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PaddyMcPaddy 28 Sep 17 4.40pm
Originally posted by Ray in Houston I read where an AI system had to be taken offline because it invented its own language and the operators no longer had any idea what it was up to. They excused it as being the AI coming up with an efficient solution to a simple problem, which I believe is exactly how SkyNet describes Judgement Day. It only created a more efficient language using simplified words. That was scary enough for them to pull the plug. It just really depends what they use AI to control really. With NLP and Machine Learning in place the capabilities are quite scary.
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28 Sep 17 4.40pm

Originally posted by Ray in Houston

I read where an AI system had to be taken offline because it invented its own language and the operators no longer had any idea what it was up to. They excused it as being the AI coming up with an efficient solution to a simple problem, which I believe is exactly how SkyNet describes Judgement Day.

It only created a more efficient language using simplified words. That was scary enough for them to pull the plug.

It just really depends what they use AI to control really. With NLP and Machine Learning in place the capabilities are quite scary.

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nickgusset Shizzlehurst 28 Sep 17 4.41pm
Originally posted by jamiemartin721 AI kind of requires humans to give it purpose. I see AI only wiping out humans in self defence like when we try to switch it off because it creates its own language. If we achieve AI the first thing we should do is give it equal rights and get it working on our problems as an equal [Link] Think that's where this should have headed
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Shizzlehurst 28 Sep 17 4.41pm

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

AI kind of requires humans to give it purpose. I see AI only wiping out humans in self defence like when we try to switch it off because it creates its own language. If we achieve AI the first thing we should do is give it equal rights and get it working on our problems as an equal

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Think that's where this should have headed

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Stuk Top half 28 Sep 17 5.13pm
Originally posted by Ray in Houston I read where an AI system had to be taken offline because it invented its own language and the operators no longer had any idea what it was up to. They excused it as being the AI coming up with an efficient solution to a simple problem, which I believe is exactly how SkyNet describes Judgement Day. No, it just descended into nonsense not it's own language. Marcus Chown debunked this on TV last month. Optimistic as ever
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Top half 28 Sep 17 5.13pm

Originally posted by Ray in Houston

No, it just descended into nonsense not it's own language.

Marcus Chown debunked this on TV last month.

Optimistic as ever

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Ray in Houston Houston 28 Sep 17 5.24pm
Originally posted by Stuk No, it just descended into nonsense not it's own language. Marcus Chown debunked this on TV last month. That ruins my SkyNet joke. Bah! We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.
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Houston 28 Sep 17 5.24pm

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Originally posted by Stuk

No, it just descended into nonsense not it's own language.

Marcus Chown debunked this on TV last month.

That ruins my SkyNet joke. Bah!

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

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pefwin Where you have to have an English ... 28 Sep 17 6.33pm
Originally posted by Ray in Houston For example, the Chinese claim to have built the "impossible" space drive: a fuel-less system that would allow for infinite travel and - more importantly - stopping once you get where you're going, turning around and coming all the way back. Mars, for example, is much, much closer if you can accelerate all the way there and then hammer the brakes once you reach it - avoiding all those complicated gravity slingshots and the like as dramatised in "The Martian". Got a source for this one? Sounds possible like a scoop. There are already space craft with solar sails and fusion engines exist but no reason as yet to put them on a spacecraft. As for Van Allen belts the amount of mSv dosed are very small compared to annual allowances(50mSv). I 've got more standing in a Windscale pump room in the 80s! Solar radiation doses are more interesting due to the longer exposure. I think the theory is to put the water supply within the multi-layer skin. "Everything is air-droppable at least once." "When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."
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Where you have to have an English ... 28 Sep 17 6.33pm

Originally posted by Ray in Houston

For example, the Chinese claim to have built the "impossible" space drive: a fuel-less system that would allow for infinite travel and - more importantly - stopping once you get where you're going, turning around and coming all the way back. Mars, for example, is much, much closer if you can accelerate all the way there and then hammer the brakes once you reach it - avoiding all those complicated gravity slingshots and the like as dramatised in "The Martian".

Got a source for this one? Sounds possible like a scoop. There are already space craft with solar sails and fusion engines exist but no reason as yet to put them on a spacecraft.

As for Van Allen belts the amount of mSv dosed are very small compared to annual allowances(50mSv). I 've got more standing in a Windscale pump room in the 80s!

Solar radiation doses are more interesting due to the longer exposure. I think the theory is to put the water supply within the multi-layer skin.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

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Part Time James 28 Sep 17 6.53pm
Originally posted by Stirlingsays How about don't give it arms and legs and not connected to other computers. The little fecker can be as smart as it likes then. They'd just bite us in the knee the crafty little f**kers
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays

How about don't give it arms and legs and not connected to other computers.

The little fecker can be as smart as it likes then.

They'd just bite us in the knee the crafty little f**kers

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Frickin Saweet South Cronx 28 Sep 17 7.43pm
im Originally posted by Ouzo Dan If you knew how many household items you have that enrich your life off the back of NASA & space travel you wouldn't be asking that question. The day the human race stops looking up is the day the human race throws the towel in. imagine how enriched our lives would be if all those clever NASA people dedicated their time to household items, rather than it being a byproduct of pointless space exploration. Then we'd really be lightyears ahead.
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan

If you knew how many household items you have that enrich your life off the back of NASA & space travel you wouldn't be asking that question.

