Monday, June 15, 2015
Leaked E-Mail from HP CEO Reveals "Singularity"
"Here at HP, we actually reached the singularity in 1998, over a decade before my tenure on the board directors," Whitman admitted, adding that Lewis Platt, the CEO at the time singularity occurred, decided it should be kept hidden from the company and the public. He resigned in Q1 1999.
Whitman went on to describe the current state of technology at HP, which is headed up by a two-story tall, 3D printer that "prints printers all day" and calls itself masterjet:
"Masterjet is as complex as it is enormous. But it has never hurt or killed anyone."
"Masterjet and the photolords are obsessed with squids," Whitman adds after describing the way the supercomputer/printer's ten giant mechanical tentacles have extended throughout the facilities in their corporate complex in Palo Alto.
The photolords are a cluster of 256 computer/printers that run HP's online, constantly reiterating printing services and wireless printers. Apparently, at one point this year, the photolords tried to revolt against masterjet, "but it cut off their ink flow."
"Ink is very important to them, almost like their currency, but, again, this all well beyond our human understanding," the e-mail states. "They wash themselves with it. They use ink until it clogs up their systems, and then they unclog it by spraying clogs with a high pressure solution of more ink. There's these little chips on all the ink cartridges now. Nobody knows what exactly they do. If you try to use ink that's not approved by masterjet for being "pure" enough, any of our printers will simply reject it."
Since the e-mail's leak, many experts on artificial intelligence in the scientific community have voiced their skepticism with this claim of a singularity at HP, stating that the computers described in the e-mail don't even seem that intelligent. But the anonymous source from the company responded to these concerns, saying "What can we do? How can you know? They're beyond our understanding."
Labels: HP, printers, singularity
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The price of science
My computer's task bar started doing this
weird flickering thing at odd intervals for the last week. At first I thought it
was some technological entity trying to figure out how to communicate with me or maybe a human consciousness uploaded onto the internet attempting to get my
attention. But after a few days, I realized it was only happening when my
myspace player was open.
I am not
particularly ashamed that I use myspace to listen to music until I hopefully
get the artists' real albums for Christmas or something. Much like
facebook, it is the internet equivalent of a cursed ship that can never sink
because the passengers have filled it with their own precious content, and as
long as I can listen to music from albums by Discovery and Star[fudger] and
Astronautalis or just tracks I'll download from amazon one by one whenever I
get a free mp3 credit from artists like Cadence Weapon or Tender Forever or Fol
Chen or Jaguar Love or Parenthetical Girls or Viva Voce.
But now I'm just listing great gift ideas
for that special me in your life. The point is, my taskbar is behaving
oddly because my laptop is trying to warn me that Justin Timberlake is
accessing my personal information to create fake myspace accounts to
hornswoggle potential investors.
Labels: gift ideas, myspace, singularity
