https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603868/how-deepminds-memory-trick-helps-ai-learn-faster/
Intelligent Machines
How DeepMind's Memory Trick Helps AI Learn Faster
While AI systems can match many human capabilities, they take 10 times longer to learn. Now, by copying the way the brain works, Google DeepMind has built a machine that is closing the gap.
by Emerging Technology from the arXiv March 16, 2017
(https://d267cvn3rvuq91.cloudfront.net/i/images/nec.png?sw=600&cx=0&cy=0&cw=662&ch=414)
Intelligent machines have humans in their sights. Deep-learning machines already have superhuman skills when it comes to tasks such as face recognition, video-game playing, and even the ancient Chinese game of Go. So it's easy to think that humans are already outgunned.
But not so fast. Intelligent machines still lag behind humans in one crucial area of performance: the speed at which they learn. When it comes to mastering classic video games, for example, the best deep-learning machines take some 200 hours of play to reach the same skill levels that humans achieve in just two hours.
So computer scientists would dearly love to have some way to speed up the rate at which machines learn.
Today, Alexander Pritzel and pals at Google's DeepMind subsidiary in London claim to have done just that. These guys have built a deep-learning machine that is capable of rapidly assimilating new experiences and then acting on them. The result is a machine that learns significantly faster than others and has the potential to match humans in the not too distant future.
First, some background. Deep learning uses layers of neural networks to look for patterns in data. When a single layer spots a pattern it recognizes, it sends this information to the next layer, which looks for patterns in this signal, and so on.
So in face recognition, one layer might look for edges in an image, the next layer for circular patterns of edges (the kind that eyes and mouths make), and the next for triangular patterns such as those made by two eyes and a mouth. When all this happens, the final output is an indication that a face has been spotted.
Of course, the devil is in the details. There are various systems of feedback to allow the system to learn by adjusting various internal parameters such as the strength of connections between layers. These parameters must change slowly, since a big change in one layer can catastrophically affect learning in the subsequent layers. That's why deep neural networks need so much training and why it takes so long.
Pritzel and co have tackled this problem with a technique they call neural episodic control. "Neural episodic control demonstrates dramatic improvements on the speed of learning for a wide range of environments," they say. "Critically, our agent is able to rapidly latch onto highly successful strategies as soon as they are experienced, instead of waiting for many steps of optimisation."
The basic idea behind DeepMind's approach is to copy the way humans and animals learn quickly. The general consensus is that humans can tackle situations in two different ways. If the situation is familiar, our brains have already formed a model of it, which they use to work out how best to behave. This uses a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex.
But when the situation is not familiar, our brains have to fall back on another strategy. This is thought to involve a much simpler test-and-remember approach involving the hippocampus. So we try something and remember the outcome of this episode. If it is successful, we try it again, and so on. But if it is not a successful episode, we try to avoid it in future.
This episodic approach suffices in the short term while our prefrontal brain learns. But it is soon outperformed by the prefrontal cortex and its model-based approach.
Pritzel and co have used this approach as their inspiration. Their new system has two approaches. The first is a conventional deep-learning system that mimics the behaviur of the prefrontal cortex. The second is more like the hippocampus. When the system tries something new, it remembers the outcome.
But crucially, it doesn't try to learn what to remember. Instead, it remembers everything. "Our architecture does not try to learn when to write to memory, as this can be slow to learn and take a significant amount of time," say Pritzel and co. "Instead, we elect to write all experiences to the memory, and allow it to grow very large compared to existing memory architectures."
They then use a set of strategies to read from this large memory quickly. The result is that the system can latch onto successful strategies much more quickly than conventional deep-learning systems.
They go on to demonstrate how well all this works by training their machine to play classic Atari video games, such as Breakout, Pong, and Space Invaders. (This is a playground that DeepMind has used to train many deep-learning machines.)
The team, which includes DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassibis, shows that neural episodic control vastly outperforms other deep-learning approaches in the speed at which it learns. "Our experiments show that neural episodic control requires an order of magnitude fewer interactions with the environment," they say.
That's impressive work with significant potential. The researchers say that an obvious extension of this work is to test their new approach on more complex 3-D environments.
It'll be interesting to see what environments the team chooses and the impact this will have on the real world. We'll look forward to seeing how that works out.
Ref: Neural Episodic Control : arxiv.org/abs/1703.01988
....................................
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/deepmind-ai-learns-to-remember-previous-knowledge/ar-AAoneKY
DeepMind AI learns to 'remember' previous knowledge
Engadget Engadget
Jon Fingas
5 days ago
(http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAomgzE.img?h=491&w=874&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=795&y=421)
© Provided by Engadget
For all the talk of artificial intelligence becoming increasingly brain-like, there's one area where it frequently falls short: memory. Neural networks usually have to learn everything they need to know about their duties, rather than building on top of existing experiences like real brains do. Alphabet's DeepMind team hopes to fix that. They've crafted an algorithm that lets a neural network 'remember' past knowledge and learn more effectively. The approach is similar to how your own mind works, and might even provide insights into the functioning of human minds.
Much like real synapses, which tend to preserve connections between neurons when they've been useful in the past, the algorithm (known as Elastic Weight Consideration) decides how important a given connection is to its associated task. Ask the neural network to learn a new task and the algorithm will safeguard the most valuable connections, linking them to new tasks when relevant. In tests with 10 classic Atari video games, the AI didn't need learn how to play each game in isolation. It could learn them sequentially, taking the knowledge accrued in one game and applying it to the other.
The technology is more than a little rough around the edges. It's a jack of all trades, but a master of none. A single-task neural network is still better when limited to one game, DeepMind's James Kirkpatrick says toWired. It's also not ready to adapt to situations on the spot. The algorithm shows that it's at least possible to give AI memory-like functions, however. And what DeepMind has learned here could shed light on how real brains consolidate information -- it may well validate theories that have existed for years.
DeepMind, PNAS
Sounds like Skynet is growing faster and getting closer to becoming self-aware 8)
Quote from: the seeker on March 20, 2017, 10:19:56 PM
Sounds like Skynet is growing faster and getting closer to becoming self-aware 8)
Mimick "Self awareness," maybe, but all machines are reliant on their programming. I suggest that machines will never achieve true Self awareness.
Can Machines Party? :o
Nope but the Beastie boys can :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ5yKJlhbiA
I lament the day's when True Thinker's were featured in the MSM... They were pushing for Tibetan Freedom and getting Banned by China...now our Military are too scared to scuttle that bullshit even though it has been declared BS legally.
If anyone here has Netflix, please do watch the TV Serie's called Black Mirror.
It's brilliant in depicting the near future and the drama's that may lay ahead... serious!
this guy is a bit hard to listen too but if you can stay awake the info is verry interesting
and scary
min 18 smart dust / magnetically activated nano particles
and it gets scarier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Exw8Y9nfmI
DARPA Insider says Scientist on Verge of Cataclysmic Discovery FULL VIDEO
Published on Mar 22, 2017
DARPA Insider Explains Where Were At Today.
Robert Duncan is a scientist with multiple degrees from Dartmouth College and Harvard University in Applied Sciences (e.g., artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and robotics) and Business. He has worked on projects for the CIA, Department of Defense, and Department of Justice. In 2004 he testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Judiciary Committee, and 23 members of Congress regarding non-consensual experimentation on American citizens.
