• The tech lay-offs are miniscule compared to H1-B visas

    From gandikotam@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 21 16:04:22 2023
    The US media is making a huge hullabaloo about the tech lay-offs. Most of the axed are making millions as salaries. According to one estimate 190k jobs were lost since last year in the tech sector. This is less than 3 years of H1B work visas issued. When
    you can replace a million dollar dream-worker with a scantly paid foreign worker, why not try that route?

    Then there is the hoopla about AI that has been around since the days of Alan Turing. What they mean by AI is the indexing and retrieval of text documents which is hard-core computer science. Voice recognition is tangentially AI. But the buzz-word AI
    turns heads and fetches funding.

    It is interesting to note that two of the tech giants are managed by Indian-Americans. Their standard refrain is "We take the responsibility" like good generals. What it translates to is anybody's guess. Besides it shows that Indians, even if they are
    products of IIT's and IIM's, are not inherently superior to their American counterparts. The difference is a MIT graduate strives to build better technology by working in the trenches and the IIT/IIM graduate thinks he can manage him better than anyone
    else.

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  • From Madhu@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 08:56:38 2023
    * gandikotam <bce0cc33-a58d-400c-9f8f-5561be9608d4n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sat, 21 Jan 2023 16:04:22 -0800 (PST):

    The US media is making a huge hullabaloo about the tech lay-offs. Most
    of the axed are making millions as salaries. According to one estimate
    190k jobs were lost since last year in the tech sector. This is less
    than 3 years of H1B work visas issued. When you can replace a million
    dollar dream-worker with a scantly paid foreign worker, why not try
    that route?

    Arbitration on H1-B wage labour HR is the spiritual successor of the
    lucrative slave trade operation, and the same supevisory spirits are in operation. The jobs themselves are irrelevant as the game is
    essentially derivatives

    Then there is the hoopla about AI that has been around since the days
    of Alan Turing. What they mean by AI is the indexing and retrieval of
    text documents which is hard-core computer science.

    It is more sinister than that. It presents a way to implement a model
    of behaviour (though the story is "its about learning models") and
    enforce the model on the population, (through a story of self-validation outliers can be killed off).

    Voice recognition is tangentially AI. But the buzz-word AI turns heads
    and fetches funding.

    Endtimes money printed out of the wazoo, and traded on the futures of
    the souls which are contractually delivered to satan into the lake of
    fire

    It is interesting to note that two of the tech giants are managed by Indian-Americans. Their standard refrain is "We take the
    responsibility" like good generals. What it translates to is anybody's
    guess.

    When I was starting a career I used to lament that indians could never
    make it to the top, and I am now made a liar. However it is appropriate
    that these public facing ceo- idols are raised up because it is the
    people of their nations who are the product (delivered to satan to end
    up in the lake of fire)

    Besides it shows that Indians, even if they are products of IIT's and
    IIM's, are not inherently superior to their American counterparts. The difference is a MIT graduate strives to build better technology by
    working in the trenches and the IIT/IIM graduate thinks he can manage
    him better than anyone else.

    The caste of indians of born managers, they have power over the karma of
    the souls they manage who are constained to be subservient, the end is
    of course to deliver the souls to satan to be end up with him in the
    lake of fire)

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  • From gandikotam@21:1/5 to Madhu on Sun Jan 22 11:03:40 2023
    On Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 7:26:29 PM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <bce0cc33-a58d-400c-9f8f-5561be9608d4n @googlegroups.com> : Wrote on Sat, 21 Jan 2023 16:04:22 -0800 (PST):
    The US media is making a huge hullabaloo about the tech lay-offs. Most
    of the axed are making millions as salaries. According to one estimate
    190k jobs were lost since last year in the tech sector. This is less
    than 3 years of H1B work visas issued. When you can replace a million dollar dream-worker with a scantly paid foreign worker, why not try
    that route?
    Arbitration on H1-B wage labour HR is the spiritual successor of the lucrative slave trade operation, and the same supevisory spirits are in operation. The jobs themselves are irrelevant as the game is
    essentially derivatives

    I interpret "derivatives" as:
    Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth" praised the H1B system claiming
    for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs would be created for the benefit of
    non-visa workers who do the menial jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.

