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I thought I had ‘fixed’ the Windows Photo hog in an earlier post but I found to my horror it was still sneaking in and stealing 50% of my cpu and file i/o capacity. Maybe it behaves nicely with average systems but it certainly does not with a vm.

In order to emasculate this rogue app, I have found that you need to disable background processing. You may also like to do the same for any other potential hogs.

1.Go to Privacy Settings

2. Go to the Background apps sidebar item.

3.Look for Photos in the list.

4.Flip the switch to Off (for ever!)

5. Restart your computer.

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Incidentally do not be tempted if you see Gates and Branson using AI for trading, especially if it carries a Bitcoin cachet.

Gates quote: “Gates also suggested that investing in the sector is a bad idea: “I think the speculative wave around ICOs and cryptocurrencies is super risky”.

Branson quote “Sir Richard Branson has warned that criminals are using his name to dupe people into buying fake investments.”

Caveat Emptor!

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As you say, Richard, believe what fits your conceptions or preconceptions. All I know is that lawyers are trained to lie on behalf of their clients, so anyone who is taken in by a legally trained politician (119 of our 650 MPs) deserves all that they get!

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I mentioned chaos theory earlier in the thread as being one reason why it was difficult to understand the output from neural networks. Remarkably Quanta magazine reports that AI has been able to make future predictions of chaotic behaviour. link

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Unfortunately the world is awash with disinformation from both Russia and the West. With modern methods for image manipulation none or all of what we see may be real. Imo the best test is “Does it consistently hang together without raising other questions; and if so, who stands to benefit”?

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Best wishes for a speedy recovery, but no playing around with the 18 inch zip!

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“However Russias main purpose in Syria isn’t the bases.”

Sorry to pick up on an old point. While maybe their Mediterranean naval base is not the main reason for their support, it is still a major reason for them wanting to stay. Russia’s navy is blocked in by the easily controlled Dardanelles and they have  similar choke points in getting out of their northern bases. Vladivostok has winter ice problems which really only leaves the Med as an all-seasons open access Blue Water port. Even the Chinese have better Blue Water facilities.

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Thanks PM – I needed a SSD drive for my School Pi Project but the one I thought was spare had gone where old drives go to die.

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You can add to the above Facebook’s people manipulation AI. Just think what happens if some nutters subvert that system! link

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In addition to your fears Steve, there are also how-to articles on how to hack and subvert learning systems by feeding in malign data.

You only have to think about when Microsoft released their AI chatbot to the public. It took just hours for it to turn into a raving racist misogynist. link It probably says more about the destructive side of human nature than anything else.

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Sometimes the keys slightly obstruct one another when you reinsert them. I would see if I could figure out which keys are obstructing and prise off these and then reinsert. Failing that if the keys are ‘sprung’ it could be that the spacebar spring is slightly out of place, though that sort of mechanical setup is unusual for a laptop. If it is a ‘pad/springy button’ contact prise off the spacebar and see if it has got displaced away from its contact point on the key.

Well done for the repair, it looks like you only need to do a bit of fiddling to finish it off.

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Fantastic news!?

I tried to find a hoorah or cheers icon but I got this one which I guess is clapping and not ‘the clap’!

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I think Steve was implying ‘self directing’ in that currently AI only acts within set parameters. If ever AI systems link up and become self directing then they could be truly God-like, not something I think humanity could tolerate though Musk seems to think we are on a slippery path to that fate. Vanity Fair Article

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By coincidence news of a new quality of life AI decision-maker came out last week. This detects a disease of the eye and can be used for diagnosis by unqualified people – though of course the medical mafia do not abdicate their control. However, this one produces verifiable results so while the software is designed to be autonomous it can at least be audited to see if it produces the correct answers.

“… This means that the technology can be used by a nurse or doctor who’s not an eye specialist, making diagnosis more accessible. For example, patients wouldn’t need to wait for an eye specialist to be available to get a diagnosis. ”

However it is yet another job at risk!

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Just to throw another spanner at the dystopian future, Quartz muses that AI could be used to judge morality. Just imagine coupling that up with a mechanical RoboCop — ‘Excuse me sir, it looks like you have offended MY moral code, your penalty is immediate termination!’.

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Wish they put a bit more AI in your spell checker Steve and not just a dictionary. I guess you hit an ‘F’ and the AI thought that ‘kind’ was a much better match than ‘king’ ?

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Out of interest what does slmgr /dlv in the command prompt show?

Does it make any real difference if it is a Volume MAK key?

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AI also does a whole lot of regression analysis on the Big Data so sometimes it comes up with better answers that humans miss. Putting aside life and death decisions, even in the mundane world of business, AI is a bit of a problem not only is it extremely difficult to audit it may even be so much better than a human that ethics and other questions come up. This is especially true when AI is used to buy/sell on the margin in microsecond programmed trading. All sorts of questions can be raised as this article proves.

But the really big fear is that AI will allow Kate Perry and  the ‘Illuminati‘ of the world to control even more of the world’s wealth because they will not need human minions to do things, not even bodyguards! (see wealth distribution)?

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Dave’s face recognition is a good example of why we can only know in general terms why a given output results.  e.g. asking what part of an image made it yield the actual lost child as an answer is a valid question, but you will not get an exact answer – just a best guess.

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“… and then it runs through the circuits in a predetermined way”

Sorry your comment is incorrect. Even knowing exactly what the inputs are only helps ‘understand’ for that specific case as each of the hidden layers changes its weighting factor depending on circumstances. Yes it is probably deterministic up to a point, but it can still flip to a totally different answer as a result of just minute changes.As there are a huge number of interacting factors it is practically impossible to say exactly why the program chooses a given output. In addition, when you feed in more training data the whole thing can flip in fairly dramatic ways (bit like feeding in the uniform and insignia of the enemy when all of a sudden it will stop shooting Joe!)

Possibly the unpredictable pattern flipping you get from chaos theory is a better explanation, or predicting the impact on the path of a hurricane that results from the mythical flapping of a butterfly’s wing.

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