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

Keith Smith techlists at phpcoderusa.com
Fri Mar 10 19:23:45 MST 2017 

I meant once a year.

On 2017-03-10 17:57, Keith Smith wrote:
> 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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