    Then there is the hoopla about AI that has been around since the days
    of Alan Turing. What they mean by AI is the indexing and retrieval of
    text documents which is hard-core computer science.
    It is more sinister than that. It presents a way to implement a model
    of behaviour (though the story is "its about learning models") and
    enforce the model on the population, (through a story of self-validation outliers can be killed off).

    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect to it.
    The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build any models.

    Voice recognition is tangentially AI. But the buzz-word AI turns heads
    and fetches funding.
    Endtimes money printed out of the wazoo, and traded on the futures of
    the souls which are contractually delivered to satan into the lake of
    fire
    It is interesting to note that two of the tech giants are managed by Indian-Americans. Their standard refrain is "We take the
    responsibility" like good generals. What it translates to is anybody's guess.
    When I was starting a career I used to lament that indians could never
    make it to the top, and I am now made a liar. However it is appropriate
    that these public facing ceo- idols are raised up because it is the
    people of their nations who are the product (delivered to satan to end
    up in the lake of fire)

    Yes last century there used to fewer Indians in the managerial positions.
    Now they are in left, right and center. Even senators and congresspersons.
    Not many Americans want to manage the economy that is saddled with $31T deficit. Only fools go where the wise fear to step in.

    Besides it shows that Indians, even if they are products of IIT's and IIM's, are not inherently superior to their American counterparts. The difference is a MIT graduate strives to build better technology by
    working in the trenches and the IIT/IIM graduate thinks he can manage
    him better than anyone else.
    The caste of indians of born managers, they have power over the karma of
    the souls they manage who are constained to be subservient, the end is
    of course to deliver the souls to satan to be end up with him in the
    lake of fire)

    They are the same players as in India. Patels, Reddy's, Kamma's, etc.

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  • From Madhu@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 20:29:03 2023
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.

    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)


    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.

    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.

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  • From gandikotam@21:1/5 to Madhu on Tue Jan 24 19:05:08 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> : Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.

    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.

    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say. NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern. One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.

    Regards

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  • From Arindam Banerjee@21:1/5 to gandikotam on Wed Jan 25 03:12:48 2023
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> : Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth" praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model, the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern. One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.

    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    Regards

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  • From gandikotam@21:1/5 to Arindam Banerjee on Wed Jan 25 16:40:21 2023
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> : Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth" praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model, the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern. One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.

    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.


    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of
    Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in
    the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules. Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for
    voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than
    NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge
    base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.

    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car
    does some accident, whom to blame, etc.? There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done
    with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech
    company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken
    away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.

    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

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  • From Arindam Banerjee@21:1/5 to gandikotam on Fri Jan 27 06:44:28 2023
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth" praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of
    Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in
    the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules.

    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.


    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for
    voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than
    NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.

    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.

    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car
    does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?

    The insurance companies will sort that out.

    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.

    Or doctors for that matter.

    These days home work assignments of students are being done
    with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech
    company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken
    away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.

    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.
    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space. Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down. People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you. Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

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  • From gandikotam@21:1/5 to Arindam Banerjee on Sat Jan 28 16:33:18 2023
    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:44:31 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth" praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box
    input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of
    Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in
    the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules.
    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.
    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for
    voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.
    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.


    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car
    does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?
    The insurance companies will sort that out.

    They can't bring back casualties of traffic accidents caused by AI.

    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    Or doctors for that matter.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done
    with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech
    company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken
    away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.

    Arindam:
    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.

    Well said. No AI can match the creativity of humans that seems to be endless. Whatever Star Trek TV series envisioned, we are seeing today and will continue to
    see in the future. Some people claim the purpose of technology is to
    free up humans so they can dream and envision a future that is hopefully
    more pleasant.

    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space.
    Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down.

    There are some who believe ET's gave electronics to humans that has revolutionized
    our lives. AI, after all, is based on human thinking. So there is so much it can do.

    People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you. Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

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  • From Arindam Banerjee@21:1/5 to gandikotam on Sat Jan 28 18:00:10 2023
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 06:03:21 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:44:31 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box
    input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called
    couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in
    the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules.
    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.
    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice
    recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for
    voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge
    base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.
    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.


