The Turing test isn’t you and a computer. It’s you and a computer and a human. The goal is to figure out which one’s the human, not to eyeball whether an interaction feels human-ish. You are forced to admit the computer is at least as conscious as any meatbag you interact with face-to-face.
This is especially important when thinking about proper sci-fi artificial intelligence, because it avoids Chinese Room horseshit. Really, fuck John Searle in his stupid face. The man to this day insists that yanking a CPU out of its motherboard and asking about the program it was running proves the program doesn’t know anything. Changing your mind about whether something seemed intelligent, based on later finding out a computer did it, is just bigotry against computers.
The ones who were there 47 years ago remember it clearly: Han shot first. But in nearly every version of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope that you can find today, Harrison Ford’s charming smuggler was a little slow to the trigger in his face-off against Greedo — one of the many changes that director George Lucas made to the...
George, you don’t even own your movie anymore. The mouse bought it for four billion dollars.
Art belongs to its audience. Nobody has a right to censor it after-the-fact - least of all the artist. If you wanted it to be yours alone, you had the choice, and you instead decided to publish. Any control after that is a gift from us to you, and it’s a gift for the explicit purpose of getting us more art.
Matte paintings were used before the dawn of competent computer graphics to simulate a larger/more dramatic/exotic location than can be achieved in a film studio. Paint was directly applied to glass, which then sat between the camera and the actors (leaving a clear section to capture them)....
So… not compulsory then? Or do you just get fined or something? Anyway, earliest policy U-turn of the Conservative campaign so far - will it be their best?
World’s first diabetes cure with cell therapy achieved in China (interestingengineering.com)
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Ubisoft Has Disappointed Rainbow Six Fans With New 'R6 Membership' (insider-gaming.com)
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EXCLUSIVE: Florida educators trained to teach students Christian nationalism (popular.info)
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George Lucas Explains Why You’ll Never See A 4K Restoration of A New Hope (www.inverse.com)
The ones who were there 47 years ago remember it clearly: Han shot first. But in nearly every version of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope that you can find today, Harrison Ford’s charming smuggler was a little slow to the trigger in his face-off against Greedo — one of the many changes that director George Lucas made to the...
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Matte paintings were used before the dawn of competent computer graphics to simulate a larger/more dramatic/exotic location than can be achieved in a film studio. Paint was directly applied to glass, which then sat between the camera and the actors (leaving a clear section to capture them)....
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‘No one going to jail’ for avoiding UK national service, says Cleverly (www.theguardian.com)
So… not compulsory then? Or do you just get fined or something? Anyway, earliest policy U-turn of the Conservative campaign so far - will it be their best?
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