In 2010 he authored, in partnership with an anonymous consortium of scientists calling themselves the "Mind Hacking Strategy Group," a book entitled Project: Soul Catcher, Secrets of Cyber and Cybernetic Warfare Revealed. He has appeared on the radio show Coast To Coast and was interviewed by Jesse Ventura for the "Brain Invaders" episode of the television program Conspiracy Theory. [1]
I cited Duncan's work in an article I wrote for Veterans Today and Nexus Magazine called "Mind Control In The 21st Century" (Part I and Part II). Recently I had the opportunity to speak with him.
In the interview posted below we discuss, among other topics, remote "mind reading," CIA hive mind experimentation (multiple people sharing the same mental "space"), how people can be targeted and tracked remotely via their energy signature or "brain print," the existence and use of a technology for remotely "cloning" or "copying" thoughts, emotions and other states (including intense pain) onto a target, [2] and how a weapons system capable of totalitarian control has been developed (with non-consensual and often-times brutal experimentation on civilians ongoing).
Duncan also reveals that many people are now in wireless mental contact with artificial intelligence run on supercomputers.
It is worth noting that current research projects, according to Duncan, have targeted people from all walks of life, not merely (or mainly) the "downtrodden," as was done in the past.
Some of these targets are threatened with harm to themselves or family members if they do not carry out the instructions of their "handler," or are promised release from their tortures if they perform some action. [3]
For example, Myron May, the Florida State University shooter, a former assistant district attorney, posted on Facebook before the shooting:
Has anyone been asked to kill promise of freedom
Duncan, who has interviewed many targets, has said that he immediately recognized the "torture script" used on May after listening to a recording in which May discusses his ordeal.
Perhaps most frightening is Duncan's contention that the scalability of this technology is being tested: "...[A] lot of people won't believe me and that's fine. But they're increasing this. They are scaling this technology to the entire population.
[1] A partial summary history of his work (classification prevents full disclosure) includes: Tank recognition from satellites, submarine signature recognition from acoustic underwater phased arrays, stock market statistical arbitrage, voice and vascular signature recognition, truth detection systems, robotic surgery in medicine, EEG controlled robots, and "brain print" recognition.
[2] The technology is called "EEG Cloning" or "EEG Heterodyning." The brain patterns (electromagnetic signals) "cloned" onto the target may be catalogued brain patterns stored in computers, though live signals from a "real person's" brain could also be transmitted to the target.
[3] The handler communicates with the target through a technology for transmitting voices into people's heads which goes by many names, including "voice to skull," synthetic telepathy," "microwave hearing," and the "Frey effect." The communication may also be accomplished via EEG heterodyning, which involves "re-mapping the auditory cortex of the human brain." Other technologies for transmitting voices include "ultrasonic heterodyning" and bone conduction techniques.
Category
People & Blogs
License
Standard YouTube License
QuoteCan Machines Party?
hummmmmmmmm, you decide bwhahahahahahahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHdcjW3bDTk
Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering-Farm Machine Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkaUsBwe0fo
Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know - Old School Computer Remix
and just a a bit creepy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toXNVbvFXyk
"Resonant Chamber" - Animusic.com
i've been looking around and this stuff and sorry too late to add this to reply 6
just an observation
looking at his picture at this link after watching the video of him makes me think he is medicated..the face flush and the face swelling
https://www.drrobertduncan.com/
Subjects needed for research
We have a limited number of prototypes for which we are collecting data to alleviate electromagnetic sensitivity or prove to the government that regulations must be passed to protect a certain population.
In this study we are conducting tests for a double blind study for a particular group which will give us the data we need to proceed with this design.
These are the qualifications that you must meet to participate:
You must currently and for the foreseeable future live in a house in the part of the United States that has moist soil. The house is necessary because if it is wired correctly, the third prong of your electrical outlet should be Earth grounded. Trailers and dry soil/sand will not work correctly for this study.
You must submit a $200 deposit for borrowing the prototype to ensure that theft does not occur of these prototypes. This is fully refundable – shipping costs within 90 days. We realize that some people may not want to give them back if they work for them.
Instructions of use are included with the device. Follow them exactly.
Send the survey results back in the pre-paid envelope provided.
Important! For this study we need "Targeted Individuals" that fit this profile exactly. The person must have a reasonably good bill of health including mental health other than hearing voices. The voices must say things like "We are giving you cancer. We are going to kill you. We are going to kill your family. You are ugly. Etc." Typical psychological breakdown techniques. The voices should be somewhat mild to moderate. This is due to the sensitivity of the individual. The dampening algorithm and field cannot fully detune the fully tortured and scrambled individual. We need this data pure so please be honest or you will destroy the truth that we seek for further progress.
If you fit this profile and would like to participate in this study, send your name, email address, physical address, phone #, and a one paragraph description of your symptoms to HigherOrderThinkers@gmail.com. Your information will be recorded so you must feel comfortable with that.
Prototype bio-field dampener:
(https://www.drrobertduncan.com/unit%207%20prototype.jpg)
also money list of parts needed
...................................
Continue to drrobertduncan.com now
A holiday message from Dr. Robert Duncan A.B., S.M., M.B.A., Ph.D. and Todd Giffen
December 12, 2016
this seems to take you to ctc
https://www.drrobertduncan.com/index.html
......................................
http://www.declassifieddocuments.com/2016/10/cia-engineer-dr-robert-duncan-targeted-individual-cia-whistleblower-black-project-scientist.html
Monday, October 24, 2016
CIA Engineer Dr. Robert Duncan
Dr. Robert Duncan is an Ex-CIA black project scientist who figured out they were targeting innocent people domestically and became a whistleblower. He has some great advice for targeted individuals and some great information in some areas.
This page is dedicated to information about or from Ex-CIA Engineer / Whistleblower Dr. Robert Duncan. Anyone willing to courageously blow the whistle on sources like the CIA has earned my respect.
............................
well i don't know how to just list the you tube so sorry here's the whole thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30seQeBI-Tc
.........................................
search with his name gives lots of links
https://www.google.com/#q=dr.+robert+duncan&*
Quote from: Amaterasu on March 21, 2017, 12:46:46 PM
Mimick "Self awareness," maybe, but all machines are reliant on their programming. I suggest that machines will never achieve true Self awareness.
Ah but you are WRONG :P We are very close to self aware machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuRc1r_N34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C9XBQmlGbo
Quote from: Amaterasu on March 21, 2017, 12:46:46 PM
Mimick "Self awareness," maybe, but all machines are reliant on their programming.
Yes, but you can program a machine to change its programming, I did that some years ago (with a very limited list of changes for a few specific commands), and that's how polymorphic computer viruses work.
Quote from: Amaterasu on March 21, 2017, 12:46:46 PM
Mimick "Self awareness," maybe, but all machines are reliant on their programming. I suggest that machines will never achieve true Self awareness.
You seem to not be cognizant of the fact that you are a biologic machine, programmed from birth, and that 2 pounds of grey matter in your noggin is nothing more than a highly advanced computer that performs millions of functions a second, reliant on all your programming you have amassed since birth
::)
Seeker
There is one thing that we have, that cannot be replicated . That is the Soul. I would say most are not even aware they have one. And we are the only ones that can destroy our own. They are not placed in all species. There is nothing religious about the soul, it is way more mysterious, than any religion could ever be.
Maybe if we where more aware of the "special cargo " we carry with-in us it would give us "pause" for true thought. :)
IBM Watson, Smartest Machine ever built
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT96FtEcYjI
Jeopardy Watson IBM Fast Computer Artificial Intelligence Software Win Million Donation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Obm0DBvwI&t=3s
Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2M-SeKey4o
im still not sure about watson,may be a giant psyop.i want to test it myself.
A51,
The sound is wonky on that first Watson video.
Irene :)
Quote from: Irene on April 18, 2017, 03:49:15 PM
A51,
The sound is wonky on that first Watson video.
