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.
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
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.
Kathy A - Jan 04, 2006 9:56:45 am PST #7327 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Spidra Webster - Jan 04, 2006 9:57:01 am PST #7328 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
BTW- I love your tagline, Dana.
eta: oop. I might have posted that in the wrong thread. Sometimes "read new" is dangerous.
msbelle - Jan 04, 2006 9:57:02 am PST #7329 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 9:58:14 am PST #7330 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.)
Dana - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:05 am PST #7331 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
And...O'Reilly called the Great Britain intelligence service "M one 6." Uh...
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:25 am PST #7332 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
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.
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:53 am PST #7333 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Doug Henning in a warehouse somewhere hooked up to wires and shit.
Zombie magic.
Spidra Webster - Jan 04, 2006 9:59:57 am PST #7334 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
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.
Dana - Jan 04, 2006 10:01:22 am PST #7335 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 10:01:49 am PST #7336 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
A non-hatable voice-recognition application is your voice-triggered cellphone.
Ooh, or my dad's minivan! You can tell it "Go home" and it'll map a route back to our house. (Unfortunately, our street is wrong on every map in existance, so the GPS software in practice maps a route to about 50 feet from our house. And it doesn't believe in the street that extends from the bottom of the hill to where our street actually begins. But in theory, it's a very cool feature.)
You can also tell it to turn the radio on and vocally control the volume.