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BTW I’d love to have a chat with that Google Duplex. Would be interesting to see how it reacts to random comments like “what is the perfect amount of bacon for a bacon batty” or “what did you have for tea last night”.
Good point Duke. Normally I’m a bit more sceptical about such videos but he looked so genuine I bought it without questioning.
Just as creepy but real:
I seen a similar news report earlier. The sumer was, “the whole world knows about the Douma gas attack, except those in Douma”. Although we do have to be careful that this is Russian news, just as we should any EU US news.
It’s Russian news but the video they are examining is not Russian. If the attack had happened then we would be seeing videos of the actual attack, they would not be making a fake video. They would only make a fake video if the attack did not happened. And this video sure as hell looks fake. But then I haven’t seen any counter debunking. Maybe they can be proved wrong.
Russia debunking the chemical attack. I’m no expert but the video looks very convincing.
What we don’t have yet is self thinking.
Self-thinking is what I think of when I hear “AI”. I think we should be safe from the AI as long as it’s not self-thinking.
Google’s cloud has been selflearning image recognition for years now, and it’s now very good indeed.
Duke, I really doubt Google’s cloud is self-learning image recognition. Surely it’s just some code and scripts or algorithms and what not with all the user data thrown into the mix running on those servers and adding its own resulting data to this mix the way it was programmed to do?
Just like in the Ed’s post, it’s all very complex sounding but at the end of the day all that complexity is man made and whatever data is inputted into the computer it still is just a very big number of electric impulses being created by the input from sensors and then it runs through the circuits in a predetermined way. If you really think about it words intelligence or autonomousness should not be used in computers. And in Ed’s examples the answer “who knows” is only because the machine wasn’t made to make a backup copy of every input it received from the sensors. But with a backup of all the data it senses there would be no mystery.
Just watched a couple videos on YT regarding the bombing of Syria. The US say they destroyed this and that and it was a success. The Russians say most of the missiles where shot down. The only place that did get hit was some disused laboratory. Zero civilian or military casualties and no Russian posts were attacked. The US provided no details just keep saying classified, the Russians gave a detailed account of every single location that was targeted, what aircraft and ships were involved, how many missiles were fired/destroyed and what was hit. I think I’ll just ignore both sides say.
I saw some Russian military dude on YouTube maybe a couple of weeks ago saying that any attack on the bases where they have Russian advisers (or soldiers, not sure) will be answered with force. And he added that it will not be bases in Syria but the carriers from where the attacks came from. Since I don’t watch the news I don’t know if that bluff has been called yet or not. But I thought it was interesting. If the US do bomb those locations would they actually retaliate or is it just empty words. If they do retaliate things could potentially get quite nasty.
link CNN raised the first lot of major question marks. CNN report
After reading this I’d say it doesn’t look like a conspiracy to me. I suppose because the Policeman was poisoned too things were taken more seriously. It was days until serious action was taken which indicates that there was no advanced knowledge of the incident. Though the entire story is fishy indeed.
I haven’t watched any news only heard snippets here and there and frankly I have no sympathy for any spy. But what I find curious is why that spy is not dead? Do any of you guys know the sequence of events after he collapsed on the bench? The expected sequence of events in my opinion would be as follows – he collapses, an ambulance is called, he gets taken to the hospital, if he is not dead yet they take blood samples to do tests and do whatever it is they do to keep him alive. Now the question is how long would it take them to find out that it was the Novichock poison? Hours? Days? Never? Lets say they found out within hours. Only at that point would the action be taken – men in “space suits” called, Police informed which in turn would inform secret services and the government. Do any of you guys know how long after Skripal collapsed men in “space suits” arrived at the scene? If they arrived immediately then that would indicate a conspiracy. But if not then the conspiracy is much less likely.
I think this is it although it has the same image as the video above so may be the same.
What you linked is a full documentary. Very interesting, watching it now.