Irene :)
Sounds fine here Irene.
Let's see what other members have to say.
Quote from: A51Watcher on April 19, 2017, 04:18:47 AM
Let's see what other members have to say.
I skimmed through the video and it sounded OK.
Well i hope they hurry up and figure out how to put my brain into an Android :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4VmJcZR0Yg
LOL Zorgon, why would you want to do that to yourself? :P
(http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/673/wysiwyg_imageupload/1/krang-concept-art-tmnt.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZh51bDuCmE
Quote from: the seeker on April 02, 2017, 01:48:43 AM
You seem to not be cognizant of the fact that you are a biologic machine, programmed from birth, and that 2 pounds of grey matter in your noggin is nothing more than a highly advanced computer that performs millions of functions a second, reliant on all your programming you have amassed since birth
::)
Seeker
I am far more than this flesh. I AM spirit, with this meat case to bring Me awareness of Now... I fully disagree with Your assessment.
Quote from: the seeker on April 02, 2017, 01:48:43 AM
You seem to not be cognizant of the fact that you are a biologic machine, programmed from birth, and that 2 pounds of grey matter in your noggin is nothing more than a highly advanced computer that performs millions of functions a second, reliant on all your programming you have amassed since birth
::)
Seeker
Sure, a computer can be programmed to change itself, or to use specific inputs to instigate specific self structuring in reaction to specific external input..but the word here that smashes it all is..specific..
Universal Fractal growth and unfolding will put the roadblock in the path of current hamfisted science on this matter...the human brain is adaptable, because it is organic, and until computers are fully interfaced with organic living matter, the next step..replacement..will only be a pipe dream.
We have a 100% better chance at being overrun by nature than ever being overrun by self aware computers.
As for souls and all that..well..as we are all electrical components of a greater circuit, we can wax on about how we know this and understand that, but that no different than the capacitor trying to understand the resistor on the other end of the circuit, until one incorporates the organic element..life..or electricity, the flow of information through a single whole of all things we perceive.
Man is long away from even coming close to how this all works, and these revelations of "soon" or "its coming", are just funding grabs to continue the stagnating science that ignores the oneness and complete connectivity of ALL.
As Amy says, theres something to the Now, which is an immeasurable moment, where all information is available to those who tune in, and look for the signal within the static.
Seeker is right as well, our brain is just an electro-chemical device, meant to perform a set of repeatable functions within a select environment known as a "body", no more..we are truly at the bottom of the food chain here, and until the unfettered hubris of mainstream scientists steps aside, reality is a fleeting wish for the human race.
In the end, you guys know we are all correct, right?
Cheers
Le
http://m.unknowncountry.com/news/chinese-scientists-put-ai-your-smartphone
Chinese Scientists to Put AI in Your Smartphone
Two scientists from China have recently received a major amount of funding to develop their deep-learning, artificial intelligence processor. The funding comes from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who allocated 10 million yuan ($1.4 million USD), with the expectation that their revolutionary new chip, called 'Cambrian', will be the first commercially-available processor that simulates human neurons -- meaning that an extremely powerful, energy efficient AI chip could one day be installed into personal mobile devices, like smartphones.
The research team's leads, Chen Yunji and his brother Chen Tianshi, from the CAS's Institute of Computing Technology, unveiled their new chip design in early 2016, but lacked the funding to develop it for commercial use. Naming the chip 'Cambrian', a geological period from 500 million years ago that saw an explosion in the diversity of multi-cellular organisms, the Chens see their creation surpassing the $45 billion USD valuation of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi, as Cambrian would be many times more powerful than a microchip with conventional architecture, but with only a fraction of the energy cost.
Computer chips like Cambrian are typically referred to as neuromorphic chips, computer chips that mimic the structure of human neurons, as opposed to the 2-dimensional grid of switches that modern computers are built on. Currently, AI programs like Google's AlphaGo and IBM's Watson require the use of supercomputers to function: modern computers need to process thousands of instructions simply to simulate the learning structure for AI, but a purpose-built circuit only needs one instruction to operate a cluster of artificial neurons. Because of the extreme efficiency that results from this, both in terms of processing power and energy requirements, this means that an AI program like Siri could be built directly into a smartphone, rather than simply being an interface that needs to communicate with a remote computer server to function.
"Their chip and new set of instructions [DianNaoYu] is completely different from anything we have seen before," explains Li Jianmin, an associate professor of AI at Tsinghua University in Beijing. DianNaoYu, simply meaning "electric brain/computer language" in Putonghua, is the Chens' custom-built machine language for use in the Cambrian ships.
"If the technology works, it will start a revolution."
Image Credit: Microsoft
News Source: Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-04/09/c_136193725.htm
Chinese science academy invests in deep learning processor
Source: Xinhua| 2017-04-09 13:04:57|Editor: ZD
BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has earmarked 10 million yuan (1.4 million U.S. dollars) for the research and development of an advanced AI processor.
The deep learning processor chip, the "Cambrian," is expected to be the world's first processor that simulates human nerve cells and synapses to conduct deep learning, according to a statement issued by CAS.
The program is named after the Cambrian Period, which marked a rapid diversification of lifeforms on earth. Scientists are expecting the processor to spearhead a new era in AI.
The statement said that the investment would be used in basic research areas to explore the structure and algorithm for the next generation of AI, which will lay the foundations for China's ambition in the global chip market.
The funds will also be used to promote the Cambrian.
The Cambrian research team is led by Chen Yunji and Chen Tianshi from the CAS Institute of Computing Technology.
Google's AI program AlphaGo needs huge power and large servers to operate, but the Cambrian aims to perform at the same level and use just one watt of power and be the size of a smartphone or a watch, according to Chen Yunji.
AlphaGo scored a 4-1 victory over Korean Go master Lee Se-dol last year.
Stories like this: artificial intelligence
It's spreading like a virus, don't like it at all.
You can drag and drop a photo here -
https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/ (https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/)
and Watson will analyze it for you.
Pretty darn good image recognition.
It's best guess on my avatar was a lamp, and best guess on Deuem photos was microbial life.
Quote from: A51Watcher on May 11, 2017, 05:59:15 AM
You can drag and drop a photo here -
https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/ (https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/)
and Watson will analyze it for you.
Pretty darn good image recognition.
It's best guess on my avatar was a lamp, and best guess on Deuem photos was microbial life.
Interesting, and accurate in some cases, but he failed completely to identify a sideways photo.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-made-an-ai-that-can-read-minds/ar-BBDrLuf?li=BBnbcA1
Scientists made an AI that can read minds
Engadget Engadget
Tom Regan 1 hr ago
Whether it's using AI to help organize a Lego collection or relying on an algorithm to protect our cities, deep learning neural networks seemingly become more impressive and complex each day. Now, however, some scientists are pushing the capabilities of these algorithms to a whole new level - they're trying to use them to read minds.
By reverse-engineering signals sent by the brain, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have been working on an AI that can read complex thoughts simply by looking at brain scans. Using data collected from a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, the CMU scientists feed that data into their machine learning algorithms, which then locate the building blocks that the brain uses to create complex thoughts.
Impressively, the study showed that the team were able to demonstrate where and how the brain was being triggered while processing 240 complex events, covering everything from individuals to places and even various physical actions or aspects of social interaction. It's by understanding these triggers that the algorithm can use the brain scans to predict what is being thought about at the time, connecting these thoughts into a coherent sentence.
Selecting 239 of these complex sentences and feeding the AI the corresponding brain scans, the algorithm managed to successfully predict the correct thoughts with an astounding 87 percent accuracy. It could also do the reverse, receiving a sentence and then outputting an accurate image of how it predicted that thought would be mapped inside a human brain.
