tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post6416667790391098099..comments2024-03-28T04:08:45.199-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Er... um... Skynet, anyone?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-51770018089216515622016-04-05T08:33:50.170-05:002016-04-05T08:33:50.170-05:00Wow on the comments...
Ibm thru layoffs and outso...Wow on the comments...<br /><br />Ibm thru layoffs and outsourcing to India has seeded a 100k presence in the tech industry that hates their guts. <br /><br />I would not buy ibm stock. Seems they are caught in a vicious cycle of stock buy backs and cutting costs.<br /><br />Another anonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-105777312290436762016-04-04T14:05:31.100-05:002016-04-04T14:05:31.100-05:00We just need to make sure the computer is modeled ...We just need to make sure the computer is modeled on the *correct* brain: http://www.earljwoods.com/2012/02/supermans-birthday.html<br /><br />You'll have to scroll down a bit for the story.jabrwokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14537636497352864636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-52340556307692534572016-04-04T09:31:42.496-05:002016-04-04T09:31:42.496-05:00Anyone who can write "Old businesses like mai...Anyone who can write "Old businesses like mainframes and midrange systems are giving way to cloud, analytics, mobile, social, and security" with a straight face is a fool or a shill.Akatsukamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02728195684558703059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-57594205986767920062016-04-04T06:06:02.946-05:002016-04-04T06:06:02.946-05:00I for one welcome our future computer overlords.I for one welcome our future computer overlords.Toastridernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-34578740454689541942016-04-04T05:59:03.999-05:002016-04-04T05:59:03.999-05:00TureNorth is, indeed, a step toward "Skynet ...TureNorth is, indeed, a step toward "Skynet Lite." Which is inevitable, depending on one's definition of 'Skynet Lite" (mine is NSA-style overview on steroids but feel free to pick your own). <br /><br />As for IBM, its best hope is purchase by someone who understands what IBM's value is and restructures business operations to support and enhance that value. IBM was built as a sales organization with what was considered a somewhat less important manufacturing back end added to provide goods for the sale force to sell. For several decades it constituted T.J. Watson's Masterpiece, and Watson Jr. did yeoman's work maintaining it when his father retired. <br /><br />Toward the end of Watson Jr.s tenure the world began changing and that change accelerated as technology developed and that tech was pushed downward into the lower levels of businesses. IBM was addicted to revenue from "big iron" - the profit from mainframes is absolutely incredible, especially when there's almost no competition in that market segment - and not only was the transition from mainframes to (much) cheaper broad-based technology barely managed at all, what little management attention it did garner was mismanagement because the corporate culture didn't' believe in it and consequently not only didn't support it but actively attacked it. <br /><br />The "great stuff" we've seen in recent years from IBM - chess master Deep Blue, Jeopardy winning "Watson," and now TrueNorth - is the result of IBM's Watson Research Center in Yorktown, N.Y., coupled with the Advanced Technology Center at the East Fishkill, N.Y. manufacturing facility and a couple of very small groups in Poughkeepsie, and maybe some input from the very bright minds at San Jose. <br /><br /><i>That</i> is the core value of today's IBM and it's going to take a visionary from well outside the company to preserve and develop it because no one inside the IBM cult understands it. Inconsiderate Bastardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-80089927542671551942016-04-04T05:41:10.235-05:002016-04-04T05:41:10.235-05:00Even a thoroughly likable aware computer, Mike of ...Even a thoroughly likable aware computer, Mike of "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress," made possible a kinetic energy attack on the earth.<br /><br /> John in Phillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196033252818387245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-84538068879943166162016-04-04T03:03:45.958-05:002016-04-04T03:03:45.958-05:00"Cognitive computing"?
Is that the New..."Cognitive computing"? <br /><br />Is that the Newspeak term for "Artificial Intelligence"?<br />Sendariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286039362709773644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-47729780989888841132016-04-03T22:09:39.375-05:002016-04-03T22:09:39.375-05:00Skynet? I was thinking W.O.P.R (War Operations Pl...Skynet? I was thinking W.O.P.R (War Operations Plan Response) "an endless series of wargames" They'll keep control, but keep it there at the top "where it belongs" That's the ticket.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsycWRQrc8JK Brownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-87106804429115852912016-04-03T20:15:21.200-05:002016-04-03T20:15:21.200-05:00Simulators are only as good as the scientists and ...Simulators are only as good as the scientists and programmers who design the simulator.<br />Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-9106629255535736512016-04-03T18:47:11.466-05:002016-04-03T18:47:11.466-05:00I wonder if the backdoor is "Joshua"?I wonder if the backdoor is "Joshua"?TheAxehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04328271483659507053noreply@blogger.com