The Hemingway Report

Friday, August 4, 2017

What are they drinking in Arizona?

They Make Me Sick

If you recall I was begging Republicans (who owned the House and Senate) for years to appoint a Special Prosecutor for Barry’s myriad of scandals... F&F, IRS, Black Panther voter intimidation, Solyndra, just to name a few. What happened? Nothing! Here we are only 8 fucking months into the Trump administration and we already have Special Prosecutor Mueller and uncover TeaPartier destroyer (Watch this exchange between him and Jim Jordan…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPrUCPTWTAo&ab_channel=JoeSchoffstall) tell me HE HAS ANY FUCKING INTEREST in getting to the bottom of the IRS investigation! And what do we have now? Mueller (Comey’s trusted friend) and a whole crew of Hillary supporters (his staff) chomping at the bit to nail Trump. Think he'll put more 'gusto' into investigating Trump than he did in the IRS investigation? Amazing the WH and both houses owned by Republicans and they sit back and allow this to happen? Meanwhile, Republicans can't smell red meat! Right under their noses...

The Clinton emails

The Clinton Foundation

Selling uranium to Russia

The 'accidental' meeting on the tarmac

Lynch..."Don't call it an investigation call it a matter" line

And we voted for these bastards!

PS:

Imagine if you will, sometime in the near future, the IRS was caught targeting liberal groups based solely on their political beliefs. Do you believe the end result would be the same for Trump as it was for Barry and his accomplices?

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Have visions of the Terminator

Facebook engineers panic, pull plug on AI after bots develop their own language

As the world’s most powerful computer systems begin to embrace artificial intelligence in earnest, using smart algorithms to increase efficiency and speed, the potential damage that a “rogue” AI could cause continues to grow. Many in the tech community have theorized how an artificial mind could turn against its creators, and Facebook just got an interesting lesson in how such a scenario might unfold. Facebook engineers were forced to pull the plug on one of the company’s AI systems after its bots began communicating with each other in a completely new language which humans simply couldn’t decipher.

The AI bots, which were originally programmed to use plain English to communicate with one another, were found to be speaking what appeared to be gibberish. Sentences like “I can can I I everything else” and “Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to,” were being sent back and forth by the AI, and while humans have absolutely no idea what it means, the bots fully understood each other. Without being able to understand how or why the bots were communicating, Facebook had no choice but to shut down the system.

The very obvious danger here is that computers which can communicate with each other using their own language are not only impossible to understand but much more difficult to control. In this case, the bots were not bound by plain language and seemingly developed a more efficient way of communicating with each other, deciding for themselves what was best. It’s both impressive and scary.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is a huge proponent of artificial intelligence and has even clashed with other tech leaders like Elon Musk over his embrace of AI and apparent lack of concern over the theoretical dangers intelligent computers could pose to humanity. After the events of this weekend, perhaps he’ll change his tune a bit.