Comments on: In Its Image

By: thomas_5900

thomas_5900 — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:36:00 +0000

Skynet? I agree with developing AI, but as long as we know when to pull the plug xD

By: Kaworu Nagisa

Kaworu Nagisa — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:07:00 +0000

msafwan86_nnss wrote: “-”sensory deprivation” is a mere human condition, NN cannot experience ‘sensory deprivation’.”

Sorry, but if you would have understood anything about this video, you would know that this kind of “sensory deprivation” (or rather imagination) is achieved by introducing random noise or perturbations to the network’s connection weights. That’s the unique property of this technology. As for the rest of your objections, you may want to look up the company website and study it because some of those have already been addressed (for example your claim that this kind of artificial neural network cannot get more complex than the human brain which is totally wrong; the human brain is complex but the underlying principle is a relatively simple structure).

Skye-hook wrote: “They truly want to “play God”! [...] Maybe it’s time to pass some laws about this nutso stuff!”

This kind of frightened thinking is exactly what holds mankind back to create a better life for everyone. Obviously, one must be aware of any forceful application of this technology that infringes upon your own right to choose, but one does not have the right to withhold the choice for others. Utilizing legislation to thwart progress in the name of self-righteous and probably religiously defiled motivations is the last thing we need in this day and age. I also believe that “mind uploading” will be unnecessary with the advent of rejuvenation biotechnologies and other developments which we probably could already have if it weren’t for the interference of religious institutions who are afraid of everything and have the audacity to claim any moral authority with their history of genocide and scientific falsehoods. All that does is manipulating areas of human ingenuity which they have neither respect for nor knowledge of.

By: Ishmael Beckford-Tongs

Ishmael Beckford-Tongs — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:34:00 +0000

I’ve heard this argument from misanthropists of every conceivable shade of ****. The idea that war is essential for population control is based on the idea that the Earth’s resources are severely limited. This is not the case. With equitable distribution of resources and a little administrative magic every person on the Earth would have enough resources to live in comfort with needs and wants satisfied.
Not only that but the condom is a far better method of population control than the Atom bomb. Birth policies would have been implemented had the wars not happened – same result. Population always explodes after war anyway so the decrease is mitigated

By: Jarrod Armstrong

Jarrod Armstrong — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:15:00 +0000

your idea to preserve a million humans from fatal vehicle collisions will inadvertently add to the already unmanageable population growth. You must be a fool, as you probably believe tyrants like hitler and stalin should not have committed genocide, well if they and other evil men had not killed millions, the population today would be ridiculous

By: Nathan Dempsey

Nathan Dempsey — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:54:00 +0000

this guy is hard to listen to because he seems like such a crack pot. someone else should be telling this story because this guy is completely inaccessible.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:35:00 +0000

Hmmm, some interesting comments, definitely food for thought. What really is around the corner for us? Are cars as we know them getting to the end of their product life cycle?

I don’t think it will be too long before we have cars driving themselves, pretty sure they’re already working on it somewhere in the world. It could all be conducted by satellite, just an extension of the current GPS and ‘accidents’ would be a thing of the past. Since more than a million die on the roads every year, that would be incredible progress.

Cars would become a place for relaxation, entertainment, work, meetings and freely talk on the mobile phone – I’m sure we would have much better things to do with that hour or so than worrying about traffic. Plus you can drink as much as you like and get home safely.

For those addicted to the thrill of driving/racing, we could still have special driving ranges.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:22:00 +0000

Then see what the “dork” has to say about thses matters at http://initsimage.org/home.htm. (see Thalamocortical Algorithms in Space!)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:17:00 +0000

For you, the reader; What I think he talks about near the end of the film, regarding his philosophical persecption of the universe, is a kind of Pantheism. A concept that the Universe and God is the very same entity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:14:00 +0000

Would you want to?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:13:00 +0000

Still to this day the colour yellow is embedded in our psyche apparently making us hungry as early cellular life living in the depths of the ocean couldn’t stand the harmful affects of the sun when it was directly over-head. The cells would rise to the surface at dusk to interact and photosythesise. The sun has had a direct influence on the evolution of life especially as we are all made of the matter that’s created in stars.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:37:00 +0000

I think he’s talking more about a propensity of the universe rather than the usual “big ape in the sky” guiding things…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:37:00 +0000

eh, Wilbur, let’s keep this powered flight stuff a big secret. …ok, Orville!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:34:00 +0000

eh, Wilbur, let’s keep this powered flight stuff a big secret. …ok, Orville!

By: Todd Morrow

Todd Morrow — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:57:00 +0000

This documentary seemed kindof self-serving. Like a product promotion. I can’t see any intended purpose of this other than to make us say “I want one too”. But it has to be one of his b/c of the patent. Ok.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:07:00 +0000

he said about the universe having consciousness arising from interactions of lets say stars and matter, and he believed that was some kind of an enabler for life on earth, but if stars are neurons, how do they effect the evolution of life on earth, and where does he get that from?
even if the universe is a bran, it by definition cant be conscious of let alone influence events such as the evolution of life within itself without some kind of outside influence, and Steven Hawking is always on about events before the universe began being unable to influence events after the big bang, which makes that impossible