human side, and the other for activating soft robots. The e-skins are soft (same material for the target robot body), thin (<1 mm), and lightweight (~0.8 g) and also feature the spatially fragmented circuit configuration with a slew of miniature IC components (standard dimension, <1.5 mm × 1.5 mm). Therefore, they can be stretched and conformed onto the dynamic surface like human skin or soft robots.
The electronic functionality of this system is based on wireless inter-skin communication. The e-skin pair can perform wireless communication of the four-state control signal at a distance of more than 5 m, and the embedded encoding mechanism makes the inter-skin communication noise-tolerant.
The proposed e-skins can be softly, compactly, and reversibly assembled into soft robot frames to activate muscle-like soft actuators without interfering with their soft motions. Benefits of this e-skin-mediated soft robotic assembly include coadaptive movement that helps the robot pass through and/or operate in highly confined spaces, whose cross section is even smaller than the robot size. Furthermore, the proposed e-skin pair and corresponding wireless inter-skin communication concept can wirelessly activate multiple types of soft robots through reversible assembly of the e-skins.
The researchers write, "Soft robots have great advantages in organically integrating every robot components without rigid boundaries, but current soft robotic designs still rely on rigid components mostly in driving parts. This e-skin opens a new avenue for soft robotic assembly. It is soft, thin, and light enough for a robot not to be perceptible, but it can activate the robot as a driving skin."
video after the jump:
phys.org/news/2018-06-electronic-skins-wirelessly-fully-soft.html
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Post by swamprat on Jun 1, 2018 16:06:22 GMT
Hmmm..... I wonder how the entitlement generation is gonna respond to this?American Airlines' Tiny New Bathrooms Test Limits Of What U.S. Passengers Will Put Up With
Dan Reed, Contributor--May 30, 2018
Believe it or not, that's the sink in the tiny new rear lavatories aboard American Airlines' new Boeing 737-MAX aircraft. It's only large enough to wash one hand at a time.
The airline that flies more people more miles than any other in the world is, for the most part, ignoring the complaints of its own flight attendants -- and those of airline bloggers and consumer advocates -- that at just 24 inches wide the tiny restrooms installed on its brand new Boeing 737-MAX airplanes are too small and problematic for use by most adults.
This tells us that American Airlines officials believe – and may well be right – that they hold most or all of the cards and can get away with forcing 156 coach passengers to share just two lavatories that are so small a passenger only has room to wash one hand at a time. Indeed those restrooms are so narrow that passengers reportedly must decide before entering whether to walk in facing the toilet or to back in. That’s because once inside with the door closed there’s not enough room to turn around.
American air passengers apparently have very low expectations for their travel service providers, and are held in much lower regard by transportation executives. We are willing to endure a lot of discomfort and gross inconsideration in order to get where we want to go relatively quickly and at a relatively low price.
Officials at American – and really at other U.S. airlines, too - know their market very well. They know they can get away with foisting such indignities on their paying customers and face few, if any significant consequences. Oh, they may hear a complaint now and then, or a few negative jokes told on late night TV. But they know they won’t sell any fewer seats because of their new little lavs.
In fact, they expect to sell even more seats on their planes. That’s why they’re doing what they’re doing.
American’s use of those tiny lavs is part of a broader plan to milk more revenue out of each of their already jam-packed flights. The plan is to equip perhaps more than 500 Boeing 737s with those ridiculously small lavatories AND a whopping 172 tightly-packed seats. American’s 737s previously were equipped with 160 seats.
The first 737 equipped with 172 seats and two tiny bathrooms, each the size of an old-timey phone booth, entered service back in November. More are arriving every month. American has ordered 100 737-MAX aircraft, the newest version of Boeing’s hot-selling and long-lived domestic market workhorse. It also has options to buy 100 more them.
Additionally nearly all of American’s existing 737-800s – currently there are more than 300 of them – are slated to be retrofitted with those same lavatories plus an extra 12 seats over the next couple of years. Only the very oldest of American’s 737-800s won’t get the new configuration, and only because they’re headed for retirement.
And, if you’re wondering, the 737-Max and the 737-800 are exactly the same size on the inside. Thus, eventually all of American’s 737s will be equally uncomfortable and cramped.
American’s flight attendants have been complaining nonstop about the new seating – and lavatory – configurations since its debut in November. Not only is it a horribly uncomfortable situation for most travelers -- stories of passengers actually getting stuck inside have been trickling out for months – it makes attendants’ jobs all the tougher as passengers emerge from those very small places in a foul mood. The lavs’ doors, which open out into the aisle, and which have to be open for long periods as passengers try to wedge themselves in or claw their way out, also block the aisle. That traps them in the rear galley, where they mix drinks and prepare snacks, where they cannot escape the ire of passengers who just managed to squeeze themselves out of those painfully small lavatories.
If true, such stories ought to illuminate a red warning light on the 6th Floor of American’s Fort Worth Headquarters building, where the top bosses have their offices. But there’s no indication they’re going to back off their plan. The carrier these days averages filling more than 81% of its seats, which thanks to very unpopular early morning and late night flights means most flights are full or very near full. So adding a dozen more seats – and reducing the size of two lavatories to roughly the size of a 50 gallon water heater to help make room for them - to 500 or so planes in such market conditions will generate millions of dollars of additional revenue annually.
So why not do it, especially if you know there’ll be little push back from passengers, who American executives are quite confident will continue unabated to buy tickets? American’s leaders – and their counterparts at other U.S. carriers – have little to worry about. Travel consumers here will just mumble under their breath as they keep right on buying tickets.
www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2018/05/30/american-airlines-tiny-new-bathrooms-test-limits-of-what-u-s-passengers-will-put-up-with/#13da22ba5fc2
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Post by GhostofEd on Jun 1, 2018 20:54:00 GMT
Hmmm..... I wonder how the entitlement generation is gonna respond to this?American Airlines' Tiny New Bathrooms Test Limits Of What U.S. Passengers Will Put Up With
Dan Reed, Contributor--May 30, 2018
Believe it or not, that's the sink in the tiny new rear lavatories aboard American Airlines' new Boeing 737-MAX aircraft. It's only large enough to wash one hand at a time. I can probably wash one hoof at a time in that thing. But, it's a mute point since I can't fit through the door plus I use my own jet when I travel.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jun 2, 2018 11:13:46 GMT
Good Saturday lovely people!
Saturday Matinee
"This Island Earth" 1955
Crystal
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Post by GhostofEd on Jun 2, 2018 12:30:28 GMT
Ah, the good old Interocitor!
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Post by ZETAR on Jun 2, 2018 18:53:02 GMT
  SHALOM...Z
EDIT TO ADD:
I THINK WE SHOULD GIVE EACH AND EVERY MEMBER...MODS...AND TO SAY THE LEAST...ADMIN...A SINCERE ROUND OF APPLAUSE! YOU UNQUESTIONABLY MAKE THE JOURNEY AND FORUM MEMORABLE!
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