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    Nothing specific, but I'm getting a little knot in my stomach seeing how much activity there appears to be around 'deep learning' development.

    With nVidia GPUs/CoProcessors offering ridiculous amounts of processing capability to users and off-site processing in 'the cloud' potentially offering almost infinite capacity to mere mortals, I'm kind of a boggled by potential.

    Granted, we're going to see some seriously cool shit over the next 5 years. After that is what worries me. What when we take this, and its descendents, for granted?

    AIFacebook2025 is going to have me moving to The Falklands.

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    • tl;dr - Benn and me think the sky is fallingdetritus
    • You can tell how old i am by my need to stick 'the cloud' in single quotes.
      *grumble*      detritus
    • When I say 'activity' I mean by dopes like us - schlubs on the ground, not just corporations. Smarter schlubs than I, granted, but schlubs nonetheless.detritus
    • We are on the verge of Kondratieff's 6th cycle
      https://mappalicious…      drgs
    • like industrial revolution, AI will displace a large number of service/office jobs, but its nothing to be afraid of, gross world product will stay the samedrgs
    • we will be producing more with less human input, 30 working hours per week etc, humanity will enter a golden age
      driverless cars are already predicted by 2020      drgs
    • Let's hope, eh? Elsewise the 1% could become the 0.1%, could become the 0.01% and then we're in a technomedieval serf nightmare.detritus
    • What I mean </^ Here is the low level shipping of quite powerful tech to all and everyone — in the digital realm and, increasingly, the physical, with robotics.detritus
    • Example, with your example in mind:
      http://www.bloomberg…      detritus
    • Thanks for 'Kondratieff Cycle'. hadn't come across that.detritus
    • wouldn't it be crazy if our purpose here is to assemble the universe's most powerful brainscarabin
    • i want it to happen. 80% of things I do at my job are stupid anywaydrgs
    • the other 20% are qbndrgs
    • hahaha drgsdetritus
    • well, 'chuckles earnestly', not 'hahaha'.detritus
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