    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car
    does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?
    The insurance companies will sort that out.
    They can't bring back casualties of traffic accidents caused by AI.
    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    Or doctors for that matter.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done
    with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech
    company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken
    away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.
    Arindam:
    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.
    Well said. No AI can match the creativity of humans that seems to be endless. Whatever Star Trek TV series envisioned, we are seeing today and will continue to
    see in the future. Some people claim the purpose of technology is to
    free up humans so they can dream and envision a future that is hopefully
    more pleasant.
    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space.
    Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down.
    There are some who believe ET's gave electronics to humans that has revolutionized
    our lives. AI, after all, is based on human thinking. So there is so much it can do.

    Of course. It is an important machine to be respected but not worshipped as superior.

    People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you.
    Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gandikotam@21:1/5 to Arindam Banerjee on Tue Jan 31 12:38:04 2023
    On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 6:00:13 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 06:03:21 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:44:31 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box
    input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called
    couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in
    the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules.
    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.
    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice
    recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for
    voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge
    base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.
    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.


    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car
    does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?
    The insurance companies will sort that out.
    They can't bring back casualties of traffic accidents caused by AI.
    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    Or doctors for that matter.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done
    with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken
    away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.
    Arindam:
    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.
    Well said. No AI can match the creativity of humans that seems to be endless.
    Whatever Star Trek TV series envisioned, we are seeing today and will continue to
    see in the future. Some people claim the purpose of technology is to
    free up humans so they can dream and envision a future that is hopefully more pleasant.
    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space.
    Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down.
    There are some who believe ET's gave electronics to humans that has revolutionized
    our lives. AI, after all, is based on human thinking. So there is so much it can do.

    Arindam
    Of course. It is an important machine to be respected but not worshipped as superior.

    AI is perfect example of GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) as AI bots require rules or
    training data in gazillions to be accurate. In recent news, I read that chatGPT was able to calculate mortgage payments given the inputs of price, interest rate, etc.
    This is hardly an AI thing as there are multiple mortgage calculators in the net
    that don't claim to be AI. Then there are some who think sentence completion in the search box is done better by AI. I can see that Google is doing the same, even though it misses some. I surmise the convenience of one-stop-shop, which is currently
    Google , will lure the people to chatGPT. If they make it a subscription service,
    then I am out.


    People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you.
    Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Arindam Banerjee@21:1/5 to gandikotam on Tue Jan 31 20:48:13 2023
    On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 02:08:08 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 6:00:13 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 06:03:21 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:44:31 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box
    input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called
    couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules.
    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.
    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice
    recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for
    voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than
    NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge
    base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.
    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.


    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car
    does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?
    The insurance companies will sort that out.
    They can't bring back casualties of traffic accidents caused by AI.
    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    Or doctors for that matter.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done
    with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken
    away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.
    Arindam:
    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.
    Well said. No AI can match the creativity of humans that seems to be endless.
    Whatever Star Trek TV series envisioned, we are seeing today and will continue to
    see in the future. Some people claim the purpose of technology is to
    free up humans so they can dream and envision a future that is hopefully more pleasant.
    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space.
    Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down.
    There are some who believe ET's gave electronics to humans that has revolutionized
    our lives. AI, after all, is based on human thinking. So there is so much it can do.
    Arindam
    Of course. It is an important machine to be respected but not worshipped as superior.
    AI is perfect example of GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) as AI bots require rules or
    training data in gazillions to be accurate. In recent news, I read that chatGPT
    was able to calculate mortgage payments given the inputs of price, interest rate, etc.
    This is hardly an AI thing as there are multiple mortgage calculators in the net
    that don't claim to be AI. Then there are some who think sentence completion in
    the search box is done better by AI. I can see that Google is doing the same, even though it misses some. I surmise the convenience of one-stop-shop, which is currently
    Google , will lure the people to chatGPT. If they make it a subscription service,
    then I am out.

    Really nothing intelligent about any such AI, if by intelligence we include originality and relevance.
    They collect stuff based on rules and present them for lazy people and idiots. Problem is that there are too many rich idiots.

