Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Interesting. Ask Elon Musk what scares him about AI. Watch the Joe Rogan interview. Be careful what you wish for. AI knows you better than you know yourself. Don’t bother wondering if it’s true. It’s true.
https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI (The Joe Rogan podcast with Elon Musk)
Consider this: What if a Myers-Briggs test was run on everyone who applied for a permit to buy a gun or a concealed carry permit? Of course, that violates constitutional rights here in the United States to own a gun because it’s too subjective.
What if a Myers-Briggs test was run on everyone who applied for a job, or a lease, or a voters certificate, or the right to have a child...or shop at Walmart? The list goes on. It’s endless.
Elon runs Neuralink. It’s a fascinating idea. What if it were reversed and piped your thoughts into a computer?
Bryan Johnson is the co-founder of Braintree, purchased by PayPal, and creator of Kernal, a startup whose goal is to enhance human cognition. https://kernel.co/
“We know if we put a chip in the brain and release electrical signals, that we can ameliorate symptoms of Parkinson's,” Johnson told The Verge in an interview late last year. (Johnson also confirmed Musk’s involvement with Neuralink.) “This has been done for spinal cord pain, obesity, anorexia… what hasn’t been done is the reading and writing of neural code.” Johnson says Kernel’s goal is to “work with the brain the same way we work with other complex biological systems like biology and genetics.” (from The Verge)
What if your answer was recorded every time the check out clerk at the grocery store asked you whether you prefer paper or plastic?
“Are you a member? Type in your member number for a discount.”
“Click this link to see your past purchases.”
“Add item to your public wish list.”
“Click this link to see your browsing history.”
Elon’s answer to the AI question in the Rogan interview is regulation. Watch the interview. It was a costly interview:
Larry Ellison was interviewed by Charlie Rose: 4:30 “The great thing is we live in a democracy.”
https://codetown.com/video/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-talks-google-ap...
Think about that when you decide whether it’s worth your time to vote or run for office.
https://www.apnews.com/bc2f19097a4c4fffaa00de6770b8a60d
https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/27/15077864/elon-musk-neuralink-bra...
http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/22/14631122/kernel-neuroscience-brya...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_test
https://www.themuse.com/advice/14-free-personality-tests-thatll-hel...
Tags:
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
Check out the Codetown Jobs group.
Sasha Rosenbaum discusses the evolution from shipping products to running services, and what she learned while trying different approaches.
By Sasha RosenbaumDevelopers and designers can work together to share knowledge and experience when working on creating accessible applications. Accessibility issues can be treated as any other bug, something that needs to be solved first. Accessibility should be embraced as something very serious and important to society, and approached as a business opportunity.
By Ben LindersGrafana Labs has introduced "Sift," a feature for Grafana Cloud designed to enhance incident response management (IRM) by automating system checks and expediting issue resolution. Sift automates various aspects of incident investigation. Sift provides valuable insights into potential issues within Kubernetes environments, helping engineers focus on resolving incidents.
By Matt SaundersAWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances (mac2-m2pro.metal) as a virtual Mac offering on its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).
By Steef-Jan WiggersUser stories are meant to be a placeholder for a conversation. This article dives into the differences between user stories and tickets, where stories came from and how recent trends are moving us away from conversations. It shows the impact this is having on product development and easy ways to improve collaboration through conversation and writing better stories.
By Kimberly Hendrick
© 2023 Created by Michael Levin.
Powered by