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.
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.
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.
That first Chronicle article annoyed me, too.
But a University of Michigan study shows that the percentage of married women with advanced degrees has grown, not shrunk, over time.
OK, I'm guessing the number of
people
with advanced degrees has grown over time. Given that, wouldn't the real question be the percentage of women with advanced degrees who are married?
And...O'Reilly called the Great Britain intelligence service "M one 6." Uh...
Hahahahahahahahahaclunk. Uh-oh.