    People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you.
    Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gandikotam@21:1/5 to Arindam Banerjee on Wed Feb 1 13:27:48 2023
    On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 8:48:16 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 02:08:08 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 6:00:13 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 06:03:21 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:44:31 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box
    input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called
    couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems, I believe, that use if-then-else rules.
    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.
    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice
    recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than
    NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge
    base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.
    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.


    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car
    does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?
    The insurance companies will sort that out.
    They can't bring back casualties of traffic accidents caused by AI.
    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    Or doctors for that matter.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done
    with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.
    Arindam:
    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.
    Well said. No AI can match the creativity of humans that seems to be endless.
    Whatever Star Trek TV series envisioned, we are seeing today and will continue to
    see in the future. Some people claim the purpose of technology is to free up humans so they can dream and envision a future that is hopefully
    more pleasant.
    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space.
    Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down.
    There are some who believe ET's gave electronics to humans that has revolutionized
    our lives. AI, after all, is based on human thinking. So there is so much it can do.
    Arindam
    Of course. It is an important machine to be respected but not worshipped as superior.
    AI is perfect example of GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) as AI bots require rules or
    training data in gazillions to be accurate. In recent news, I read that chatGPT
    was able to calculate mortgage payments given the inputs of price, interest rate, etc.
    This is hardly an AI thing as there are multiple mortgage calculators in the net
    that don't claim to be AI. Then there are some who think sentence completion in
    the search box is done better by AI. I can see that Google is doing the same,
    even though it misses some. I surmise the convenience of one-stop-shop, which is currently
    Google , will lure the people to chatGPT. If they make it a subscription service,
    then I am out.

    Arindam
    Really nothing intelligent about any such AI, if by intelligence we include originality and relevance.
    They collect stuff based on rules and present them for lazy people and idiots.
    Problem is that there are too many rich idiots.

    Do they become idiots after or before getting rich? I didn't know that Google's first page is sponsored
    links. If at all, they show the less relevant links in the subsequent pages. I have a blogspot running for
    many years. It still doesn't appear in the search pages. Also other search engines like Yahoo skip the
    blogspot pages. It is very disappointing but for the free blogspot. Most people use it to backup their
    less important stuff.

    People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you.
    Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Arindam Banerjee@21:1/5 to Arindam Banerjee on Wed Feb 1 18:36:48 2023
    On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 07:55:22 UTC+5:30, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 02:57:51 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 8:48:16 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 02:08:08 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 6:00:13 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 06:03:21 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:44:31 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box
    input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called
    couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of
    Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in
    the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules.
    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.
    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice
    recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than
    NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge
    base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.
    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.


    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?
    The insurance companies will sort that out.
    They can't bring back casualties of traffic accidents caused by AI.
    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    Or doctors for that matter.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech
    company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.
    Arindam:
    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.
    Well said. No AI can match the creativity of humans that seems to be endless.
    Whatever Star Trek TV series envisioned, we are seeing today and will continue to
    see in the future. Some people claim the purpose of technology is to
    free up humans so they can dream and envision a future that is hopefully
    more pleasant.
    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space.
    Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down.
    There are some who believe ET's gave electronics to humans that has revolutionized
    our lives. AI, after all, is based on human thinking. So there is so much it can do.
    Arindam
    Of course. It is an important machine to be respected but not worshipped as superior.
    AI is perfect example of GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) as AI bots require rules or
    training data in gazillions to be accurate. In recent news, I read that chatGPT
    was able to calculate mortgage payments given the inputs of price, interest rate, etc.
    This is hardly an AI thing as there are multiple mortgage calculators in the net
    that don't claim to be AI. Then there are some who think sentence completion in
    the search box is done better by AI. I can see that Google is doing the same,
    even though it misses some. I surmise the convenience of one-stop-shop, which is currently
    Google , will lure the people to chatGPT. If they make it a subscription service,
    then I am out.
    Arindam
    Really nothing intelligent about any such AI, if by intelligence we include originality and relevance.
    They collect stuff based on rules and present them for lazy people and idiots.
    Problem is that there are too many rich idiots.
    Do they become idiots after or before getting rich? I didn't know that Google's first page is sponsored
    links. If at all, they show the less relevant links in the subsequent pages. I have a blogspot running for
    many years. It still doesn't appear in the search pages. Also other search engines like Yahoo skip the
    blogspot pages. It is very disappointing but for the free blogspot. Most people use it to backup their
    less important stuff.
    They are rich because they are mean people who are focussed and united in their blinkered way. They grab money somehow and circilate it among each other, thus not letting it out of their collective grasp.
    For legitimacy they give awards and fame to their tribal suckups who may have some talent, often frossly inflated.
    Oops, it should be grossly above!
    They ignore all those who do not suck up to them. And that means they avoid those with genuine talents, who they think are their natural enemies as their new ideas could be upsetting. So they hate me unitedly, and as you note, similar sorts as well.
    Why are they idiots?
    Because fame and money is all they understand, they are stunted otherwise.
    And power too, gotta add. More than fame.
    As they are so stunted by bad habits and notions, they cannot understand that great new ideas will make even more money for them.
    To answer your question, they become idiotic after they become rich. Dull, too.
    People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you.
    Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Arindam Banerjee@21:1/5 to gandikotam on Wed Feb 1 18:25:19 2023
    On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 02:57:51 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 8:48:16 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 02:08:08 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 6:00:13 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 06:03:21 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:44:31 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box
    input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called
    couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of
    Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in
    the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules.
    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.
    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice
    recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than
    NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge
    base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.
    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.


