3 Laughs must come first! Here’s the first laugh for you. Then you have to categorize this video. What is it? Animation? Comedy? AI? Something else? Your cleverest response will get a free book fom me.
I must tell you when I first watched this I laughed until I cried.
Your First Link to the Future
In the previous video we have a variety of robots currently working. All of them remind me of my 1960s scifi reading I Robot in this volume by Isaac Asimov. Does any of this make you fear for the present or the future?
My biggest fear is the use of robots in war and terrorism. I can envision these robots with guns and ammo programmed to kill people. Soon. Today. Let me know what you think.
3 Laughs – Your Second
Maybe some of you think racing lawnmowers and world speed records for lawnmowers are perfectly serious topics and not suitable for laughing. Tell me why. in this link
Your Second Link to the Future
Continuing my computer theme, the next article focuses on AI, artificial intelligence. I never heard of ‘Generative Adversarial Neworks (GAN)’ before, so I had to read this article.
My quick summary:
- AI = a network of computers that learn patterns from raw data. That’s the ‘N’.
- Adversarial – One AI network pitted against another.
- Generative – The two AI networks work together, one to train the other, correcting it if it doesn’t achieve the goal. A little-discussed aspect of these learning networks is that training them is quite hard and involves enormous amounts of data and a LOT of time. Using an AI to train an AI in something like facial recognition speeds up the process to light speed and vastly improves the quality of the results.
- GAN – Two AI networks solve the problem of time and money in training an AI network to do a task.
What tasks would you like to train AI to do? Maybe link it with a robotic soldier to recognize a civilian versus an enemy soldier versus a fellow soldier? How about how to drive in snow and slush? I know a lot of people who don’t know how to do that yet. Let me know your thoughts. I’ll give each of you who responds a free short story.
3 Laughs – Your Third Laugh
In case that’s not funny enough for you (or not funny at all), here’s a backup joke next:
Still not laughing? Here’s my last, desperate attempt at humor.
Your 3 Laughs are over, but we’ve got one more link to the future, the last video.
Admit it. Isn’t this the space travel future you imagined as a kid?
I grew up as a child of the space age in the 60s, reading science fiction, following NASA space flights, and studying astronomy and physics. I dreamed of becoming a science fiction author and finally am one. You can find my books here:
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