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| | | Who's Smarter? Humans or AI Systems? I used to watch science fiction movies and imagine we'd have these incredible machines that could interact with humans in amazing ways. I always believed more in the helpful and useful AI in Star Wars than the dangerous systems of movies like The Terminator or The Matrix. I could even imagine a time when we have sentient systems, though I'm not sure they are coming anytime soon. I used to assume the Asimov's Laws of Robotics would be implemented without any issue. After all, doesn't everyone worry about security? These days I'm more cynical, and I wonder if anyone would actually bother to program limitations in a system. I expect more people would assume we'll add in the laws later, once we know the other features are working. I do think we will get more and more systems like IBM's Watson, that are designed to handle many tasks. When I read pieces like this one from HBR, I actually get a little worried. Not because machines will destroy humans, but they will greatly impact and change our society, potentially in disruptive ways for society. While we've seen issues with manufacturing over the years, there are still humans involved, and we have learned to find other jobs over time. The AI revolution, if that's what's happening, will occur quicker, and if the HBR piece is correct, will impact many more people, across a shorter period of time. Our economies and workforce may not adapt as quickly, which has a variety of economic implications for all of us, even those of us that might be secure in our positions. If we can teach systems to accomplish tasks at a level even close to what the average human can do, we might find ourselves either out of a job or working with some sort of robot. I don't know how quickly we'll advance, or even how far we will go, but I do find that the leverage offered by implementing advanced technology is certainly increasing in a way that worries me. Steve Jones from SQLServerCentral.comJoin the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums |
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| | | Today's Question (by Steve Jones): I have a set of basketball statistics and I want to analyze a player. I'm hoping to get the number of points that a player scored and the difference from his first year with that team. For J.R. Reid (against whom I played as a kid), I have this data: year team pts ------- -------- -------------------------------------------------- 1989 CHA 908 1990 CHA 902 1991 CHA 560 1992 CHA 127 1992 TOT 780 1992 SAS 653 1993 SAS 627 1994 SAS 563 1995 SAS 208 1995 TOT 427 1995 NYK 219 I have this query with first_Value(), but it doesn't seem to work. Why not? SELECT TOP 10 year, team, CAST(pts AS INT) AS 'Season Points', CAST(pts AS INT) - FIRST_VALUE(pts) OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL) ) AS 'Difference from first year with team' FROM dbo.player_regular_season WHERE firstname = 'J.R.' AND lastname = 'Reid' ORDER BY [year]; The results of my query: year team Season Points Difference from first year with team ------ ----- ------------- ------------------------------------ 1989 CHA 908 0 1990 CHA 902 -6 1991 CHA 560 -348 1992 CHA 127 -781 1992 TOT 780 -128 1992 SAS 653 -255 1993 SAS 627 -281 1994 SAS 563 -345 1995 SAS 208 -700 1995 TOT 427 -481 |
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| Yesterday's Question (by Steve Jones): For these questions, I am working with RStudio without any additional packages installed. I want to plot the number of Home Runs for Hank Aaron. I create a vector with the CU count: HankAaron <- c(13,27,26,44,30,39,40,34,45,44,24,32,44,39,29,44,38,47,34,40,20,12,10) Now I to graph his home runs over time showing the count of each relative to the others. However, I want to label the graph with the year of each count. I have this vector: Years <- c(1954:1976) What should I run before I do a barplot(HankAaron) to get an image like this?
Answer: names(HankAaron) <- Years Explanation: The names() function will assign labels to the indexes of a vector. Use this to have your labels be listed in a plot. Ref: names() - click here » Discuss this question and answer on the forums |
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