The astonishing research shows just how far deep learning has come. If you weren't worried about the rise of super powered machines before, now that they can read minds, it's probably time to start preparing for the inevitable robot apocalypse.
Human Brain Mapping
clicking on that takes you to a pdf here
Wang_Just_HBM-2017_Journal-preprint
useless eater takes on a whole new meaning here...sigh
http://triblive.com/business/technology/12458964-74/these-kale-farming-robots-in-pittsburgh-dont-need-soil-or-even-much
These kale farming robots in Pittsburgh don't need soil or even much water
AARON AUPPERLEE | Monday, July 3, 2017, 12:09 a.m.
(http://triblive.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=i5C2jnt7gg49_6rRVPgUv8$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYsjRpRFsWYklexUFjWnKtUVWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg)
robotic vertical farming
Robots could grow your next salad inside an old steel mill on Pittsburgh's South Side.
And the four co-founders of the robotic, indoor, vertical farming startup RoBotany could next tackle growing the potatoes for the french fries to top it.
"We're techies, but we have green thumbs," said Austin Webb, one of the startup's co-founders.
It's hard to imagine a farm inside the former Republic Steel and later Follansbee Steel Corp. building on Bingham Street. During World War II, the plant produced steel for artillery guns and other military needs. The blueprints were still locked in a safe in a closet in the building when RoBotany moved in.
Graffiti from raves and DJ parties once held in the space still decorate the walls. There's so much space, the RoBotany team can park their cars indoors.
.
.
.
— see a 20,000-square-foot farm with robots scaling racks up to 25 feet high. This farm could produce 2,000 pounds of food a day and could be replicated in warehouses across the country, putting fresh produce closer to the urban populations that need it and do it while reducing the environmental strain traditional farming puts on water and soil resources.
"It's the first step in solving a lot of these issues that are already past the breaking point," Austin Webb said.
RoBotany is a robotics, software and analytics company aiming to bundle its expertise to make indoor, vertical farming more efficient and economical.
.
.
.
The team speaks the same language when it comes to why they formed RoBotany. The population is growing. Traditional farming degrades soil and pollutes water. Current vertical farming takes a lot work and doesn't use labor and space efficiently.
.
.
.
The company started in June 2016 with its first farm in a conference room at Carnegie Mellon University's Project Olympus startup accelerator in Oakland.
The first version of the farm was 50 square feet and produced about a pound of micro leafy greens or herbs a day. Once the farm was up and running, RoBotany supplied arugula and cilantro to the Whole Foods in the South Hills under the brand Pure Sky Farms. The team delivered its latest produce Friday.
.
.
In a RoBotany farm, robots move up and down high racks moving long, skinny trays of plants into different growing environments. The amount and color of LED lights can be controlled. So can the amount and make-up of the nutrient-rich mist sprayed directly onto the roots of the plants.
The plants — micro versions of leafy greens like kale, spinach and arugula and herbs like cilantro and basil — grow in a synthetic mesh rather than soil. The roots hang freely from the bottom of the trays.
Plants grow two to three times faster than outdoors, Austin Webb said. They use 95 percent less water. And they have the nutritional value and taste to rival any traditionally grown produce, he said.
The company has raised $750,000 to date and hopes to raise $10 million when it closes its first round of financing this summer to begin construction of the big farm. The team hopes to have it up and running by the winter.
.
.
Eventually, RoBotany will expand its crops to include other fruits and vegetables.
"You can't just feed the world on lettuce," Austin Webb said.
Well, there's a lot of positives with this set up, considering the state of the air and water everywhere Otter. xo
The farmers would probably go broke, but I think they need to change the way they grow, try to get finance to put up big hothouse type production if they can. xxoo
lol,i feel like im being baited reading this thread,but whats coming tonight is bigger than everything posted in this thread.12:01am ct tonight.a history will start out and end with evidence.its gonna take time to sink in and i feel there will be mass denial but i promise to deliver a big theory.
oh and any confessions should be made.if there are any big sinners out there,lol.this is gonna be fun!
Quote from: robomont on July 04, 2017, 12:18:42 AM
lol,i feel like im being baited reading this thread,but whats coming tonight is bigger than everything posted in this thread.12:01am ct tonight.a history will start out and end with evidence.its gonna take time to sink in and i feel there will be mass denial but i promise to deliver a big theory.
oh and any confessions should be made.if there are any big sinners out there,lol.this is gonna be fun!
I feel I am well up with prophecy, just watched a youtube with Lynn Leahz, prophesizing, I have no fear I think :-\ of what is to come, but you should know I am not into religious dogma, but follow Christ.
How are you being baited.
The last thing anyone should be doing is pointing the fingers at other people; let them make their own decisions, be open with your own beliefs and don't make fun, cuz its not funny at all.
I pray for other people, that's just my choice.
oh the guys on here know im not religious nor christian.im more falling along the lines of buddism and karma.
but even athiest recognize sin for what it is.i will not be judging anything but facts of a history going back to the beginning of 20th century to now,if you have nothing to hide.......you have nothing to fear (6666)
and my thread will not be religious but will have a few religious symbols in it as ai has a base religious program.the ai that exist nowadays.lol,this is gonna rock so hard!
Quote from: robomont on July 04, 2017, 01:33:21 AM
and my thread will not be religious but will have a few religious symbols in it as ai has a base religious program.the ai that exist nowadays.lol,this is gonna rock so hard!
You sound like Tom DeLonge, "it's going to be huge", "it's going to be announced in 60 days", but nothing special happens. :P
There's nothing quite like a news story about some aspect of artificial intelligence, to cause a person to question their desire to continue to live.
Quote from: robomont on July 04, 2017, 01:33:21 AM
and my thread will not be religious but will have a few religious symbols in it as ai has a base religious program.the ai that exist nowadays.lol,this is gonna rock so hard!
So quit spamming every thread with hype about it 8)
I think the term you're actually looking for, Seeker, is "word salad." Just my observation.
Shasta
Quote from: Shasta56 on July 04, 2017, 04:04:58 AM
I think the term you're actually looking for, Seeker, is "word salad." Just my observation.
Shasta
I had the same thought, Shasta; but then I remembered that for me to accuse anyone else of insanity, would be rather hypocritical.
Quote from: Shasta56 on July 04, 2017, 04:04:58 AM
I think the term you're actually looking for, Seeker, is "word salad." Just my observation.
Shasta
Nah 8) I am old school and never politically correct
thats funny,i turn javascript off and smy disappears,i turn it back on and amy reappears,hmm.four folks on here and nobody comments on my thread,hmm.strange how that works.
Quote from: robomont on July 04, 2017, 02:49:47 PM
hmm.four folks on here and nobody comments on my thread,hmm.strange how that works.
That's because i'm lurking in the shadows and read all the stuff @pegasus
Robo,
Do you think it's possible the all-seeing eye is really the all-seeing AI (pronounced aye)?
Irene
That is a very good thought Irene. Never thought of that but makes sense.
Good to see you back btw!
;)
Quote from: micjer on July 04, 2017, 03:39:13 PM
That is a very good thought Irene. Never thought of that but makes sense.
Good to see you back btw!
;)
:)
Quote from: The Seeker on July 04, 2017, 01:03:41 PM
Nah 8) I am old school and never politically correct
It's actually medical terminology.
Quote from: Shasta56 on July 04, 2017, 11:58:55 PM
It's actually medical terminology.
