I don't know how to add dates in my head
Haha
ah jsmil3. good to see you again
aj aj, this is our third conversation aj, should I start every comment with your screen name aj, this is fun
nah.
haha ok then
haha
apologies Are you in class?
what don't you know that you are embarrassed about? I'm not Technically at work
Oh, good for you I am oh nevermind That's about the same
right
Let's see...something I'm embarrassed of not knowing... I haven't read past Harry potter book 3 Or seen Infinity war
Eh that's not a big deal
Or anything that came out after Ant Man
Also forgivable I read all the harry potters but didn't really retain them
Yeah that's not a great answer because I'm not really embarrassed of it
haha
Haha yeah
Are you sick of super hero movies or something?
Not really I'm just not way into them They're fun and all. I have nothing against them
That's fair I know some people have just gotten tired of them, so that's why I ask
There's just a lot of them to see and It's a lot of work to keep up with them haha Yeah I can understand that
For sure
I do keep up with the Starwars franchise though even though theres kind of a lot of those now Except Solo. I haven't seen that yet
I LOVE Star Wars Solo was ok
Yeah? That's awesome I'd say it's my favorite franchise What's your favorite movie/clone wars season
Ooh... I know this is a contentious topic but I really liked The Last Jedi
I did too Well, I liked the ending
Yeah that was good I love the original trilogy
A lot of the movie was just ok. The stuff on the rebel ships was just ok. But the luke scene at the end was sick
and the old Clone wars mini series Agreed
Yeah gotta love the original trilogy If you like Starwars, you should check out the youtube channel EC Henery
EC Henery? Ok
He's a huge nerd that does really interesting videos about starwars and startrek
I just looked it up. I can tell already that I'll like it
A lot of theoretical stuff about technologies in the movies and also plot rewrites. Just interesting stuff Haha nice And he has great attention to detail So they're just fun to watch and admire the work and research he puts into the videos austunmcconnel also does interesting Starwars videos.
Cool Have you watched rebels?
His are more about the expanded universe and little known starwars spinnoffs but they're still cool. I haven't is it good?
I don't know I haven't seen it either haha I was going to ask you
Oh haha We can have a Rebel's party and watch it for the first time
yaya
We'll invite other chitchatters
I'm sure a large portion of them also love star wars
Probably
I'll ask everyone from now on
Haha nice We can collect data on that
haha
Collect data in a chat experiment about collecting data.
Maybe I'll send them a request to find out how many times star wars is mentioned in conversation
Ooh that would be cool I wonder if we can ever see the conversations I think it would be cool to work on this project to be honest
No kidding Have you and I talked about Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning yet?
Maybe? I know I have with other people on here Are you a cs person?
Seems to be a common prompt I'm not I'm Mechanical Engineering, but I've been taking a few CS classes
Nice ME seems cool I thought about going into it
I wanted to get the minor, but I graduate in December so it's a little too late
Oh haha, yeah There's nothing stopping you from getting into it though. Even if it's not a minor
It's a really cool major, just very broad so it can be a little overwhelming Right, that exactly what I thought
Yeah totally So I guess as an engineer you've done python?
I want to do robotics too, so I thought it would be good to at least get some experience I've done a little, but not tons
Yeah, robotics is fun. A lot of the machine learning models and libraries right now are for python So that's a good foundation
Hmm I didn't know that... That would be a fun project
I've mostly done Java and some c++ so I'm trying to do more python
Same
What applications of AI interest you?
Hmm, nothing terribly crazy, but I like Human Robot Interaction, and automation type stuff
Yeah that's cool
I know places like Boston Dynamics use it in their robots too which I think would be wild
Oh heck yeah Boston dynamics would be a dream Theres plenty of ME there too I bet
yep AMEN to that
I've read some pretty cool articles of artificial intelligence stuff going on right now
Like what?
One cool one was with photography They took raw images Which just means it has a lot more data than say a jpeg
right
lot's more exposure data and stuff Anyways They trained a neural net to take raw data from pitch black pictures And output an image as if it were a perfectly well lit room And it WORKED Like really well
WHAT That's nuts
It looked amazing I don't remember where the article was but you should google for it It had sample pictures
I will Did you ever see the video of Google DeepMind learn to walk?
I don't think so but I've seen things it can do Oh wait
Its creepy
I think I have actually The one with a wireframe of a few different "leg" settups?
thats the one
Some of them had arms, some of them just two basic legs? Yeah that was way cool Some of the stuff it ended up doing was insanely interesting
I thought so too
Like the one that flapped it's arms all weird to balance
Imagine a robot that figured out how to walk like that I would poop my pants
haha yeah I wonder how much of the boston dynamics bots are AI and how much are algorythms developed by their developers *Algorithms
That's a good question
Because some of those.. like big dog and cheeta, can walk REALLY well. And open doors Which is scary
There has to be a lot of just straight up physics and dynamics to get them to walk, but I'm sure they incorporate AI somehow. I just have no idea how Yeah. Scary but awesome
Yeah I agree
I imagine they use AI for high level decision making probably and use regular dynamics and control theory for the walking and motion
That makes sense. I'm way more optimistic about AI than I am afraid of it
like the fine details Same I plan on merging with technology before it gets out of hand haha
I'm not sure exactly what that entails but that sounds probable Haha good plan But then it's not quite artificial intelligence. It's partially natural.
true So maybe I am a little pessimistic about AI then
Haha THere's a healthy balance
But on the other hand, I think we could just end up living with the artificial and the natural on a spectrum
Yeah that's a good point
I'll figure it out as I go
Good luck
Thanks I'm gonna grab lunch. Good chatting with you again
And when a half-robot half-person superhuman arises as president in 7 years, I'll know it's my old friend aj