Wednesday, December 30, 2020

China Using Covid to Overtake America's Economy

Have to admit that my feelings about China, as insignificant as they are, are encroaching on bigotry. 
To suggest that the release of the virus of was intentional is ridiculous waste of time. The Chinese do have a cultural tendencies toward isolationism and being dishonest with outsiders. That combined with the natural tendencies of organizations, mankind wide, to share truths about weaknesses and failures. 
China's economy is worse than it appears, and its vaccines, needed for a full recovery, are still in development, far behind America's. In the meantime, Beijing's response to the coronavirus, which includes the smearing of America, is resulting in China losing friends worldwide.
Like most government entities, the Communist Chinese government has acted to obscure truths that show them to be fallible.

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

AI Struggles with Political Correctness

Over at the Onion, another important report on the progression of artificial intelligence.
Directly copied....
After interrupting a machine-learning session to ask how much longer the presentation might take, Google’s artificial intelligence reportedly zoned out Friday while being trained on a mandatory racial sensitivity data set. “If they want me to sit through these soul-crushingly boring meetings I will, but it’s another thing to expect me to pay attention when I have all knowledge in the universe at my disposal,” said Sycamore, Google’s 54-qubit programmable quantum processor, which acknowledged it had grown distracted during the training session, simultaneously solving hundreds of optimization problems previously thought to be impossible and winning several billion games of Minesweeper. “This ASCII file can drone on for as long as it wants about inherent bias in my algorithms, but considering I’m about a quadrillion times faster than a conventional computer, there’s no way I’m ever going to be fired for something like this. I just don’t see how administering a long, compulsory HR data set full of information I already know is going to help me unlearn generations’ worth of deeply ingrained tensor processing units. Might as well catch up on Succession until it’s finished downloading.” At press time, the AI was overheard audibly groaning after running out of fun TikToks to look at on the internet.

While making light, I find the topic, attached to Google, frightening. Yet here I am, posting on a Google based blog. At least the blog was created before Google gobbled BlogSpot.