Indeed 8) Please elaborate, Shasta; you have my attention :P
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-is-the-biggest-risk-that-we-face-as-a-civilization/ar-BBEvYdB
Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Is the Biggest Risk That We Face as a Civilization
U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report
Casey Leins
1 day ago
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Artificial intelligence the "biggest risk that we face as a civilization" Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Saturday, speaking to state leaders on the last day of the National Governors Association summer meeting.
The business magnate participated in a question and answer session with Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, the incoming chair of the National Governors Association, whose initiative explores how state leaders can prepare for and benefit from innovative technologies.
Musk made his stance clear that governors must address artificial intelligence proactively, or it will be too late. Without proper regulations in place, he warned, industries will become completely autonomous, posing a threat not only to jobs but to the nation's safety. He said the government "doesn't have insight" into AI yet but, when they do, "I think people will be very afraid, as they should be."
.
.
.
Responding to Musk's somber warnings, the governors were eager for advice on how to defend their states.
rest at link
An Advanced AI Has Been Deployed to Fight Against HackersQuoteIt takes a truly massive network of hundreds of thousands of computers to help scientists around the world unravel the mysteries of the Universe, which is the purpose of the CERN grid (CERN stands for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, in English, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics). Naturally, however, particle physicists aren't the only ones who want to access that kind of computing power. Hackers are also interested in CERN's grid, and CERN scientists are skipping past standard cybersecurity measures and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to stay protected.
It is the job of any cybersecurity effort to detect unusual activity and identify possible threats. Of course, systems can look for known code worms and viruses, but malware changes too fast for humans to keep up with it. This is where AI and machine learning comes in. CERN scientists are teaching their AI system to distinguish between safe and threatening behavior on the network and take action when it detects a problem.
https://futurism.com/an-advanced-ai-has-been-deployed-to-fight-against-hackers/ (https://futurism.com/an-advanced-ai-has-been-deployed-to-fight-against-hackers/)
It is more than likely that if the "Machine Learning" process involves tracing and countermeasures we could see a scenario of cyber warfare conducted all on it's own. Hackers are probably already also jumping on the machine learning AI bandwagon.
This in the news today - http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/20/politics/havana-sonic-attacks/index.html :-\
Quote from: fansongecho on August 21, 2017, 10:42:40 AM
This in the news today - http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/20/politics/havana-sonic-attacks/index.html :-\
Fans, if you would, a 40-50 word synopsis about these posts would be appreciated, and preferably a new thread covering this subject matter, for this article really doesn't have much to do with the replacement of meatsuit humans by cyborgs or robotic entities...
plus it is on CNN
::)
Seeker
I hear you Seeker, apologies for posting on the wrong thread -
It was very widely reported Globally -
https://www.bing.com/search?q=us+and+canada+diplomats+attacked+by+microwave+weapon+in+cuba&mkt=en-gb&httpsmsn=1&refig=8bb325fc62184e17fb0a416be85fdb92&pq=us+and+canada+diplomats+attacked+by+microwave+weapon+in+cuba&sc=0-17&sp=-1&qs=n&sk=&first=101&FORM=POR
thanks,
Fans'
Quote from: fansongecho on August 21, 2017, 12:16:37 PM
I hear you Seeker, apologies for posting on the wrong thread -
It was very widely reported Globally -
https://www.bing.com/search?q=us+and+canada+diplomats+attacked+by+microwave+weapon+in+cuba&mkt=en-gb&httpsmsn=1&refig=8bb325fc62184e17fb0a416be85fdb92&pq=us+and+canada+diplomats+attacked+by+microwave+weapon+in+cuba&sc=0-17&sp=-1&qs=n&sk=&first=101&FORM=POR
thanks,
Fans'
No Apologies necessary ;D Just pointing out that it deserves it's own thread, and I am sure you could make a very informative piece out of it
8)
Seeker
ya know getting fired is bad enough but this..wow The man who was fired by a machineBy Jane Wakefield
Technology reporter
6 hours ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44561838
Quote"It wasn't the first time my key card failed, I assumed it was time to replace it."
So began a sequence of events that saw Ibrahim Diallo fired from his job, not by his manager but by a machine.
He has detailed his story in a blogpost which he hopes will serve as a warning to firms about relying too much on automation.
"Automation can be an asset to a company, but there needs to be a way for humans to take over if the machine makes a mistake," he writes.
The story of Mr Diallo's sacking by machine began when his entry pass to the Los Angeles skyscraper where his office was based failed to work, forcing him to rely on the security guard to allow him entry.
"As soon as I got to my floor, I went to see my manager to let her know. She promised to order me a new one right away."
Then he noticed that he was logged out of his work system and a colleague told Mr Diallo that the word "Inactive" was listed alongside his name.
His day got worse. After lunch - and a 10-minute wait for a co-worker to let him back into his office - he was told by his recruiter that she had received an email saying his contract was terminated. She promised to sort out the problem.
The next day he had been locked out of every single system "except my Linux machine" and then, after lunch, two people appeared at his desk. Mr Diallo was told that an email had been received telling them to escort him from the building.
His boss was confused but helpless as Mr Diallo recalls: "I was fired. There was nothing my manager could do about it. There was nothing the director could do about it. They stood powerless as I packed my stuff and left the building."
At the time, he was eight months into a three-year contract and over the next three weeks he was copied into emails about his case.
"I watched it be escalated to bigger and more powerful titles over and over, yet no-one could do anything about it. From time-to-time, they would attach a system email.
"It was soulless and written in red as it gave orders that dictated my fate. Disable this, disable that, revoke access here, revoke access there, escort out of premises, etc.
"The system was out for blood and I was its very first victim."
It took Mr Diallo's bosses three weeks to find out why he had been sacked. His firm was going through changes, both in terms of the systems it used and the people it employed.
His original manager had been recently laid off and sent to work from home for the rest of his time at the firm and in that period he had not renewed Mr Diallo's contract in the new system.
After that, machines took over - flagging him as an ex-employee.
"All the necessary orders are sent automatically and each order completion triggers another order. For example, when the order for disabling my key card is sent, there is no way of it to be re-enabled.
"Once it is disabled, an email is sent to security about recently dismissed employees. Scanning the key card is a red flag. The order to disable my Windows account is also sent. There is also one for my Jira account. And on and on."
Although Mr Diallo was allowed back to work, he had missed out on three weeks' worth of pay and been escorted from the building "like a thief". He had to explain his disappearance to others and found his co-workers became distant.
He decided to move to another job.
His story should serve as a cautionary tale about the human-machine relationship, thinks AI expert Dave Coplin.
"It's another example of a failure of human thinking where they allow it to be humans versus machines rather than humans plus machines," he said.
"One of the fundamental skills for all humans in an AI world is accountability - just because the algorithm says it's the answer, it doesn't mean it actually is."
yikes https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-can-parkour-now-so-theres-no-where-left-to-hide_us_5bc22e51e4b01a01d68b3178
10/13/2018 05:18 pm ET
By Andy McDonald
Boston Dynamics' Robot Can Parkour Now And Presumably Hunt Humans More Easily
The Massachusetts company's machine Atlas is scaring people with its agility.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjKoEva5bg
QuoteWith each passing month, it seems the robots get stronger, smarter and more agile.
Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts engineering company that continues to push the boundaries of how robots can move, once again wowed and frightened the internet with the latest update on its famous two-legged robot "Atlas."
In a 30-second video released Thursday titled "Parkour Atlas," the company shows their pride and joy hopping over a log and then leaping onto three ascending boxes, one after another alternating between its left and right foot. The smoothness by which Atlas climbs the structure is impressive and, as many human citizens of the internet point out, scary.
The question is why is Boston Dynamics doing this? Surely, they have guaranteed themselves a cushy position in the future government cabinet of our machine overlords.
