Hi how are you?
Im good, how are you?
I am doing great long time no see?
Yes! Sorry about leaving the chat earlier. I accidentally hit the back button on my phone :(
oh haha i forgive you I don't remember what we left off talking about?
Oh, why thank you. :) And it might have been computer voting or marvel theories or phones Or something
oh i think it was probably computer voting
But hey, i found out what the chit chat challenge is for
what is it for?
To make conversation bots, basically, like alexa and cortana and siri, and things like that Or something of the sort
Oh yeah I have actually talked to them about it in person it is fascinating they haven't started to get it working yet but they hope to have it working in the next month or so I believe
Really?!?!?! Oh my gosh!!! What else do you know about it?
They are going to try and integrate it with alexa it is part of a competition and we are helping them to win by giving them data if they create a bot that can hold a conversation for 20 minutes straight we win 1000000 for byu
Ooh! Do you know how this info is gonna work with alexa Holy cow!!! Thats a long time!
they are going to be using a neural network to process the data to teach a computer algorithm how to speak to people about diverse subjects so whatever we talk about it can talk aboiut that is why they want us to have interesting conversations
Haha. That means alexa will learn to talk about this
yep hahaha
Just imagine talking to alexa, then she starts talking about this research
yeah that would be funny she would be talking about herself kind of arrogant if you ask me haha
Quite arrogant, but also probably a little funny Almost like what i imagine a chicken would act like, in a way
a chicken? why a chicken?
They just seem like theyre arrogant. Dumb, but arrogant, and theyre funny
hahaha kind of cocky i guess
Hahaha Was that a pun If intentional, how punny of you If not, still
yeah it was a pun haha do you like puns or are they too cheesy?
I Love puns! The cheesier the better
thats great haha
Theyre all gouda
I hear that some people are annoyed by them haha gouda one
My sister hates puns, and thank you :)
hahaha why does she hate them do you know? Did she just have a really bad experience?
I make them too often for one, and then maybe just the ha ha ha after each pun i say. Idk for sure
Hahaha thats ok How long do you think it will be before computers are doing half of our work for us?
I think they already kind of are, tbh
yeah you have a good point what we dont realize is that computers took over our universe long ago and most of our economy relies upon them to this day
It totally does!!! Nearly every, if not all, jobs have some form of a computer
yeah i agree
Do you think theres any job that doesnt? Like actual job, not little kid lemonade stand job
What do you think about the recent developments in self driving car technology? I have heard about google and uber investing in it. Would you trust one to drive you around safely? hmmm I think there probably is but it is probably not as high profile take mowing lawns for example or doing house cleaning but there is obviously some sort of person running the business at the top who has to do all the accounting work and what not on a computer
I dont think id trust a self driving car I can barely stand to let my sister or my mom drove me around, let alone the car doing it by itself And those are good examples
hahaha thats true I heard that their crash rate is almost as low as a humans and it is going even lower so it appears that pretty soon a self driving car will be safer to ride in than mos manned cars
Wow.
and if all cars were self driving then there wouldn't be any accidents all the accidents were cause by real drivers not the software they have driven 5 million miles so far
I just dont trust fully their inability to be hacked. I mean, processing light changes, other cars on the road, like, what if it glitches or something?
yeah did you hear about the tesla car that ran off the road and crashed into the barrier? It wasn't intended to be used as a self driving mechanism but the driver decided to do it anyway and it resulted in his death
No, but dang. Thats insane. And intense.
Have you read about elon musk and all of the crazy things he is investing in?
Not really, but now im intrigued. Telp me more?
Have you heard of space X? It is a company he is investing in that is based off of building rockets that don't just launch but can return out of orbit and land fully intact in that way they can be launched over and over and over again saving the company tons of money and giving them a competitive advantage when it comes to sending satellites to s space so his end goal is actually to build a colony on mars
Thats GENIUS!!! At least the first part. The mars thing, well, there is a lot that needs to be done to accomplish that
and in the process i believe that he intends to build one on the moon first as a sort of service station yeah he has been working on it for years and apparently they have made several major advances in making the colony sustainable and being able to grow food on the planet it seems possible look up mars one I believe that is what the initiative is called It doesn't seem reasonable as there isn't anything on mars that we need but it would definitely change the way the world views space travel and I think that is his point
It would definitely change the way people saw space travel. Basically from 1 in a million to going to your neighbors or a friends house
yeah he plans to make the trip to mars as cheap as 200,000 a person which is a huge leap considering it would cost billions using todays technology
Holy cow!!! That could mean some people could take the trip with only a 2 year salary (if they get paid enough and never spend it)