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[Ohio]

Originally Posted by awareness

All the worlds' problems will be solved by 2042.

"An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?"

"In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious questions to ask about whether this AI — which could design and program additional AI programs all on its own, read data from an almost infinite number of data sources, and control almost every connected device on the planet — will somehow rise in status to become more like a god, something that can write its own bible and draw humans to worship it."
https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/02/a...ou-worship-it/

Is it voluntary, or will you die resisting?

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Is it voluntary, or will you die resisting?

Resistance is futile.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by awareness

Resistance is futile.

I would prefer to be a martyr. How about you?

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Ohio

I would prefer to be a martyr. How about you?

I'll be The Terminator. Or, I'll just unplug the damn thing.

[awareness]

Tax Incentive Puts More Robots on Factory Floors
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-inc...ors-1516962600

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by awareness

Tax Incentive Puts More Robots on Factory Floors
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-inc...ors-1516962600

So one interesting example is the ubiquitous camera. Everyone now is carrying a smart phone with a camera and video camera. Some people even wear these cameras like Google's products that use AI to decide what pictures to take and what to delete. As a result it is much harder for someone to be a full time photographer, but on the other hand we now have much better pictures of every event.

Student shootings in schools are no longer some reporter outside the building, but rather smart phone images inside the building at the time of the attack.

When the news is looking for a person of interest in a crime there is almost always a decent photo of the person that they can show.

Train crashes, terrorist attacks, some idiot biting a cell phone battery. We don't simply get the photo from a reporter thirty minutes later, we get to see photos and videos live, as the event unfolds.

I think we would all agree that there are much better pictures now than thirty years ago, and yet the possibility of someone being a professional photographer is harder. If you hire a photographer for the wedding three fourths of the best photos will come from everyone's smart phone. So people still do hire them for a couple of official pictures, but it becomes less and less necessary. As these cameras get better and cheaper no one needs to be a "professional" to have top quality equipment.

[awareness]

Billy Graham's Granddaughter Says What We're All Thinking About Trump's Evangelical Enablers
His religious supporters are hypocrites who "send the wrong message to the world about what Christianity is."

Scuitto asked if Evangelicals, including her uncle Franklin Graham and grandfather, would be as lenient if former President Barack Obama had an extramarital affair with a porn star. “I think we all know the answer to that,” Armfield responded, dismissing her own relatives as "these Evangelicals."

Armfield later said that she wished Evangelicals who support Trump's policies on subjects like abortion would have the decency to say Trump's behavior "disgusts" them, because Evangelicals are "sending the wrong message to the world about what Christianity is."

Watch the clip below.
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...ps-evangelical