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Jesus Christ. We are helping them with home invasions aren't we? Just how far are they going to take this shit?
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Okay okay, enough of that shit. Have any of you ever used Cloud Computing before? There's a few services for things you can use or you can allow your device to use to help out (protein folding for instance.) There's also video games where you can have a really shitty underpowered device hooked via internet to powerful servers. They allow you to play the heavy resource requiring game on your shitty device because all it needs to do is send control signals out and receive video of the gameplay back to you. You can setup your own thing using a program called, "Splashtop" where you can remotely control a powerful PC with a shitty device to play games or whatever. "Liquidsky" is a service you can use to do the same thing.
Well, there's a shit load of aps and services you can use to do this with. The point here is that it is only limited by bandwidth and latency of the connection between the server and the device. If you've ever used these things before and you have a good connection, you know they are actually pretty damn impressive. I've played several FPS games with them and the lag isn't that much of a problem even against other players (far far better than say the days of FPS over dialup).
So, lets say you have lots of Boston Dynamics' robots all hooked up to a cloud computing service. With that they have unlimited processing power so long as they can connect to the server. Even unconnected, they could have the ability to connect to each other locally and make a distributed network.
How useful would this sort of thing really be? We don't have anything even remotely close to strong AI yet and probably never will; that's sci-fi. But, how far can normal AI really go?
>STAIRS
Jesus Christ. We are helping them with home invasions aren't we? Just how far are they going to take this shit?
>click on all images with
>THOUGHT CRIMES
Okay okay, enough of that shit. Have any of you ever used Cloud Computing before? There's a few services for things you can use or you can allow your device to use to help out (protein folding for instance.) There's also video games where you can have a really shitty underpowered device hooked via internet to powerful servers. They allow you to play the heavy resource requiring game on your shitty device because all it needs to do is send control signals out and receive video of the gameplay back to you. You can setup your own thing using a program called, "Splashtop" where you can remotely control a powerful PC with a shitty device to play games or whatever. "Liquidsky" is a service you can use to do the same thing.
Well, there's a shit load of aps and services you can use to do this with. The point here is that it is only limited by bandwidth and latency of the connection between the server and the device. If you've ever used these things before and you have a good connection, you know they are actually pretty damn impressive. I've played several FPS games with them and the lag isn't that much of a problem even against other players (far far better than say the days of FPS over dialup).
So, lets say you have lots of Boston Dynamics' robots all hooked up to a cloud computing service. With that they have unlimited processing power so long as they can connect to the server. Even unconnected, they could have the ability to connect to each other locally and make a distributed network.
How useful would this sort of thing really be? We don't have anything even remotely close to strong AI yet and probably never will; that's sci-fi. But, how far can normal AI really go?