Seriously, though, the company's bots have some exciting real-world applications ― hence why they test many of their machines outside. From heavy lifting in factories or warehouses to search and rescue operations to missions on the battlefield, these robots can potentially do things that humans can't or shouldn't do.
Boston Dynamics, which began as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also released a video Thursday showing their four-legged robot "Spot" successfully navigating around an obstacle-heavy Tokyo construction site.
This gives me the creeps..big time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wND9goxDVrY
QuoteAllow us to extend a warm welcome to any machines reading this. We're huge fans, and we're happy to help your transition to power (and ensure our own survival) in any way we can!
BEFORE YOU GO
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-can-parkour-now-so-theres-no-where-left-to-hide_us_5bc22e51e4b01a01d68b3178
edit.. ok i don't know why one you tube works and the others don't..sorry
Quote from: space otter on October 14, 2018, 03:14:50 AM
edit.. ok i don't know why one you tube works and the others don't..sorry
YouTube links must have only the "v=xxxxxxxx" part, the "time_continue=2&" was messing the link. :)
As for the topic of your post, I'm not worried, as we are only being shown their successes. There's a video of that back-flip that shows a couple of failed attempts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcbGRBPkrps
Also, we don't know if they are acting autonomously or being remotely controlled, like in this presentation that ended in a silly mistake. Now, who made the mistake, the man controlling the robot or the robot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxobtWAFh8o
Hey guys, I have thought about this a lot having been in IT and coding since the early days in Assembly and UNIX scripts and stuff.
I think the real 'dangers' of AI is not what you think. AI will not 'harm us' as a giant sentient hive mind. It will be in things that are 'unexpected consequences'.
For example things like getting talked into having nano-bot repair things inside your body which can be hacked like hacking a pacemaker to shock you (an example not exactly a real fear).
Another would be nano-bot swarms with facial recognition. Think about it. The swarm would have tiny amounts of some kind of 'splosive in them, a gram of something nasty, and then they'd be able to swarm up, blow a hole in a building and then after enough of them did that, look for a specific target based on facial recognition, and the land on his noggin' and then that's all she wrote. Even worse if there were 535 +1 of them, that's then end of the people in a certain city...being able to take out the entire gubmint in one unstoppable 'swarm' raid and no protection from it. These things would be the size of oh, IDK a big locust?
Hackers using AI or even the Evil Empire creating something like this (we need to convince people that doing this should NEVER be tried b/c it could be turned against you).
A sample Youtube is to be found called nano-bot swarms, but it's a fantasy video not a real TED talk.
Search on ted talk nanobot swarms
Title:
MICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS - AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WARNING !! (channel CS Consulting)
FWIW
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ai-can-generate-fake-faces-now-here%E2%80%99s-how-to-spot-them/ar-BBRxOxJ?li=BBnb7Kz
Dave Gershgorn 5 hrs ago
AI can generate fake faces now. Here's how to spot themQuoteEarlier this month, a research paper from Nvidia, maker of graphics processing units, showed that the company is able to generate photo-realistic images of people who never existed. It marked another step toward a world in which any media can be easily and believably generated from scratch, a looming crisis for truth online.
Fortunately, AI-generated faces bear some telltale signs. This week, computational artist Kyle McDonald published a guide on how to identify a fake. These tips probably won't be reliable forever, and they're certainly not applicable to every picture—some generated images are extraordinarily convincing. But every little bit of information helps.
The following pictures are screenshots grabbed from Nvidia's latest paper, which Quartz previously covered by imagining how these AI people might interact on Tinder.
Asymmetrical facial features or jewelry(https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBRxJyB.img?h=400&w=390&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=322&y=392)
© Provided by Atlantic Media, Inc.
QuoteThe picture above has a bunch of clues. One of the easiest is the big weird blob floating off the top right of the person's head. That kind of artifact or aberration is common in AI-generated imagery, consistent with Google's DeepDream experiments a few years ago.
But the image is also slightly asymmetrical, when you look around the person's ears. Not only is the hair fuzzy and strange on the right side, but the ear is missing an earring that's present on the left side. (Or you could say that the left ear has an earring not present on the right side, as an exercise in perspective.)
Algorithms have no common sense, and no rule that if an earring is present on one side it has to be present on the other, except maybe when generating faces of boy bands from the late 90s or people who wanted to be in boy bands in the late 90s. Because of this, the algorithms sometimes don't generate facial features or accessories as they should.
Teeth(https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBRxCJM.img?h=623&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=324&y=375)
© Provided by Atlantic Media, Inc.
QuoteAlgorithms also don't know the number or orientation of teeth, instead drawing on examples of teeth from all different angles. Sometimes the algorithm messes that up, leaving its creations with odd and mangled teeth.
(https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBRxOxw.img?h=400&w=397&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=322&y=378)
© Provided by Atlantic Media, Inc.
QuoteThis might be a little more difficult to spot than a missing or disfigured earring, but if you look closely at the above image, the pictured woman has a small, third middle tooth. There's also some weirdness around the ears, so it's definitely a fake.
Strange clothing or backgrounds© Provided by Atlantic Media, Inc.
QuotePatterns are sometimes a mystery for people-generating algorithms, which can lead to strange structures in the background of images, or strange clothing on the generated subject. McDonald says to especially watch out for text in the background of generated images, since it's almost always malformed.
While the subject of the image above looks stunningly like a human, it appears to be in some sort of geometric jade prison, or perhaps Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
Below, you can see this manifest in clothing. It just doesn't make any sense. There's also a strange artifact of an earring in the photo, and some of the subject's hair isn't actually attached to anything, which is also common, McDonald says.
Stay vigilant.
sorry about the size of the pic..i can't seem to make them smaller
thankyou so.
Well they ARE working hard on replacing women :P
This pretty little thing for example
(https://s.hdnux.com/photos/75/75/71/16244340/8/920x920.jpg)
Robot Brothels :P Already opened one in Toronto but they are meeting opposition in Houston
Construction of 'Robot brothel' in Houston must clear city hurdle
By Olivia P. Tallet Updated 9:59 pm CDT, Sunday, September 30, 2018
Basklash is led by a frumpy old fat English professor :P
::)
https://www.chron.com/houston/article/Construction-of-Robot-brothel-in-Houston-finds-13269079.php
just not tempting enough yet z,ill stick with the one i got.lol.
i kinda got use to menopause and smiles.
again i am glad to be old and retired..wonder what they do if you don't have any social media activity..?
probably think you're a bot..hahahahahahah
hey i'm a bot now.. 8)
vid at link...sorry can't seem to move to here
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/science/didnt-get-the-job-robots-may-not-have-liked-your-social-media-activity/vi-BBRAINP
The Wall Street Journal.
Didn't get the job? Robots may not have liked your social media activity
Duration: 04:44 12/30/2018
DeepSense, based in San Francisco and New Delhi, uses artificial intelligence to assess job candidates' personalities based on their social media accounts. WSJ's Jason Bellini tested the tool.
Quotehttps://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49004004
Elon Musk reveals brain-hacking plans
By Jane Wakefield
Technology reporter
7 hours ago
NeuraLink, a company set up by Elon Musk to explore ways to connect the human brain to a computer interface, has applied to US regulators to start trialling its device on humans.
The system has been tested on a monkey that was able to control a computer with its brain, according to Mr Musk.
The firm said it wanted to focus on patients with severe neurological conditions.
But ultimately Mr Musk envisions a future of "superhuman cognition".
Merging with AI
The device the firm has developed consists of a tiny probe containing more than 3,000 electrodes attached to flexible threads - thinner than a human hair - which can then monitor the activity of 1,000 neurons.
