Sci-Fi literature discussion

[Nuclear]

That is a load of rubbish. You can't just tell a computer to identify a problem you have to tell it the problem or create a lot of variables that make it identify a single problem.

Computers don't 'guess'.

In short yes you do need to make a code for every problem that exists.

So you're saying that making a learning computer is impossible? What do you base this load of rubbish on? For the record, humans are such computers.

 

[Footman16]

No what I'm saying is that computers don't guess to create a learning computer you need to tell it how it exactly how to identify things in the first place and give it a lot of variables etc on how to behave when certain conditions are met. Learning computers of any notable scale don't exist right now.

Yes I know I'm using warcraft trigger editor terms but the usage is the same.

It's not impossible just not today.

 

[Nuclear]

Yeah this is a sci-fi thread, we're speculating about the future.

 

[Xonok]

I just noticed while translating a story(I'm a writer btw), that either estonian is more complicated or I just don't know english as well as I know estonian.
Some stuff is nigh untranslatable.

 

[Tonex]

You guys ever hear of a conecept called "machine learning"?

 

[Rui]

I just noticed while translating a story(I'm a writer btw), that either estonian is more complicated or I just don't know english as well as I know estonian.
Some stuff is nigh untranslatable.

You've just got to focus on making sure you transmit the exact same idea, words matter little unless the author had a very good reason to use those words exactly.

 

[Xonok]

You've just got to focus on making sure you transmit the exact same idea, words matter little unless the author had a very good reason to use those words exactly.

Yeah, that's exactly where the problem comes from. This story, unlike my others, is written in a way that makes the meaning much harder to translate. Mainly because the characters use puns and simplifying slang.

 

[The Wizard]

Watched Lynch's "Dune". Well, I want to read the fucking book just now!

 

[Nuclear]

Google team: Self-teaching computer recognizes cats

Old news, but I remembered that since we discussed self learning AIs.

 

[Tonex]

Yeah that was pretty cool

 

[The Wizard]

Reviving the thread with posting a great book named "The Final Circle of Paradise" by Strugatskys. And this is what I recommend to just everyone ITT. It is a bit dystopian, and has very, very urgent problems in it. Social book that reflects perfectly what's happening to modern society though it's been written about half a century ago. So let's stop talking and start reading (re-reading for me).

 

[Footman16]

Some of the warhammer 40k books are good a bit whacky but good all the same with a very rich backstory and universe. I personally collect the models and stuff and read the books.