In gmail now, if you say "attached" in your email but don't attach something, you can still send the message, it just gives you a warning. You're consistently shown improved interfaces and content because of ML, yet those aren't scary and you don't feel out of control.
I think people have seen way too many scary movies about AI, and it's tainted our whole discipline.
Red lights aren't just a "helpful warning." The robots already have the final say in that arena, because human law (for now) backs them up.
It's not based on scary movies... primitive robots already force me to waste my time on a nightly basis.
The town where I grew up has a red light which only changes when a weight sensor is tripped. But weight sensors are expensive, and the approaching two-lane road only has a sensor in one lane. Worse, it's calibrated for cars, so motorcycles never trip it.
Yes, only. If you ride up late at night on a motorcycle, you have a choice between committing a serious traffic offense and waiting several hours for the light to change. No, this problem isn't ever going to be addressed.
I think it's damned reasonable to be scared of what we'll get when people hand authority to machines. Not for Terminator reasons, but for simple bureaucratic stupidity.
Some people also put magnets in their boots[2].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_loop
2. http://www.instructables.com/id/Traffic-Light-Trigger-for-yo...
Shame they only put the loop in one of two lanes, though...
It's probably already addressed: run the light. Check the regulations of your local jurisdiction, but it very likely that the light is treated as "broken", and you are allowed to proceed after verifying that the intersection is clear. Yes, I've tested this IRL.
If it's an intersection you deal with regularly, call the local DOT, tell them about it and they'll come recalibrate the sensor. Yup, tested that IRL, too. Buddy of mine said that in his case they met him at the intersection so they make sure his bike worked when they were done.
And, BTW, it's not a weight sensor but an induction loop. Meaning that turning the bike off and restarting it can trip the light. Something something electricity through the starter windings.
We've already seen how poorly designed test-data and training combinations can result neural nets that behave in a racist fashion. More broadly, neural nets have been enlisted in quests like find insurance risks or security risks and here they could really bad effects if they get veto power.
Uhh, or
(A) Back up, pull over your motorcycle, walk the crosswalk(s) as a pedestrian with a 'bike', get on motorcycle on the side of the road you want to go on, continue; or
(B) Make a right turn + U-turn as many times as needed to reach the desired turn? (3-way intersections can pose a problem, but the through road is most likely defaulting to green and if not you can pull over...)
If your municipality still treated either of the above as a 'serious traffic violation' yet still not springing for better sensors that likely exist for more mainstream compatibility then you're just living with idiots at that point (or they just don't like motorcycles :P)
It seems happy with uploading the same file to Google drive and putting a link in the email. Though that doesn't solve my use case of sharing with Chinese Nationals who are blocked from those urls. I'm also not clear on how/why this is somehow more secure.
RAR files used to get through, but now Gmail detects them as well. I think even 7z.
Tried tar, gzip, even uuencode. Then taking "exe" out of the file name with the uuencoded version.
Edit: Shell archive works! apt-get install sharutils;shar file.exe > file.exe.shar
Have you tried the -mhe option in 7zip?
We have been making laws that limit what we can do for millennia.
This also has nothing to do with robots.
You can violate systems with overrides, and doing so might have consequences, but that's distinct from systems you can't override which was kemendo's point on our fear of where the control lies. (If tomorrow we decide to swap the meaning of red and green, that control is still humans'; the lights won't do anything about it.)
A self-driving car that locks up if you try and run a red would be an example, but as you didn't say that I'm guessing you just missed the point.
You wouldn't be "overriding" killer robots by hiding in underground tunnels. You'd just be avoiding them entirely.
My main argument though is that people's distrust comes from extrapolation of negative real life experiences, not just from the world of fiction.
You can rewire it or shoot it with a gun. It has no physical control over your actions.
That is the actual sense of the word "control" in a humans-vs-robots debate.
So it's not the machines, it's humans ceding power to them voluntarily.
But traffic lights don't "have a say", they're put up and have their mechanics defined by humans. Neither does electronic time recording have a say on how many hours of work are required for an employee to get a paycheck.
The problem is that
- taking away that control is just one parameter, one preset, one configuration setting away
- We don't exactly have the best track record for consistently picking people we can trust not to fuck with those configuration settings for their own ends
> I think people have seen way too many scary movies about AI, and it's tainted our whole discipline.
I think people have been burned too many times by their 'authorities who know better', and fortunately at least now have a sense of where the slippery slopes are (if not exactly how best to navigate them).
I'd pick erring on the side of caution over sliding down one of those cliffs any day. If you think it's such an impairment to progress, feel free to live in a non-paranoid place; but if "it's only paranoia when someone's not trying to break it for their own gain", as far as I'm concerned it's rarely-to-never going to be 'just paranoia'.
(With that said, this particular post isn't too scary, and just reduces to the "control your hardware" problem. That, and 'control your networks' are the big ones for now.)
I agree that it's not scary in the "Skynet is going to take over" sense. Much rather in the "They Live" sense, though even without the bare malicious intents there.
I think this is ridiculously unfair. My concerns about policies like this have nothing at all to do with strong AI. We don't need scary movies to see examples of software decisions made with no access to human overrides.
A simple and extremely topical example: years ago, my Google account somehow got screwed up. It decided I was 13, and never aged. Six years after I made it, I was still 13.
It turned out there was no way to fix that. If you were under 13, they would close your account for ToS violation. Then, after closure, you could fax proof of age and get your account fixed. But if your account was listed at 13, forever? No such luck. There was no way whatsoever to fix the problem. No phone number, and (as with all Google problems) lengthy support forum threads amounting to "deal with it".
I have no idea how this happened. But it was completely irreparable, until one day the bug got fixed and my age was right. That's the stuff I worry about - simple rules being applied absolutely, with no recourse to human judgement.
> Cueball: Hey. Hey! Stop retracting my CD!
> I feel uncomfortable when my computer physically struggles with me. Sure, I can overpower it now, but it feels like a few short steps from here to the robot war.
Another step towards this war is the Bluetooth connection in my wife's car. As a passenger, I cannot connect my phone to play music, directions, or make calls unless the car is in park, because "This function is not available while moving". And I hate it. We don't want to sit and wait to set off while its 8-year-old Bluetooth hardware pairs, we want to get going and let the navigator do the navigating.
Fortunately, this contrasts with the Waze navigation app's message box which actually detects motion using the GPS, and displays "Typing is disabled while driving - OK / Passenger"
When you're (as the leadership of an organisation) actively installing a filter, I think you'd be quite more likely to install the filter that would say "Error: The message cannot be sent because it merely reinforces the majority viewpoint and does not add new information to the conversation."
https://i.redd.it/x7oi5njhf7ry.png
http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/...
"Error: The message cannot be sent because it does not conform to accepted groupthink."