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It’s serving the will of prudes, religious fruitcakes, inattentive parents, the technologically illiterate, and anyone dumb enough to be taken in by the “think of the children!” Rhetoric of the control-freaks.

Unfortunately this is a rather large constituency.

You’ll note that I was asked.

This is going to be one of those “Torment Nexus” things, I take it?

Quite true.

Well, I guess the most games-oriented thing is that at the moment I’m generating some cover art for some music I generated earlier to use as part of a tabletop roleplaying campaign I’m in. Custom art, custom music, stuff that a few years ago would have cost me thousands of dollars to commission (and therefore that I would never have dreamed of commissioning - it’s just for me and a couple of friends). That’s pretty awesome, IMO.

As long as it isn’t in AI

Afraid I can’t help you, then.

It’s really quite ironic, this is the sort of tech that science fiction has been dreaming of for decades. And now it can’t even be mentioned in tech-oriented forums, can’t even be hinted at, without mobs of negative-nellies dumping on it.

Ah well. I continue to have fun with it, downvotes can’t stop that.

Ironically, there are a couple of things in the tech world right now that I’m extremely interested in. But you would likely downvote me if I mentioned them.

That’s the website, not ENS itself. ENS is a smart contract running on Ethereum, access to it cannot be disabled without shutting down Ethereum as a whole.

I know blockchains aren’t popular in some parts, but this sort of thing is exactly what ENS is for. They could buy a domain name there that could never be “taken away” by any outside authority, to serve as an ultimate fallback.

When the regular controller of the car - be it human, another AI, whatever - isn’t sending control signals, then the onboard controller knows that the car is uncontrolled. Of course it’s a “failure scenario”, I’m suggesting that this chip would be ideal for picking up when that sort of thing happens. The alternative is to just fall over.

I, too, am not sure what you’re arguing. I suggested that a low-power high-speed AI chip like this would be ideal for putting in robots, which have power constraints and aren’t always in reliable contact with outside controllers. That’s a very broad “niche” indeed. I don’t know what all this landmine stuff or probabilities of brake-slamming is all about or how it relates to what I suggested.

I have no idea what you’re thinking the scenario is here. The alternative is an uncontrolled car, I think I’d rather it had at least some brains behind the decisions it’s making.

Why doesn’t it work in those contexts? It’s better than nothing in those contexts too. I’d rather have a car with onboard intelligence to take over than an uncontrolled one.

I think you’re letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, here. There are plenty of situations where you don’t need a robot to behave perfectly. People don’t behave perfectly.

To what tasks could you set a bot that does stuff with minimal competence let’s say 90% of the time, and the other 10%, doesn’t create even bigger problems?

Sounds like a typical human to me.

A chip like this would be perfect for an autonomous robot. Drone, humanoid, whatever - something that still needs to be able to handle itself when it’s cut off from outside control. Always nice to have an internet connection to draw on a bigger, more capable “brain” somewhere else, but if that connection is lost you want it to be able to carry on with whatever it’s doing and not just flop over limply.

Five years from now, AI will still need humans who understand what it cannot: why a system was built a certain way, what trade-offs were made, where the edge cases live that no training data covers.

Unless, perhaps, AI five years from now understands that too.

All of this current change has happened over fewer years than that. Hard to predict when it will slow back down again.

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