    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car
    does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?
    The insurance companies will sort that out.
    They can't bring back casualties of traffic accidents caused by AI.
    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    Or doctors for that matter.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done
    with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.
    Arindam:
    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.
    Well said. No AI can match the creativity of humans that seems to be endless.
    Whatever Star Trek TV series envisioned, we are seeing today and will continue to
    see in the future. Some people claim the purpose of technology is to free up humans so they can dream and envision a future that is hopefully
    more pleasant.
    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space.
    Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down.
    There are some who believe ET's gave electronics to humans that has revolutionized
    our lives. AI, after all, is based on human thinking. So there is so much it can do.
    Arindam
    Of course. It is an important machine to be respected but not worshipped as superior.
    AI is perfect example of GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) as AI bots require rules or
    training data in gazillions to be accurate. In recent news, I read that chatGPT
    was able to calculate mortgage payments given the inputs of price, interest rate, etc.
    This is hardly an AI thing as there are multiple mortgage calculators in the net
    that don't claim to be AI. Then there are some who think sentence completion in
    the search box is done better by AI. I can see that Google is doing the same,
    even though it misses some. I surmise the convenience of one-stop-shop, which is currently
    Google , will lure the people to chatGPT. If they make it a subscription service,
    then I am out.
    Arindam
    Really nothing intelligent about any such AI, if by intelligence we include originality and relevance.
    They collect stuff based on rules and present them for lazy people and idiots.
    Problem is that there are too many rich idiots.
    Do they become idiots after or before getting rich? I didn't know that Google's first page is sponsored
    links. If at all, they show the less relevant links in the subsequent pages. I have a blogspot running for
    many years. It still doesn't appear in the search pages. Also other search engines like Yahoo skip the
    blogspot pages. It is very disappointing but for the free blogspot. Most people use it to backup their
    less important stuff.
    They are rich because they are mean people who are focussed and united in their blinkered way. They grab money somehow and circilate it among each other, thus not letting it out of their collective grasp.
    For legitimacy they give awards and fame to their tribal suckups who may have some talent, often frossly inflated.
    They ignore all those who do not suck up to them. And that means they avoid those with genuine talents, who they think are their natural enemies as their new ideas could be upsetting. So they hate me unitedly, and as you note, similar sorts as well.
    Why are they idiots?
    Because fame and money is all they understand, they are stunted otherwise. As they are so stunted by bad habits and notions, they cannot understand that great new ideas will make even more money for them.

    People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you.
    Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gandikotam@21:1/5 to Arindam Banerjee on Thu Feb 2 13:19:31 2023
    On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 6:36:50 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 07:55:22 UTC+5:30, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 02:57:51 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 8:48:16 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 02:08:08 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 6:00:13 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 06:03:21 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:44:31 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box
    input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called
    couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of
    Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in
    the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules.
    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.
    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice
    recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for
    voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than
    NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge
    base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.
    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.


