Hi Trent. I'm certainly not a leftist, and no longer the mild technologist I was, and my Windows Skynet analogy was actually meant to be serious. The problems I have, in rough chronological order, are
a) corporate malevolence,
b) governmental malevolence (esp by the left) that dwarfs the corporate malevolence,
c) the obvious potential of cascading bugs and other misfires,
and d) introduction of new bugs and misfires, as software
"engineers" these days are so in love with their cleverness that
they often can't even program correctly the basic features in
their apps. And the idiotic "features" written in bloated OOP will
magnify horribly.
How far can disk and memory requirements go when 64bit is no longer enough to address it all?
Since all this requires higher skill levels and constant oversight - of multigenerational code, yet - and may require many man-hours to solve (or resist!) the new issues, I don't see programming jobs going away anytime soon. Or in our lifetimes.
Dystopia isn't necessarily fear-mongering. Spyware. Malware. NSA. Face recognition. Excessive copyright enforcement. The Great Firewall. Corporate/governmental censorship to conform to repressive "moral" standards around the world.
Man creates nothing that men don't ruin, and preserving freedom
and all its benefits will always be a constant battle just as it
always has been. Expecting the worst along with the best is a way
to stay prepared for the next battles. What sci-fi authors have
always done, we're (sorta) doing here. We're looking before we
leap, cause the leap may well be coming.
Trent.A while ago I heard a futurist say that if you wanted your kid to make money in the future, they should pursue a creative career. He expected technology jobs to go the way of manufacturing jobs -- automated out of existence. The up side is that owners of capital will make MUCH higher profits, while consumers of IT will save some money. Also, access to IT should be more democratic since it will not rely as much on left brain thinking and scarce training.Microsoft is hardly alone in trying to make administrators and programmers obsolete, and the repressive leftist politics or dystopian fear mongering strike me as burying the lead--especially if you are a technologist whose job is in the cross-hairs of economic and technical history.
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:34 PM Vara La Fey <varalafey@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh. Joy. A Cortana that can write its own spyware. Windows Skynet. Upgrade today. Or else.
- Vara
- www.facebook.com/vara.lafey
On Mar 9, 2017 11:18 PM, "Victor Odhner" <vodhner@cox.net> wrote:---------------------------------------------------
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On Mar 9, 2017, at 16:59:21, Keith Smith <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
Yep what we need is smart computers. When all this started computers were supposed to create a shorter work week. Now look what we have. Racist computers - LOL!!
On 2017-03-09 15:32, Anon Anon wrote:
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genocidal-tweets-from-ai-chatbot-tay-2016-3
On Mar 9, 2017 15:17, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks@gmail.com>
wrote:
Really? you took this there.--
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Nathan England
<plug-discuss@nmecs.com> wrote:
On 2017-03-09 08:47, Anon Anon wrote:
How long until they teach this one how to create html filled with
explitives and hate speech?
I read this and about died laughing. All I could think of was
someone designing this software to act like any other liberal
online. Write basic html filled with explitives while spouting
hateful intolerant garbage, and it has artifical intelligence, just
like so many of today's liberals (brainwashed university
intellectualism).
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Regards,
Nathan
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