That was my thoughts, find a common denominator. But to be honest I have no idea what it could be. Those are the faults I’m reading from my dash: DBC Dynamic Brake Control Brake Assist Failed, Runflat Indicator Failed, Reset Clock,
Brake and Stability Systems Failure, Fuel Pump Malfunction. I’m just googling for post that had the same errors all at once and looking at their solutions.There was a documentary about it some time back on discovery or 5 or Yesterday maybe. I believe it’s still on catch up somewhere.
Will have to find it. A nice bit of mystery there 🙂
The fact that the OBD port has stopped working is real issue in my book. Since it appeared to work when the problems started, but stopped as the problems built up suggests the me a major issue with power circulation. ECUs can and do fail, I would check to see if there is someone in your area who could check it over for you if all else fails. While I used the term ‘major issue‘, because the effect is deadly, it could be as simple as an earth, a bad connection or a damaged wire, all of which will cause major grief until they are found. As you have done things, could it be that for example something needs to be reset? Frankly, we are all guessing wildly and I strongly feel the this one for a good auto-sparks, who knows the ways of the model
The OBD port wasn’t working from the start when the RAC arrived. But it is now. Sort of. I’ve just put everything back together and the car is cranking but won’t start. I get 13 error codes. But of course it will most likely have one source. No way so many things went wrong while parked at work. I’ll try troubleshooting the crankshaft sensor as it often comes up in forums with non starting and fault lights on dash like what I have. If that fails a good auto sparky will be required as the rest is just way too complicated for me.
I don’t think there is another relay like that in my car, I test every one I could find and they all were your usual basic relays. I should have ordered one days ago. Some £20 in this scenario is small change, and it’s good to have a spare one as they are a known failure risk. But with the other stuff going on and work I just didn’t think of it…
@Richard, a few days ago my BMW refused to start and threw up loads of codes. RAC couldn’t figure out what’s wrong and towed me home. I googled the error codes on my dash and there were a lot of stories where dealers replaced ££££ worth of stuff (ECUs, fuel pumps, hydraulic pumps, various sensors, etc.) and in many cases it turned out to be that blue relay that costs like £20 or so. But sometimes there were other issues – bad battery, rusty cables in battery compartment due to water, bad B+ cable connection to the fuse box, crankshaft sensor, camshaft sensor and so on. I’m not very knowledgeable in cars but I should be able to check those things one by one. Had the battery out and checked all cables. No problems with the cables but the battery test with my new fancy battery charger said my battery is only 60% so I bought a new one. Had the fuse box out to check the B+ connection but no problems there either as my car has the older (better) connection. Also checked all relays and fuses. All good. This blue relay resides next to the ECU and is my final check before I try to start the car again with the new battery. Also will have to check the ground connection for the ECU but that should be easy. Unfortunately it’s raining so I don’t want to open the ECU box to put that relay back in.
And I do have a laptop which can read error codes through the OBD port but that connection stopped working too. Even the RAC couldn’t get connected.
And if after these check it still is not starting I’ll have to start looking into various sensors that could be the culprit.
I think I’ve figured it out. I connected 30 to “+” on the battery and 85 to “-” which makes the circuit connect. It also makes both 87s directly connected to “+” on the battery? I then tested each 87 against “-” on the battery (multimeter set to 20v and the black probe on the battery “-” and the red probe on the 87). Both 87s read about 12v. It looks to me like this test should be good or am I wrong?
If my image search is correct it’s called a DME Relay.
My car won’t start and on forums people say that replacing this blue relay might fix the problem. I was doing other tests (battery and fuse box areas) and forgot to order one.
So I did this test but I have no idea if that’s a valid test. Me no speak electricity. On BMW forums someone is telling me this test is not good and tells me what to do but as far as I can tell what he is telling me is exactly the same as what I did….
Real time view of all the stuff in earth orbit. link
Didn’t know about that one. Looks very interesting. Will have to do some exploration in space 🙂
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