    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?
    The insurance companies will sort that out.
    They can't bring back casualties of traffic accidents caused by AI.
    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    Or doctors for that matter.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech
    company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays
    on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken
    away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.
    Arindam:
    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.
    Well said. No AI can match the creativity of humans that seems to be endless.
    Whatever Star Trek TV series envisioned, we are seeing today and will continue to
    see in the future. Some people claim the purpose of technology is to
    free up humans so they can dream and envision a future that is hopefully
    more pleasant.
    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space.
    Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down.
    There are some who believe ET's gave electronics to humans that has revolutionized
    our lives. AI, after all, is based on human thinking. So there is so much it can do.
    Arindam
    Of course. It is an important machine to be respected but not worshipped as superior.
    AI is perfect example of GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) as AI bots require rules or
    training data in gazillions to be accurate. In recent news, I read that chatGPT
    was able to calculate mortgage payments given the inputs of price, interest rate, etc.
    This is hardly an AI thing as there are multiple mortgage calculators in the net
    that don't claim to be AI. Then there are some who think sentence completion in
    the search box is done better by AI. I can see that Google is doing the same,
    even though it misses some. I surmise the convenience of one-stop-shop, which is currently
    Google , will lure the people to chatGPT. If they make it a subscription service,
    then I am out.
    Arindam
    Really nothing intelligent about any such AI, if by intelligence we include originality and relevance.
    They collect stuff based on rules and present them for lazy people and idiots.
    Problem is that there are too many rich idiots.
    Do they become idiots after or before getting rich? I didn't know that Google's first page is sponsored
    links. If at all, they show the less relevant links in the subsequent pages. I have a blogspot running for
    many years. It still doesn't appear in the search pages. Also other search engines like Yahoo skip the
    blogspot pages. It is very disappointing but for the free blogspot. Most people use it to backup their
    less important stuff.
    They are rich because they are mean people who are focussed and united in their blinkered way. They grab money somehow and circilate it among each other, thus not letting it out of their collective grasp.
    For legitimacy they give awards and fame to their tribal suckups who may have some talent, often frossly inflated.
    Oops, it should be grossly above!

    Arindam
    They ignore all those who do not suck up to them. And that means they avoid those with genuine talents, who they think are their natural enemies as their new ideas could be upsetting. So they hate me unitedly, and as you note, similar sorts as well.

    So true. This kind of corruption is not just limited to individuals. The establishment takes care of their kind and type. In a recent news, MSFT has been given a huge grant by American DARPA to develop quantum computing in an effort to lead China and
    other countries. Is that necessary? Why can't they give you the money to further your research and implement your ideas more fully to demonstrate them in front of media? The grant is a drop in MSFT's revenue, but still DARPA wants access to whatever MSFT
    develops. It is a different matter that quantum computing is a pipe dream. By the way, MSFT disbanded their virtual reality goggles team because pentagon didn't want to buy them. Apparently the laid off ones became a public charge meaning claiming
    unemployment benefits. It simply doesn't make sense from where we stand but ample sense to the powers that be.



    Why are they idiots?
    Because fame and money is all they understand, they are stunted otherwise.
    And power too, gotta add. More than fame.
    As they are so stunted by bad habits and notions, they cannot understand that great new ideas will make even more money for them.


    To answer your question, they become idiotic after they become rich. Dull, too.
    People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you.
    Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


