the robots are coming get your a.i. brains ready !

[lightspeed]

Deepmind A.I. learns to play video games
Deepmind was recently acquired by Google and it is an artificial intelligence company that works with simulated neural networks.

You can see one of them here, as it learns from its environment how to play video games. A simulated neural network is a simulated brain that learns from its environment, without as much, if any, programming. It learns though experience, like a child does.

Check out this video - not only does the computer master the first game, it adds a dash of creativity after hundreds of hours of training. Also check out the games "River Raid" and "Battle Zone," which involve controlling combat vehicles.

They are going to move their simulator to 3D games like Quake.


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DeepMind Technologies is a British artificial intelligence company. It was acquired by Google in 2014.

The company's latest achievement is the creation of a neural network that learns how to play video games in a similar fashion to humans.[2]


Wikipedia

What is the limit to how complex of a video game Deepmind could learn? Could it learn Minecraft? Video games are not that far of a step from interacting with reality, either. In fact, I bet you could train one of these neural networks on video games to prep it for interacting with reality. Think of one operating a drone, for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ

[onthecuttingedge2005]

I use to build maps for Quake and ultimate tournament games, it was fun, I would love to see this A.I play one of these games on God mode, Bawahahaha!

[lightspeed]

The bionic man, and what he tells us about the future of being human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQn6ioXUpDk

[onthecuttingedge2005]

D.A.V.I.D has been busy!

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Imagine a robot 20 times faster, 20 times stronger than any human, programmed with every form of Martial Arts ever recorded by mankind, it would be formidable opponent.

[Art]

I imagined. I imagined a well aimed bullet... :o

[Calhoone]

Save the bullet and build an E.M.P device!


Edit: Auto correct on phones can be annoying.  EMP got turned into employee..

[onthecuttingedge2005]

D.A.V.I.D (Dynamically Advanced Virtual Interactive Droid)  8)

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Divine light is entangled light, was easy to figure out. at minimum, each photon must be at 1.4 MeV or plus then Light will interact with itself in entanglement. funny!!!! `1.44000 MeV, the tribes. silly, right?

[onthecuttingedge2005]

there is just no way to play super man, people will always hate you and others will always love you. it is a no win situation for such a person or thing.

[lightspeed]

I don't know how many people read this interview etc. but it's interesting! :)
When will man become machine?
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30583218

[onthecuttingedge2005]

I don't know how many people read this interview etc. but it's interesting! :)
When will man become machine?
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30583218

Carrington Event

[Art]

According to tech editor, investor and author Michael S Malone who grew up in Silicon Valley:

In 1859 the biggest solar storm on record took place. Called the Carrington Event after astronomer Richard Carrington, the solar flare was so powerful that there were reports of telegraph pole wires melting and causing fires.

It is not known how regularly flares of this size occur or if there will be another - but the consequences for 21st century Earth would be utterly life-changing.

"If we had one now it would take out every chip in the world," says Michael Malone.

"If that happened civilisation would sort of stop."

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I hardly think so. No more than the much feared 2000 or Y2K bug had everyone trembling in their shoes. There are other avenues that cover the bases. If it ever happens, then it will happen. Personally, I'm not digging up my backyard to hide while waiting for it. Just saying.... ;)

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Time Travelers are not called Time Travelers in the future, they are called Scripters...... they are the ones who write code that changes things.
they don't program software, they program people.

[Art]

I'm not sure whether you knew it but I am a Time Traveler.

I am currently unable to go backward to the past nor forward to my time in the future.

I am stuck in this time period where I must endure the passing of each of your days
once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds.

Such is fate. It is however, better than the alternative...having no time left at all! ;)