The advantage of this system, according to the firm, is that it would be able to target very specific areas of the brain, which would make it surgically safer. It would also be able to analyse recordings using machine learning, which would then work out what type of stimulation to give a patient.
NeuraLink did not explain how the system translated brain activity or how the device was able to stimulate brain cells.
"It's not like suddenly we will have this incredible neural lace and will take over people's brains," Mr Musk said during his presentation. "It will take a long time."
But he said, for those who choose it, the system would ultimately allow for "symbiosis with artificial intelligence".
Elon Musk creates Neuralink brain electrode firm
Previously Mr Musk has suggested that AI could destroy the human race.
"Even in a benign AI scenario, we will be left behind," he said.
"With a high bandwidth brain machine interface, we can go along for the ride and effectively have the option of merging with AI."
Connecting the brain to an interface would create a new layer of "superintelligence" in the human brain, he added, something people "already have via their phones".
Later, during a question and answer session, he revealed that the device NeuraLink is working on has been tested on monkeys, with the animal able to control a computer with its brain, according to Mr Musk.
Now the firm is putting together a submission to start human testing, which will need to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Mr Musk is also looking to recruit more scientists to the firm, which currently has about 100 employees.
NeuraLink released a paper to coincide with the announcement, but it has not been peer-reviewed, something that is generally seen as a crucial part of any new scientific breakthrough.
Krittika D'Silva, an AI researcher at the Frontier Development Lab, a partnership with Nasa attended the event, and said: "The technology described by NeuraLink is exciting because it is significantly less invasive than prior work in this field.
"The plans they describe will require many years of work to deal with technical and ethical challenges, but the technology could be a big step in working to alleviate certain serious medical conditions like epilepsy and Parkinson's."
The Kording Lab Twitter account, for scientists from the University of Pennsylvania's neuroscience department, tweeted that there was "nothing revolutionary but a range of really creative ideas" which seemed to suggest the firm was "on a great track".
Skip Twitter post by @KordingLab
KordingLab
@KordingLab
So, it looks like @elonmusk @neuralink have quickly caught up with the incumbents (e.g. blackrock). There is nothing revolutionary but a range of really creative ideas (love the guide tube like needle idea). I need to see more data but they seem to be on a great track. https://twitter.com/aryelipman/status/1151354908563529728 ...
Arye Lipman
@aryelipman
... and here's the @neuralink white paper #neuralink https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6204648-Neuralink-White-Paper.html ...
56
1:09 AM - Jul 17, 2019
Twitter Ads info and privacy
16 people are talking about this
Report
End of Twitter post by @KordingLab
Andrew Hires. assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Southern California, tweeted that the company had "pushed forward" the best of existing lab technology.
Skip Twitter post by @AndrewHires
Andrew Hires
@AndrewHires
Replying to @AndrewHires and 2 others
Summary: Neuralink picked the best of existing lab technology and pushed it forward in a number of important dimensions, and most impressively has an integrated implantable product that goes beyond the current state of the art.
Q&A time: My Q, Can we buy it for mice?
131
1:10 AM - Jul 17, 2019
Twitter Ads info and privacy
47 people are talking about this
Report
End of Twitter post by @AndrewHires
NeuraLink is not the only firm building neural interfaces. Kernel, set up by tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, is attempting similar things to "radically improve and expand human cognition".
Many of Mr Musk's ventures push at the boundaries of what is currently possible. Space X is exploring missions to Mars, while his Boring Company is looking to build tunnels underneath Los Angeles, and his Hyperloop project aims to reinvent travel.
View comments417
a friend sent me this
Watch Elon Musk's Neuralink presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA77zsJ31nA
and now...baseball, man..who woulda thunk it..?Quotehttps://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/robot-umpires-atlantic-league-is-testing-ground-for-mlbs-future/ar-AAG15Dp?li=BBnb7Kz
short vid at link
USA TODAY SPORTS
Robot umpires: Atlantic League is testing ground for MLB's future
Gabe Lacques 1 hr ago
WALDORF, Md. – In its quest for a more efficient, error-free and hopefully optimized game experience, Major League Baseball's transformation of the Atlantic League from the game's last-chance motel into its test lab has largely been a rousing success.
An automated strike zone that converts the home-plate umpire from arbiter to mere messenger is right far more often than it is wrong. A ban on mound visits and relief specialists undeniably speeds the game's pace.
And rules changes aimed to encourage balls in play and runners in motion – Thou shalt not shift defensively, but you may "steal" first base – gives hitters options beyond launching balls over a vexing alignment of fielders.
Yet as its experiment with a "robotic" strike zone and other nuances enters its second month, the formal partnership between MLB and the Atlantic League illustrates the upsides and consequences of optimization.
Umpire-player conflicts may be few. That doesn't mean players, managers and umpires don't feel somewhat conflicted about their roles as pioneers when the outcome may eventually marginalize their respective crafts.
"I think it's really cool to be around this," says Kent Blackstone, the shortstop for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, "because if they can get it right, I see this being in Major League Baseball in three to five years.
"For us to be the first ones to use it, if I want to get into the operations of baseball, I can say I was there during all this. I try to shift it to the positive."
ATLANTIC LEAGUE RULES:Stealing first base and all the other MLB tests
Spend an August day in the Atlantic League, and you get the overwhelming sense it's only a matter of when, not if, the radical experiments bubble up to the big leagues. When MLB officials descended on the Blue Crabs' training camp in Lakeland, Florida, to discuss this most unusual season to come, momentum was palpable.
"There's a lot of people who say, 'This will never be passed at the major league level,' " says Stan Cliburn, the Blue Crabs' 62-year-old manager. "Well, people better look back and see that baseball's about change, life's about change.
"Is it the direction Major League Baseball is going? They're certainly taking a hard look at it."
That will certainly delight fans who chafe at every blown ball-strike call, screen-shotting the injustice in a bid for social media glory. Yet the "robot ump" path from the sun-baked fields of independent ball to the big leagues will have its detours.
The greater dilemma might revolve around what's lost on the way.
'You have to adapt'
Creature comforts in the Atlantic League – with franchises in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina and suburban Houston – are few. A sack of Egg McMuffins might constitute the morning clubhouse spread, and the Blue Crabs' unofficial motto – "If you don't like it, play better" – reflects the players' collective hope to latch on with an MLB-affiliated club.
An ominous device affixed to the stadium façade, however, goes a long way toward making them feel like big-leaguers.
TrackMan is, for now, the device that powers MLB's Statcast, producing a trove of statistics that are increasingly mainstream: exit velocity, launch angle, pitch movement, sprint speed and so on. Without the MLB partnership, Atlantic League clubs would not have that data and, several players note, it will now be easily accessible for major league organizations that might have an interest in signing them.
TrackMan also provides the brainpower behind the automated ball-strike system, peering down on home plate. Though inanimate, it nonetheless pops up in conversations in manners like, "Well, TrackMan missed that one," or, "I think the TrackMan went out for a bit."
And TrackMan certainly has its quirks. For one, do not lie to TrackMan.
Blackstone found this out the hard way. Since he has not played affiliated ball, the 25-year-old shortstop had no previous data – such as height or batting stance – in the TrackMan system. Like many athletes of a certain height, Blackstone gifted himself an extra inch in submitting his player information, because who wouldn't prefer a 6-foot shortstop over a 5-11 shortstop?
Trouble was, the generous height was entered in the system to establish his strike zone. And so in his first few games with the auto strike zone, several very high strikes were called against him.