    Regards

    Regards
    Regards

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Arindam Banerjee@21:1/5 to gandikotam on Fri Feb 3 02:02:46 2023
    On Friday, 3 February 2023 at 02:49:34 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 6:36:50 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 07:55:22 UTC+5:30, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 02:57:51 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 8:48:16 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 02:08:08 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 6:00:13 PM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 06:03:21 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 6:44:31 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 06:10:24 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 3:12:51 AM UTC-8, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
    On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 08:35:12 UTC+5:30, gandikotam wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:58:50 AM UTC-8, Madhu wrote:
    * gandikotam <63bf74c1-1245-4fa4-8c8d-58a0b074dfd5n @googlegroups.com> :
    Wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:40 -0800 (PST):
    I interpret "derivatives" as: Friedman in his book on "Flat Earth"
    praised the H1B system claiming for every visa worker, 5 or 6 jobs
    would be created for the benefit of non-visa workers who do the menial
    jobs like cleaning houses, dry cleaning, chauffering, etc.
    OK (though I was looking the 5 or 6 jobs that are created on the other
    side of the H1B, --the worker as the "asset" derivatives in the usual
    sense of derivatives market on the asset)
    I think what you say is not true about face recognition which has been
    controversial for its false positives. There is no behavioral aspect
    to it. The neural nets employed are as good as the examples they are
    trained with. They call it AI even though the neural nets don't build
    any models.
    Madhu:
    (I never took a course on NN, and I havent touched any machine learning
    text since 2006 -- so I don't claim to be correct. but i understood the
    point with the blackbox behavoour was though there is no explicit model,
    the NN itself is taken as the "model". my own (meta) point was when a
    system is implemented and human behaviour is regulated by the black-box
    input-outputs the model is imposed "on" the real world rather than the
    other way round as is perceived.
    When I was in school, they used to teach model-based reasoning. They used
    to build deep models. I think it was Lenat who got major funding from US
    govt. to build an AI that has common sense among other things. I heard
    it was abandoned at some point. The problem with models is most people
    can't articulate them well enough. So expert systems as they are called
    couldn't capture the expertise of people with know-how adequately. Then
    came case-based reasoning that seems to have fit the bill. I am sure it
    has some pitfalls. NN's seem to have broken the brain blood barrier so to say.
    NN's to me is brute force. As you said, if some people expect others
    to modify their behavior to please the AI, then it is something of concern.
    One could say while taking a driver's license picture no make up which
    won't sit well with some. Similarly credit-rating services using AI can
    be tweaked to overlook false negatives to make the sale. Ultimately
    the shop keepers decide how much credit a person deserves, not AI.
    Arindam:
    How much AI it takes for that, is the q.

    You must be humoring us. AI has always been there since the days of
    Marvin Minsky who wrote a book on Perceptrons -- sort of neurons in
    the neural nets. But he took a detour and worked on expert systems,
    I believe, that use if-then-else rules.
    What else is AI?
    I knew AI would take off back in 2007, when I did the architecture and some routines for ultrafast message passing between unlimited number of robots, thus creating the netvous system of an android, say.
    As always the case, with me, that work was appropriated by my paymasters with minimal benefit to myself.
    I would like some IT company to take interest in this work, let us really go and make a superhuman yet a child.
    Capturing the right amount of
    detail is a challenge. Beside, Raj Reddy worked on hearsay, a kind of voice
    recognition. I read Kurzwell books on mathematical modeling for
    voice recognition that was very successful. I think any AI, other than
    NN's, is bound to be slower than a real time conversation as the knowledge
    base to search becomes too unwieldy after some time.
    Well, here is where my work could be useful.
    Drones became super efficient after 2010, as I knew they would be.