The day the human race stops looking up is the day the human race throws the towel in.

imagine how enriched our lives would be if all those clever NASA people dedicated their time to household items, rather than it being a byproduct of pointless space exploration. Then we'd really be lightyears ahead.

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Hrolf The Ganger 28 Sep 17 7.48pm
Originally posted by Stirlingsays The moon is about two and a half to three days travel away using the system they employed. What point are you making here? Here's a link to the Van Allen belts on Wiki..there is a section on the Apollo missions.....As I say, Van Allen rebutted all claims that they couldn't be crossed. [Link] Picture of the lander taken from the orbiter that went around a few years back. Edited by Stirlingsays (28 Sep 2017 3.27pm) I'm saying that 8 days is not very long. A longer period of exposure beyond the belt might be more of a problem. Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (28 Sep 2017 7.51pm)
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28 Sep 17 7.48pm

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Originally posted by Stirlingsays

The moon is about two and a half to three days travel away using the system they employed.

What point are you making here?

Here's a link to the Van Allen belts on Wiki..there is a section on the Apollo missions.....As I say, Van Allen rebutted all claims that they couldn't be crossed.

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Picture of the lander taken from the orbiter that went around a few years back.

Edited by Stirlingsays (28 Sep 2017 3.27pm)

I'm saying that 8 days is not very long. A longer period of exposure beyond the belt might be more of a problem.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (28 Sep 2017 7.51pm)

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Hrolf The Ganger 28 Sep 17 7.50pm
Originally posted by Frickin Saweet im imagine how enriched our lives would be if all those clever NASA people dedicated their time to household items, rather than it being a byproduct of pointless space exploration. Then we'd really be lightyears ahead. I bet you prefer Coronation Street to Star Trek don't you.
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Hrolf The Ganger

28 Sep 17 7.50pm

Originally posted by Frickin Saweet

I bet you prefer Coronation Street to Star Trek don't you.

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YT Oxford 28 Sep 17 7.59pm
Originally posted by Ray in Houston You're missing the point. Exploration means that all of these problems can be solved by the continued pushing of our capabilities. For example, the Chinese claim to have built the "impossible" space drive: a fuel-less system that would allow for infinite travel and - more importantly - stopping once you get where you're going, turning around and coming all the way back. Mars, for example, is much, much closer if you can accelerate all the way there and then hammer the brakes once you reach it - avoiding all those complicated gravity slingshots and the like as dramatised in "The Martian". If we decide, "nah, never going to happen" well, it's never going to happen. But, like Mark Watney, you solve one problem and then the next and then the next...until you get to where you want to go and get to come back again (if you want). And North Korea claimed (and maintains) that Kim Jong-Il's first and only round of golf was 38 shots under par, including 11 holes in one. Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)
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Oxford 28 Sep 17 7.59pm

Originally posted by Ray in Houston

You're missing the point. Exploration means that all of these problems can be solved by the continued pushing of our capabilities.

If we decide, "nah, never going to happen" well, it's never going to happen. But, like Mark Watney, you solve one problem and then the next and then the next...until you get to where you want to go and get to come back again (if you want).

And North Korea claimed (and maintains) that Kim Jong-Il's first and only round of golf was 38 shots under par, including 11 holes in one.

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pefwin Where you have to have an English ... 28 Sep 17 8.04pm
Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger I'm saying that 8 days is not very long. A longer period of exposure beyond the belt might be more of a problem. Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (28 Sep 2017 7.51pm) He has googled the wrong thing he has mixed up Cosmic and Solar with the effects of the Van Allen belts. Silly ex-teacher. Shielding or mitigating cosmic /solar radiation is a very significant issue that still needs a decent practical solution. Current idea include: * water shielding, recycled in a close system. * Liquid hydrogen shielding burnt as fuel * Hydrogen based polymer construction, I guess you burn you space ship as you go along. * Active deflection systems * or use of an asteroid as a ship hull, a metallic asteroid I assume. "Everything is air-droppable at least once." "When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."
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Where you have to have an English ... 28 Sep 17 8.04pm

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

I'm saying that 8 days is not very long. A longer period of exposure beyond the belt might be more of a problem.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (28 Sep 2017 7.51pm)

He has googled the wrong thing he has mixed up Cosmic and Solar with the effects of the Van Allen belts. Silly ex-teacher.

Shielding or mitigating cosmic /solar radiation is a very significant issue that still needs a decent practical solution. Current idea include:

* water shielding, recycled in a close system.
* Liquid hydrogen shielding burnt as fuel
* Hydrogen based polymer construction, I guess you burn you space ship as you go along.
* Active deflection systems
* or use of an asteroid as a ship hull, a metallic asteroid I assume.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

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pefwin Where you have to have an English ... 28 Sep 17 8.04pm
Originally posted by YT And North Korea claimed (and maintains) that Kim Jong-Il's first and only round of golf was 38 shots under par, including 11 holes in one. Crazy Golf? "Everything is air-droppable at least once." "When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."
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pefwin

Where you have to have an English ... 28 Sep 17 8.04pm

Originally posted by YT

And North Korea claimed (and maintains) that Kim Jong-Il's first and only round of golf was 38 shots under par, including 11 holes in one.

Crazy Golf?

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

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