p.s, If computers are alive, bugs cannot be ironed out, find one solution, and another problem will pop up endlessly, its called adaption on part of the computer. Computers will never be safe.
Very clever Griff. There are alarming differences though. The computer kill rate is almost genocidal. Trains are just boiling kettles, or mechanical behemoths, its not hard to control, fix, or predict. Computers are a new horizon, to pretend like the Boeing engineers, that it AI is safe is nonsense.
You are right though that we need to progress, but not at the expense of airliners smashing into the ground nose first. The pace of trust and progress is too quick.
Steven Hawking etc says that mankind wiill be under threat from AI. Whether or not thats true or not is not known until we understand more about consciousness. I doubt if consciousness can exist in a computer, no matter how advanced, but then again who knows. If consciousness can exist in a computer, then god help us all.
There is a theory that i hold to is that consciousness cannot be created, that all things are alive to some extent or another. If that is the case, computers are alive.
p.s, If computers are alive, bugs cannot be ironed out, find one solution, and another problem will pop up endlessly, its called adaption on part of the computer. Computers will never be safe.
Could it get any more exciting than this? No, don’t all speak at once, of course it can’t. Am I deceived? Has the long time leader, recently deposed, now risen back to the top or is this dust in my eyes? Grief, Howoldboy, where did that come from, and in a week when new leader Pete slipped up, and I mean BADLY. And now only one point between the top three! Howoldboy and Buc each got eleven, Pete only got one. Also, in two weeks Buc has risen from 12th to 5th which is some going. Well done to the pair of you.
AussieBranch and Piglet failed to show, even though they had an extra two days to enter. It must be an age thing. AussieBranch was the biggest move - down three - while Psaw failed to deliver his threat to rush up the table, instead ending in a four-in-a-bed scenario with Altobelli, Cayambe and Crusha, a situation that these latter three are advised to avoid lasting too long.
Frank, seriously, if you’re going away I’ll put the selection for next week up quickly. If you can’t wait, do what others do and leave me a few guesses. Or are you too computer-averse that you won’t spend a few minutes posting while you’re away? Same applies to anyone.
Oh, and here’s a reminder....
TWO
WEEKS
LEFT
1 Howoldboy...............(11) 231
2= Pete.......................(1) 230
2= NZBlue...................(7) 230
4 Mullen......................(8) 218
5 Buc........................(11) 217
6 Piglet..................(dne1) 213
7 Acido.......................(9) 211
8 Griff.........................(7) 210
9 AussieBranch.......(Dne1) 208
10= Altobelli................(3) 203
10= Cayambe..............(4) 203
10= Crusha.................(7) 203
10= Psaw....................(4) 203
14 Southblue...............(7) 201
15= Alf.......................(7) 194
15= Chalky.................(7) 194
17 Gaz.......................(4) 193
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EOB.............................(1) 82
Checks appreciated
Nice to see the Acid man move back up to 7th place, isnt it eh Griff.
Come on Acido, and more importantly... come on Barnsley.
Your check is in the post Griff!
Well I doubt that I'm going to get ahead of Frank so my aim is not to finish bottom and have the wooden spoon presented to either gaz or alf
Ah but Frank says he’s not entering next week, Chalky, so fill yer boots.
Aussiebranch was busy doing his best Beyonce impression
Blimey, is his butt THAT big?
He was putting a ring on it