    I think there are moral issues about AI. When AI driven car
    does some accident, whom to blame, etc.?
    The insurance companies will sort that out.
    They can't bring back casualties of traffic accidents caused by AI.
    There are also
    legal opinions that are case-based. Technically no-need for jury trials.
    Or doctors for that matter.
    These days home work assignments of students are being done
    with AI. chatGPT has captured the imagination of many a big tech
    company like Microsoft and Google. Creating canned essays on school topics seem to be the rage. If cell phones have taken
    away our attention span, AI will rob us off common sense.
    Arindam:
    At that rate,yes. People will only have the wits left to adore media celebs and look presentable.
    Well said. No AI can match the creativity of humans that seems to be endless.
    Whatever Star Trek TV series envisioned, we are seeing today and will continue to
    see in the future. Some people claim the purpose of technology is to
    free up humans so they can dream and envision a future that is hopefully
    more pleasant.
    But for me, AI is to be used in difficult areas, like under sea or outer space.
    Deep conspiracies against my new ideas prevent that - anything to keep me down.
    There are some who believe ET's gave electronics to humans that has revolutionized
    our lives. AI, after all, is based on human thinking. So there is so much it can do.
    Arindam
    Of course. It is an important machine to be respected but not worshipped as superior.
    AI is perfect example of GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) as AI bots require rules or
    training data in gazillions to be accurate. In recent news, I read that chatGPT
    was able to calculate mortgage payments given the inputs of price, interest rate, etc.
    This is hardly an AI thing as there are multiple mortgage calculators in the net
    that don't claim to be AI. Then there are some who think sentence completion in
    the search box is done better by AI. I can see that Google is doing the same,
    even though it misses some. I surmise the convenience of one-stop-shop, which is currently
    Google , will lure the people to chatGPT. If they make it a subscription service,
    then I am out.
    Arindam
    Really nothing intelligent about any such AI, if by intelligence we include originality and relevance.
    They collect stuff based on rules and present them for lazy people and idiots.
    Problem is that there are too many rich idiots.
    Do they become idiots after or before getting rich? I didn't know that Google's first page is sponsored
    links. If at all, they show the less relevant links in the subsequent pages. I have a blogspot running for
    many years. It still doesn't appear in the search pages. Also other search engines like Yahoo skip the
    blogspot pages. It is very disappointing but for the free blogspot. Most people use it to backup their
    less important stuff.
    They are rich because they are mean people who are focussed and united in their blinkered way. They grab money somehow and circilate it among each other, thus not letting it out of their collective grasp.
    For legitimacy they give awards and fame to their tribal suckups who may have some talent, often frossly inflated.
    Oops, it should be grossly above!
    Arindam
    They ignore all those who do not suck up to them. And that means they avoid those with genuine talents, who they think are their natural enemies as their new ideas could be upsetting. So they hate me unitedly, and as you note, similar sorts as well.
    So true. This kind of corruption is not just limited to individuals. The establishment takes care of their kind and type. In a recent news, MSFT has been given a huge grant by American DARPA to develop quantum computing in an effort to lead China and
    other countries. Is that necessary? Why can't they give you the money to further your research and implement your ideas more fully to demonstrate them in front of media?

    They do make advances in computing all the time. To give boost to the bunkum quantum theories, they are now passing off the computing gains as owing to quantum theory! All potential dissidents supportive of truth are automatically gagged, with such
    persecuted examples as the international hero Assange. Lies and liars rule.

    They do not want to give me any publicity, for if they do I will get popular or at least controversial and that would not suit their physics and metaphysics and last but not least their total global dominance. I will show how wrong they have been for
    generations, and how things can be fixed for a better, much better world. Sounds good, but...

    We have to understand that the rich care one thing more than about getting wealthier, and that is losing their status, so they unite in eliminating any perceived opposition to their power and wealth. They have no use for research that is out of their
    control. So what I get from their minions us not funding, but death threats.


    In short the powers that be have nothing but raw hatred for any potential self sacrificing Christ figure, like Christ himself who was crucified for objecting to the defilement of the Holy Temple by greedy entities. As I may be seen as one such threat to
    their cosy lifestyles, they will do what they can to suppress me and my works. Since I do not work for them, they cannot steal or use my inventions and discoveries, so they pretend to ignore, as a joint strategy!

    As for myself I dedicate my life and works to the Divine, for the good of all. In return I get blessings and practical help. No need for me to suck up to the rich idiots.



    The grant is a drop in MSFT's revenue, but still DARPA wants access to whatever MSFT develops. It is a different matter that quantum computing is a pipe dream. By the way, MSFT disbanded their virtual reality goggles team because pentagon didn't want to
    buy them. Apparently the laid off ones became a public charge meaning claiming unemployment benefits. It simply doesn't make sense from where we stand but ample sense to the powers that be.
    Why are they idiots?
    Because fame and money is all they understand, they are stunted otherwise.
    And power too, gotta add. More than fame.
    As they are so stunted by bad habits and notions, they cannot understand that great new ideas will make even more money for them.


    To answer your question, they become idiotic after they become rich. Dull, too.
    People are very satisfied with what they have, no change required thank you.
    Definitely no-no to any hint of upsetting the boat.


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