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“On a Formal Model of Safe and Scalable Self-Driving Cars”(arxiv.org)
1 points by bem94 9y ago|0 comments
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Best CPUs for Workstations: 2017(anandtech.com)
270 points by bem94 9y ago|167 comments
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Protest Activity Detection and Perceived Violence Estimation from Social Media(arxiv.org)
1 points by bem94 9y ago|0 comments
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by bem94 9y ago
I couldn't agree more. Engineers are often so far (physically and metaphorically) from the actual impact of what they work on, it can be really easy to miss the damage it does. People who work for Facebook must have to work very hard t
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Facebook’s war on free will(theguardian.com)
44 points by bem94 9y ago|9 comments
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by bem94 9y ago
I can't wait for the people building and deploying AI / Machine Learning tools on a large scale to become aware of the broad societal implications of what they are helping to do. Or, if they are, impress that knowledge loudly and
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by bem94 9y ago
I read the guardian frequently and long since learned to ignore the clickbait headlines you point out. Remember that columnists don't write their own headlines. The content of an article is usually more nuanced and thought out that the
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by bem94 9y ago
I think a lot of the "oh my gosh nationalisation is such an awful idea" / "not in my free society" comments are missing the point. I too believe nationalisation is a bad idea in this case , but given the enormous r
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Speaking Out Against Socially Destructive Technologies, Norbert Wiener on Ethics(ieeessit.org)
1 points by bem94 9y ago|0 comments
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by bem94 9y ago
I don't understand why so many discussions about this in the context of engineering / software jump to the idea that diversity is just have 50:50 of characteristic X and characteristic Y. Or why everyone makes assertions about wha
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by bem94 9y ago
I guess that if there was a special "Open backdoor" instruction which was undocumented, then yes I guess it could find it. Backdoors tend to be separate systems which pry into something larger though (like the intel managment engi
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by bem94 9y ago
>> "several million" undocumented instructions.. is that right? Bear in mind that doesnt really mean that there are several million operations / opcode mnemonics which are undocumented but each distinct instructions. It
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Facebook calls for a more people-centric security industry(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by bem94 9y ago|1 comments
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by bem94 9y ago
And people like that are why we can't have nice things. I'm not saying that education / provoking thought will stop everyone doing something (else) monstrously stupid with AI. Just that we should be doing that educating &#x2F
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by bem94 9y ago
Turning what I think you are saying on its head: There is a 0.001% chance of something bad happening, so there is no point in the other 99.999% changing their behaviour in order to stop that bad thing happening. I don't think that foll
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by bem94 9y ago
+1 for Weapons of Math Destruction.
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by bem94 9y ago
>> I think it would be hard to teach a uniform view of decency Ofcourse, but we don't avoid studying moral philosophy because we can't find a uniform model. Nor does not being able to find a uniform model mean that there are
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by bem94 9y ago
I'm not saying teach people some universal moral code, or suggesting we can accurately encode a set of appropriate morals into an AI. Just that people stop and think if what they are doing is appropriate. It seems silly to take problem
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by bem94 9y ago
Depending on ones level of idealism, the best defense against malicious AI is actually educating programmers / hackers / engineers on the implications of their work and to have a sense of decency & foresight. It baffles me tha
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by bem94 9y ago
They aren't doing this as a money making exercise. It's a way for them to get the MIPS architecture out in the open and have the next generation of engineers get familiar with it. I think the licensing is just a way for them to pr
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by bem94 9y ago
True. But from my own experience I get the impression most engineers are ignorant in this regard rather than malicious. Though I'm happy (or not..) to see evidence to the contrary. We all enable it, I'm not sure the awareness of t
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by bem94 9y ago
I got the impression it was more to do with gaining access to the various pieces of information which make up your online (and offline) reputation, out of their original context. That lack of context then means the otherwise benign info sud
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by bem94 9y ago
> "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair One of my favourite quotes too, but I refuse to accept it as law. If people really do work at plac
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by bem94 9y ago
> It's like any other thing in capitalism. You'll have a contingent of folk that won't do the work, based on ethical reasons, and you have folk that will, for financial reasons. That is true, but going on my peers (especia
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by bem94 9y ago
I really feel that engineers need to wake up to this kind of thing. I'm not saying we should stop (although that's what might happen), just that we pause and consider what this is doing to the world. It is the undercurrent for so
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Report: Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life(crackedlabs.org)
5 points by bem94 9y ago|0 comments
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I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads(theguardian.com)
21 points by bem94 9y ago|1 comments
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by bem94 9y ago
Cool project! I see lots of toy RISC CPUs but rarely anything CISCy. This sort of thing is great as a house-keeping core for bigger RTL designs, especially as it is synthesis-able. Are you planning to extend the ISA at all?
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Regulate This Time to subject algorithms to our laws(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by bem94 9y ago|0 comments
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Teach undergrads ethics to ensure future AI is safe(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by bem94 10y ago|0 comments

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