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Is anyone else getting this? There's also one for older women. I'm on a coach and I have to keep scrolling away quickly before someone thinks I'm looking for "a blacky" or an old woman.

I have Adblocker running on mine so don't normally get ads but since having my movie website running I been coming home to notifications running all down the side of my laptop telling me there are women in my area who would love to meet up and have sex etc... I don't mind the ads just fed up of walking endless streets to find empty houses and old couples saying they don't have a clue who Natasha is?? Just as I am typing this one has just popped up in the corner.. where did I leave my house keys??

He's fine. He had a disagreement with a member on here and chose to take some time away from the forum.

You think that's awkward, I was tagged into a closed Facebook group called Lamp Lovers. Pretty fit birds with next to nothing on and a lamp somewhere in the picture. Sounds great. Only problem is scrolling through facebook feeds, you literally never know when one of these pictures is gonna pop up amongst everything else, so when you are scrolling, you kinda go into 'slow mo' mode, enough to see the tip of the next post. Its like your own version of Russian Roulette. Not a barrel of laughs when the girlfriend is present mind. Or your Mum.

Are we sure MUFC isn't Balon? The timing's about right probably. He wasn't comfortable coming out of the foot closet as himself so he created a new account solely (lol) to express that side of himself?

Nadal would be the only person in the history of men's tennis to win 2 or more finals in each of the Slams if he wins this Aussie Open. Come on, Rafa!

Ah, to his thread? Not to foot porn?

Is the word feet in your post a link or just underlined? I'm scared to test it.

This is the definitive original Xbox game even over Halo. The story arc and the ability to split into whatever you want to be (Jedi/Sith) is superb. I played this years ago and I still think its one of the best Star Wars games I have ever played.

I get that one all the time. There is certainly nothing to be ashamed of though if you were looking for a black woman. Black(and of course Indian and Latin) women have always done it for me.

I am obviously joking... I would rather cover my entire body in seal meat and go swimming off the coast of Florida than go near someones toe with my mouth...

Think we can all blame @MUFC for that

I like how you've been identified as an "older guy". how did they know? Do you search for google on your chrome searchbar?

Okay, so I made an even bigger mistake and got Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic today I'm normally not into RPGs much, but since I love Star Wars and always heard raving reviews about the game, I decided to give it a go. And I'm glad I did as the story and the gameplay is just incredible and I'm only just starting... Anyone played it before?

All the bad things aside you're right, we are trying to create something similar to a consciousness that can make decisions like a human being and for all the easy computational system logic you can give an AI the hardest thing to make it do is make human-like decisions. At the end of day it will learn and never repeat its mistakes again but then it loses some of its human nature which is why I feel like this is all just for betterment of co-existing systems rather than being a mimic of tribal nature systems. If the system did decide, however, to start eradicating other systems because it felt that they were threats to progression or because they just weren't necessary anymore that would certainly align with human thinking and how progression can sometimes mean discarding what isn't working anymore.

I mean we're basically just designing the AI after our own image...

Just a little death and genocide, you know business as usual.

Yes, the first thing I thought of after reading the article was if we really want to teach AI to basically build cliques with the tribal us-against-them mentality... I mean, what could possibly go wrong...

"They then ran two experiments to test the algorithm’s performance. In the first one, it had to infer the alliances of players in a video game by watching several sequences of game play. In the second, it had to predict the players’ actions in the same video game to see whether it truly understood each player’s motivations. It wasn’t trained for either task." I suppose the next step is to get the AI to then make tactical decisions on what to do based on the social interaction with the elements it was observing. I find this particularly interesting because just the other day I was making fun of HAL and how it lost its marbles and killed everyone aboard the ship. In the same joking vein, can you imagine an AI throwing a tantrum and suddenly deciding that the social aspect it was most interested in was building relationships with other systems to eliminate the one it thought was a risk. Fun times.

Interesting topic. Honestly though is one i almost prefer not to think about. Without a doubt it creates some unease for me as a parent as I struggle to resolve increasing automation and artificial intelligence with projections of a 15 billion world population.

Enjoy Rab! It's a great feeling when it's cold on your way home and you know your house will be toastie when you get back!

Interesting stuff: https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612811/an-algorithm-that-mimics-our-tribal-instincts-could-help-ai-learn-to-socialize/

Adam Smith died a few centuries ago lads The west has moved on from specialisation to highly complex diversification in a global supply chain operation of goods, services and capital. In fact in the mobile phone of every member on here there is most likely a part created or designed in the UK. Complex products don't come from singular countries quite like wine does. The German trade surplus calculation is distorted by the stage in the global supply chain which they sit, rather than specialisation itself. The value added doesn't filter down to ordinary people very well but is mainly redistributed back out across the world to shareholders and non-manufacturing aspects of a business model. For example, if it takes 3 widgets to make a car, 1 widget from Slovakia costing €1000, 1 widget from Italy costing €1000 and 1 widget from Brazil costing €1000 that is an import cost calculated at €3000. The car plant, based in Germany, sticks the 3 widgets together and sends it to Russia for €10000. The trade surplus or value added in Germany is then calculated at €7000. Does this money filter down into the local economy of the car plant? Little. The shareholders from Japan, Dubai, Australia all around the world take their cut. The hedge funds from the UK, the pension funds from the Netherlands. Then the company takes its value added money and spends it in Russia on advertising, on opening a salesroom, providing car finance. The tentacles of globalisation are too complex for the old fashioned business view of seeing everything in terms of national borders. It might have been that way before Margaret Thatcher and co around the world abolished capital controls but money is now recycled in myriad ways creating a system that keeps fuelling itself. Dyson are moving 2 people to Singapore. They haven't manufactured in the UK for over a decade and I might be wrong but I don't think has even paid corporation tax here for years. The role the UK plays in the globalised economic process of a Dyson product is the value added by the 3000 strong engineering design plant, the investments made there and the gainful employment there, that is what impacts the local economy. Any left wing government worth its salt would indirectly make trading with its economy harder by passing progressive laws and taxes that improve human rights, workers rights, animal rights and the enviornment. Trade deals aren't so much about swapping bananas for pottery in the Adam Smith conception of it anymore. It is far more complex now. "Good" trade deals are about the facilitation of more transactions given that governments rightly or wrongly judge an economy by a value of all its transactions.

@Test team Would have put Butler in there instead of Pant. Pant has done well (two away centuries already), but Butler was a different class against us and made some stellar contributions which shifted the results completely from a possible Indian win to England win in couple of matches. Happy to see Holder. Lone warrior against us with the bat and bowl. He is very underrated. @Kohli diva debate I don't mind his modelling or commercial gigs. They have a short shelf life and need to make most of it. What I do mind is his and his wife's obsession to milk every achievement and make it about themselves. There were even rumours about her being present in team meetings. And who can forget this infamous photo taken at the Indian High Commission in UK during England tour, where she had absolutely no business being part of it, while the vice captain was thrown in the last row. Same thing happened during Australian tour when the team went to meet the Aussie PM. It was an official visit and again it was Anushka in the front. She has no business being around the team.

Shows you long they can be... she was in her 30's when she started reading it!