Next you'll be saying that you switched my regular brewed coffee with rich, aromatic Folgers Crystals.
Actually, we replaced your regular brewed coffee with rich, aromatic, intelligent nanites. They'll reprogram your taste buds so you won't notice the difference!
Taking the picture with my camera phone, focusing, saving the image, and later calling it back up is both far more effort and far less informative than just writing the shit down would be. The only advantage is that I'm more likely to have my phone than a note pad at a given time. But I'm no more likely to remember to do it. And then what?
I actually never *told* a sudoku story; it took upwards of three hours before I finally gave up on a medium difficulty puzzle.
I'm getting stupider, Algernon!
Is that as we've gotten better at creating this sort of thing, the threshold for what's considered AI by the public has gotten higher. What was defined under the AI umbrella in 1980 doesn't ping us as "intelligence" any more, and possibly shouldn't. It seems too strong a word.
That is exactly what I was trying to say and failed.
amych, if you've skimmed, many minds want an update on how your Roomba overlord copes with fringe.
Guess what! I HAVE A DOOR! My office actually has a door,now that opens and closes like anything. The door guys just left after a long, loud morning of pounding and drilling and other building-type noises and I am very pleased.
After this afternoon, I don't even know what intelligence is any more. I mean, it seems like a lot of what I do that's 'intelligent' is data analysis and pattern recognition. I just am better at some of it than some computers (though some computers are better at parts of it then me).