Posted by Dustin
on June 20, 2017
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Facebook has AI bots teach themselves to negotiate
Posted by Dustin
on June 20, 2017
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Along the way they start using their own new language.
Much to the surprise of the researchers, the dialog agents started negotiating in an entirely new language when they were left to converse without human attention.
When placed in front of humans (online) who didn’t know who they were chatting with, an agent matched negotiation skills of humans along with English as fluent that the people were left unsuspecting about its existence.

Facebook’s AI Started Speaking Its Own Language And Negotiating Like Humans
Short Bytes: Researchers at Facebook trained their AI bot which they call ‘dialog agent’ to negotiate like humans and even converse in natural English language to
I got tired of my USB hub being on my desk
Posted by Dustin
on June 17, 2017
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It just slides around when I try to plug it in and leaves cords sprawled across the desk.
So…I opened the case, which splits into a top and bottom half. I screwed the top half to the bottom of my desk, then put it back together.
Now the ports are right where I want them, I don't have to hold the hub with one hand while plugging something in with the other, and it just makes a lot less clutter on top of my desk.

Rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun wrote a 1952 sci-fi story about the colonization…
Posted by Dustin
on June 14, 2017
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Rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun wrote a 1952 sci-fi story about the colonization of Mars, in which the Martian government was led by a President called “the Elon”.
(another interesting thing taken from Scott Alexander's always interesting link posts: http://w4t.pw/3x)
Wernher von Braun: Mars Expedition as seen in 1952 — Steemit
Wernher von Braun – inventor of Nazi V-2 rockets and father of US Apollo program wrote this book in 1952. This is… by busser
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