krazybig's comments

The question of how AI will integrate with our society and economy is a fascinating one. We often make the mistake of assuming that an AI will be similar to a human just faster or smarter, but that misses some of the key distinctions of an AI versus biological intelligence.

One of the most striking is the ability to radically alter the substrate and operation of an AI system.

Because of the emergent nature of intelligence, I suspect that many AI instances will be raised like children, tested and validated for specific environments and then large portions of their consciousness could be frozen to prevent divergence of their operational modes. AI systems could also incorporate self-auditors, semi-independent AIs which have been raised to monitor the activities of the primary control AIs. Just as we involve checks and balances in corporate or national governance, many AIs may be composite entities with a variety of instances optimized for different roles.

This will be desirable since you may not want a general AI intelligence acting as a butler or chauffeur. Do you really want them to be able to develop and evolve independently?

Of course this just scratches the surface. AI will take in us in directions we can not dream of today.

The changes only apply to the two lowest tiers. Standard changed from 10 down/1 up to 15 down/1up. Turbo changed from 15 down/2 up to 20 down/2 up.

This article is factually inaccurate. Time Warner is rolling this change out across the country, not just in the Kansas City area.

Here's the announcement from December: http://www.twcableuntangled.com/2012/12/we-are-boosting-down...

Frankly, Time Warner needs to increase their internet speeds to keep up with LTE. I have one of the higher speed options and my LTE speeds are about twice what I experience on my Time Warner connection.

Google should consider adding an option to lock your account access based on IP range or even a geo-located area based on IP address. There are some challenges to geo-locating IPs, and this wouldn't stop a determined hacker, but it could foil a significant number of attacks.

They also might want to provide some reporting for users to know when their account was accessed or attempted to be accessed and from where.