All those things still sound like a lot of figuring, quickly, though. Isn't AI supposed to be more?
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
Keeping with the robot theme, today's featured gadget at CNN online is the Scooba! Considering how much I detest washing my kitchen and bathroom floors, this is something I must get.
BTW- I love your tagline, Dana.
eta: oop. I might have posted that in the wrong thread. Sometimes "read new" is dangerous.
Fingerprint matching, which I think is called AFIS? It always looked like the technician marked a certain type of characteristic on the fingerprint and those points are matched against the database. Anyone know how that works? I watch those forensic shows and am left wondering.
magic.
Doug Henning in a warehouse somewhere hooked up to wires and shit.
See, I don't think of those as AI because I hate them, and although it's cheaper, often less effective for me as the consumer.
I don't mean customer service, I mean the actual switching. Which used to be done by people, and is now completely automated. (It's not "intelligent" persay, but it is a human job that is now done by machines.)
And...O'Reilly called the Great Britain intelligence service "M one 6." Uh...
See, I don't think of those as AI because I hate them,
Yeah? Well, I hate Microsoft Word, but that doesn't make it any less of a software application.
A non-hatable voice-recognition application is your voice-triggered cellphone.
Doug Henning in a warehouse somewhere hooked up to wires and shit.
Zombie magic.
My landline was dead this morning so I had to call SBC. I didn't talk to a human the entire time. And I was thinking about that. The speech recognition is really impressive. But the better it gets, the more bureaucratic monopolies can fence regular ol' people off from help, from communicating, etc.
I loathe computer systems that pretend to be people on the phone.
And Spidra, I actually had to post again to check my tagline, but yeah, I'm going through a bit of a Music Man phase.