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

Fri Mar 10 17:57:35 MST 2017

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 daily or even more often.

Just think Cyberdyne is right here in Chandler.

I hope we can learn, grow and do good things.

On 2017-03-10 15:21, Vara La Fey wrote:
> 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 it "thinks" you
> should be allowed to do thereafter.
> 
> When people give up their autonomy, their freedom and ultimately their
> lives can go with it.
> 
> You know who should be having a career resurgence right about now?
> Yeah, sci-fi authors. But people aren't thoughtful enough to support
> that kind of thing anymore.
> 
> 
> On 3/10/2017 8:21 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
>> 
>> There will always be opportunity it just shifts.  As we talked about 
>> in a prior thread, once upon a time you could get a good manufacturing 
>> job with little skill. Today you want a good paying job you have to 
>> learn a skill like A/C, plumbing, etc.
>> 
>> When I went to Disneyland 15 years ago some of the rides were 
>> "automated", moving the seating platform and changing the display so 
>> you actually felt like you were moving.  Someone had to assemble that 
>> ride.  Someone had to engineer it.  Someone had to manufacture it.  
>> And someone had to transport it.
>> 
>> In the greater scheme of things, things have not changed much in 15 
>> years.  The new minimum wage may make some alternatives more viable, 
>> such as McDonald's replacing it's order taking staff with automated 
>> ordering.  Someone will need to create those automated ordering 
>> devices.  This is a shift in skills.
>> 
>> Maybe at some point in the future we will become the Jetsons... and 
>> I'm pretty sure I will be dead by then.
>> 
>> If we continue to replace people with robots, then at some point our 
>> economy will crash.  At that point maybe the movie logan's run becomes 
>> a reality.  In the movie logan's run people are give a short life span 
>> of about 30 years.  Once they reach 30 they enter "renewal"  which is 
>> like a big bug zapper.
>> 
>> Is logan's run our future?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2017-03-10 00:19, trent shipley wrote:
>>> A while ago I heard a futurist say that if you wanted your kid to 
>>> make
>>> money in the future, they should pursue a creative career. He 
>>> expected
>>> technology jobs to go the way of manufacturing jobs -- automated out
>>> of existence.  The up side is that owners of capital will make MUCH
>>> higher profits, while consumers of IT will save some money. Also,
>>> access to IT should be more democratic since it will not rely as much
>>> on left brain thinking and scarce training.
>>> 
>>> Microsoft is hardly alone in trying to make administrators and
>>> programmers obsolete, and the repressive leftist politics or 
>>> dystopian
>>> fear mongering strike me as burying the lead--especially if you are a
>>> technologist whose job is in the cross-hairs of economic and 
>>> technical
>>> history.
>>> 
>>> Trent.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:34 PM Vara La Fey <varalafey at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Oh. Joy. A Cortana that can write its own spyware. Windows Skynet.
>>>> Upgrade today. Or else.
>>>> 
>>>> - Vara
>>>> - www.facebook.com/vara.lafey [1]
>>>> On Mar 9, 2017 11:18 PM, "Victor Odhner" <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hmmm. Did my post get blocked?
>>>> __________________
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 9, 2017, at 16:59:21, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
>>>> 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!!
>>>> 
>>>> On 2017-03-09 15:32, Anon Anon wrote:
>>>> 
>>> http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genocidal-tweets-from-ai-chatbot-tay-2016-3
>>>> On Mar 9, 2017 15:17, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Really? you took this there.
>>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Nathan England
>>>> <plug-discuss at nmecs.com> 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. All I could think of was
>>>> someone designing this software to act like any other liberal
>>>> online. Write basic html filled with explitives while spouting
>>>> hateful intolerant garbage, and it has artifical intelligence, just
>>>> like so many of today's liberals (brainwashed university
>>>> intellectualism).
>>>> -- Regards,
>>>> Nathan
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