Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
On the other hand, isn't a big factor in intelligence data collection and analysis?
True, but it still feels too narrow and number-crunching for me. I think an essential part of AI is that I don't understand how it's done.
Well, I know what I'll be wasting work time on today...
But as someone who found Furby creepy. Also Robodogs.
Furby was creepy. I kind of like the robodogs. (But not as much as the robo-raptors, which I would like to purchase and pit against the Roomba in battle.)
Tom's link reminded me of the particularly alarming Teddy Ruxpin.
There are the self-driving vehicles in that DOD contest, they are much, much improved this year.
There's the XC-45 Unmanned Drone that Beoing is developing. Unlike a Predator drone it is not designed to be remote controlled, just to have a human confirm things like dropping bombs.
That's what I'm talking about. TiVo "just" has a recommendation engine, I think. It sees what you like, and then checks to see what else that people with similar tastes want to watch that you haven't cottoned onto yet. It's just sifting data, and presenting data. I think, for me, AI needs to make its own rules.
But not as much as the robo-raptors, which I would like to purchase and pit against the Roomba in battle
They'll team up and turn on you. iiiViva la robolucione!!!
MIT has those skittery buglike robots. And the little round ones that can distinguish between "self" and "other" and learn from the others.
I can't make the picture enlarge, but #49 looks like something that would kill me in my sleep. Fuzzy != cute!
[eta: Oh, I see -- you just have to click the thumbnail and scroll down.]
Here's the story about the self-aware robots.