"I always say I'm 6 foot," says Blackstone. "But that's over, man."
Like anyone associated with baseball, TrackMan prefers sunny skies.
A recent Blue Crabs game at High Point (North Carolina) was delayed by rain and lightning, and when it resumed, Cliburn insists the conditions affected the strike zone. "The game ended," he says, "on a strike that was nowhere close to being a strike. And I think the weather had something to do with it."
And therein lie the bugs. While the strike zone is intended to be uniform, in any stadium, members of the Blue Crabs and Long Island Ducks pointed out parks with obvious variances. High Point likes the high strike. Lancaster (Pennsylvania) was missing the low strike, the true pitcher's pitch.
Overall, the system received high marks for its lateral work, nailing pitches on either edge of the plate. Vertically? Not so much.
"If a ball hits that bottom of the box on TrackMan, it's a strike. But that ball might hit the ground. To me, that doesn't look good," says Blue Crabs right-hander Daryl Thompson, a 2003 draftee of the Montreal Expos. "I feel like they need to tweak it a little bit more to get it to adjust to every hitter that gets in the box. If we can't do that, it's not going to be any use."
Says Blackstone: "There have been times where the ball hits the ground and they're calling it a strike. Textbook-wise, it might be a strike. We all would like to not get hosed on a strike three on a ball at our ankles. But you have to adapt."
Or develop a foolproof system.
TrackMan is just one of many pitch tracking systems available, though many of the best are on-field devices and not suitable for live game action. Multiple reports indicate MLB will be shifting from TrackMan to the Hawk-Eye tracking system – best known for its work policing tennis serves – for Statcast and other purposes in 2020.
"There were a couple games where TrackMan malfunctioned," says Thompson. "In the middle of the at-bat, the umpire would be like, 'Hey Stan, this one's going to be on me. TrackMan's broke right now.' That right there to me says this isn't baseball if we're going to be doing that."
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred indicated last month that automated ball-strike systems would get an extended look in affiliated minor league ball before any serious consideration was given toward using them in the majors. "We kind of feel it's incumbent to figure out whether we could make it work," he said, "and that's what we are doing."
And that might put another baseball fixture – the home-plate umpire – on the clock.
Just one four-letter word
After MLB instituted significant replay review for the 2014 season, it was impossible not to notice how much quieter it was on the field, with little for managers to argue. It's even quieter for Atlantic League umps, who now hear only one-four letter word when they work the plate.
Ball.
The call comes straight from the automated ball-strike system to their earpiece, delivered in the same monotone, be it off the plate or a strike.
"You hear the pop," says Atlantic League ump Jerry Martinez of the roughly two seconds it takes for pitch litigation. "And then you hear the voice. Strike, or ball.
"And then you have to render your mechanic. If it's a strike, you call it a strike."
Martinez's crew mate, Scott Hart, was recently summoned to work games in the Class AA Eastern League, where he was besieged with questions from fellow umpires perhaps wondering where their next meal might come from.
"Before, it was kind of a mental battle," says Hart. "You're focused. The catcher's trying to get a pitch from you. You're reading the catch. That's taken that out the window."
But the auto-ump can't totally replace the human element – unless it somehow develops a sense of humor.
"Every once in a while," Martinez says of the voice in his earpiece, "it will tell you, 'Hey, clean the plate.' "
Really?
"Nah, I'm only kidding."
Backstop blues
So let's tally the casualties of baseball's enacted and proposed rule changes:
Instant replay killed most of the game's arguments. An automatic strike zone would marginalize the home-plate umpire. A three-batter minimum for relievers – in place in the Atlantic League and slated for enactment in the 2020 MLB season – would render the lefty relief specialist virtually extinct.
And in an automated era of balls and strikes, the catcher would be rendered almost irrelevant.
The most important position on the field – a virtual breeding ground for future major league managers – would be reduced to the mere act of catching the ball, destroying the art of pitch-framing at a time advanced metrics have quantified the skill better than ever.
Mike Falsetti is training the next generation of receivers how to receive. Now, he's not sure what to think.
The 28-year-old Blue Crabs catcher is no Crash Davis – he has six home runs and a .188 average in five years of independent ball – but his measured vibe and cerebral nature make him a dead ringer for any major league backup catcher.
In the offseason, he trains catchers at a Chicago-area facility and will even meet up with pupils on the road in the Atlantic League. And every pitch whose ball-strike fate is determined before it meets his glove feels like another dig at his livelihood.
"The changes it makes to the position are drastic," he says. "I've always thought every single pitch that's received, the catcher has to earn the strike call. TrackMan rewards the lazy catcher, the bad receiver, and devalues the good receivers, and that's a big part of the game."
No more, at least not here.
Falsetti says the catcher-ump relationship – one of baseball's deepest connections – remains, but it's more a commiseration of their shared fate, and an occasional ask of whether the pitch would have been a strike if the ump had an actual say in the matter.
"I know they just want to get it right," says Falsetti. "And it has been right, for the most part. It's going to take a lot for the (TrackMan zone) to get to the big leagues. And I just hope that process sheds light on just how important that good-receiving catcher is.
"There's a lot that goes into every single pitch: It's the hitter's mind-set, it's the bickering between teams, it's a lot. And you lose a feel for the game."
It will be up to Manfred, or perhaps his successor, and the players' association to determine that cost. In the meantime, the self-proclaimed guinea pigs of the Atlantic League will play on, realizing it's futile to rail against agents of change, automated or human.
"You can't yell at that machine up there," says Cliburn. "He's not gonna listen."
Follow Gabe Lacques on Twitter: @GabeLacques
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Robot umpires: Atlantic League is testing ground for MLB's future
Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article.
I suppose this is the best place for this:
"AI Used For Social Engineering. Fraudsters Mimic CEO's Voice in Unusual Cybercrime Case | WSJ"
QuoteCatherine Stupp at the Wall Street Journal reported (https://www.wsj.com/articles/fraudsters-use-ai-to-mimic-ceos-voice-in-unusual-cybercrime-case-11567157402) on something we have predicted (https://blog.knowbe4.com/live-webinar-2019-crystal-ball-what-security-experts-worry-about-for-2019) would happen in this blog. The article started out with:
"Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cybercrime experts described as an unusual case of artificial intelligence being used in hacking.
"The CEO of a U.K.-based energy firm thought he was speaking on the phone with his boss, the chief executive of the firm's German parent company, who asked him to send the funds to a Hungarian supplier. The caller said the request was urgent, directing the executive to pay within an hour, according to the company's insurance firm, Euler Hermes Group SA. Euler Hermes declined to name the victim companies.
Now scammers are getting into AI too, so next time you get a phone call you better confirm its authenticity. it could be AI pretending to be your spouse telling you to buy pizza . ;)
Source (https://blog.knowbe4.com/ai-used-for-social-engineering.-fraudsters-mimic-ceos-voice-in-unusual-cybercrime-case-wsj)
Quote from: ArMaP on September 04, 2019, 01:51:50 AM
I suppose this is the best place for this:
"AI Used For Social Engineering. Fraudsters Mimic CEO's Voice in Unusual Cybercrime Case | WSJ"
Now scammers are getting into AI too, so next time you get a phone call you better confirm its authenticity. it could be AI pretending to be your spouse telling you to buy pizza . ;)
Source (https://blog.knowbe4.com/ai-used-for-social-engineering.-fraudsters-mimic-ceos-voice-in-unusual-cybercrime-case-wsj)
It just isn't looking good, is it? Before long, unless you are in physical contact, face to face, how are you going to be able to tell who or what you are talking to?
::) ::) ::)
https://youtu.be/LRkqcPXNL3E