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I am a pretty liberal guy. I always questioned why we use 'his' and 'men' as generic terms for people, but I accepted it because that is what my English teachers taught. I sometimes go back to that out of habit and people aren't shy to point out that I should use "they" and "them" even in a singular way. Spend a few years without keeping up with culture (outside the US, living in China for example) and you can accidentally step on toes. I know I should adapt and I try but it is hard when I was indoctrinated in different times (only the 90s and early aughts haha). Another example is 'gypsy'. I know it isn't great to use and I understand why. But I have always loved fantasy and gypsies frequently make appearances in my novels. Anyway it looks like I may get my wish for localized 'AI' rather than something cloud based: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18...-on-an-iphone/. I hope this trends. More to empower individuals and less food for mega-corporations controlling all the resources... -PB Last edited by Pizza_Cant_Read; 11-18-2018 at 09:34 AM. |
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Absolutely agree (even with the part of the post that was snipped). I've seen critiquers (is that a word?) trying to apply rules of grammar to dialogue.
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Self-driving cars seems to be where people are predicting the real money lies. I saw a BBC News report recently about a company in Nigeria which is employing literally thousands of people to "tag" street scenes ("this is a car", "this is a building", "this is a cyclist", etc) for a major Silicon Valley corporation to improve scene recognition for car AI systems.
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https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/1...merica-384230/ And because (at least in the US) the interstates are limited access roads with zero pedestrian traffic, the problem is simpler for the software; less human judgment required. This should be even better for overnight cargo movement since there will be no danger of highway hypnosis lulling tired drivers to sleep. Plus convoy-ing the trucks will be easier at night. The combination of electric trucks and automated guidance is a natural. And, yes, lots of companies are working the details, not just in silivalley. Test runs have been ongoing for a while. As soon as Tesla, Otto, and the other electric truck companies get product on the street we should see the first pilot projects in the wild. That said, there is a third enabling technology that doesn't get as much notice in this area and that is 5G wireless. The trucks won't be fully autonomous but rather remotely managed, like drones. The onboard logic will do the mile by mile driving but routing and system monitoring will be remotely overseen by humans. That requires very low latency connectivity which is one of the operational modes of 5G. It's a big capital expense that only the biggest companies can afford but it is a technology that is coming and coming fast. UPS, FEDEX, AMAZON, and Walmart look to be the first adopters. Last edited by fjtorres; 11-19-2018 at 08:57 AM. |
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Look at most any Jerry Bruckheimer product or most any other mainstream action movie starring The Rock. Animated movies too. how many of them are about a character who has characteristics that make her an outsider, then it turns of those differences are what makes her special/helps her save the day? A bot could likely churn out several of those. |
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This sounds like a stupid idea...lol
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One of the big directors (not sure which one, Ridley Scott?) wants the the writers to completely leave the action sequences to him. Supposedly he once said, "Just write, 'things blow up'" and that was all for the 20 minute action sequence. But a movie, unlike a book, can hide its lack of plot and character development with CGI. Hard to do that with a book.
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What constitutes AI is complex. Yes, the vast majority of what we hear about now is just bigger, better, faster version of what was previously described as automation. But at some point a change in quantity may become a change in quality ... or not. I'm inclined to think that physics might stand in the way of singularity, at least.
But most of that is a straw-man argument anyway. Sure, the big companies will be chasing AI/automation for its money-making possibilities, but on the way there they will likely sponsor many diverse and interesting side-line investigations, because this sort of thing can produce unexpected benefits, and because the PR value is good for business. So I would not be at all surprised to see projects arise that deliberately try to generate an artwork of some sort that will gain popular appeal/acceptance as an artwork - long, long before AI/automation could be expected to do this on any commercially useful level. Which brings us back to the OP's original questions: Quote:
Automation could conceivably produce the second. If it does, I imagine it might be something to the effect of a mellotron but for writing. (I'm making this up as I go along, don't take me too literally.) If so, the true creativity would lie with the expert that can use such a tool effectively, as Mike Pinder managed with the mellotron for The Moody Blues. I have trouble envisaging how such a thing might work in practice, but assuming it came into existence my guess would be that many existing writers would continue as they were, and only some would adopt the new tool, and perhaps only for some work. If a truly creative AI could be sent away to think up a brand new novel then there is no point asking whether writers would use such software, because it wouldn't take a writer to use it. The impact of such an AI on the world would depend on many factors. If the sophistication required meant that only a very limited number could be run on very specialised hardware, then it would be just as if a few new writers came on the market, and the "taking away jobs" would be effectively irrelevant. Or maybe we will get KoboVac and KindleVac running quantum processors, and these new e-readers of the future won't carry any books at all*, instead the owner will say "I'd like a new cosy murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie" and the software would start to tell you the story, perhaps making it up as it went along. Around then writers would have to worry about losing their jobs ... but I'm not panicking yet. * I oversimplified for the sake of effect. Humans are social creatures, we want to share and talk about our experiences - which is why we're all here, yes? So in fact these e-readers of the future will need to be able to save and share books their owners particularly enjoyed. And this distinction make it seem likely that writers will still have jobs. Yes they will face competition, and it's possible to conceive human tastes in stories will evolve to prefer AI (or to abhor it, anyone's guess), just as our tastes have evolved in recent decades to want action from the first page. |
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Self driving trucks. What could possibly go wrong?
"A truck, navigating rush hour traffic in Boston, crashed into 48 cars and took out the supports of a bridge when the Windows 10 OS decided to do an update and shut down the onboard computer ... News at 11." And when all these "relatively high paying jobs" are replaced by robots, whose going to be able to buy the products the self-driving trucks deliver? |
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