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Intel CTO Says Future Phones Will Sense Your Mood
An anonymous reader writes "Ultra-smartphones that react to your moods and televisions that can tell it's you who's watching are in your future as Intel Corp's top technology guru sets his sights on context-aware computing. Chief technology officer Justin Rattner stuffed sensors down his socks at the annual Intel Develop Forum in San Francisco on Wednesday to demonstrate how personal devices will one day offer advice that goes way beyond local restaurants and new songs to download. 'How can we change the relationship so we think of these devices not as devices but as assistants or even companions?' he asked."
I have a boner.
Will it show calming pictures on the screen while I'm raging at customer service?
We have gone long past ridiculous in what we are having our "phones" do (and why do we even bother to call them phones anymore). Sheesh. A mood phone? I thought mood items went out in the 80s.
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Nokia always talked about feeling pulse and what not. Plus they and Siemens got that TV stuff going and it would be quite obvious they know who's watching that way I guess.
But maybe Intel is just talking in general / will sell sensors for everyone / whatever. But atleast Meego is still a joint Nokia and Intel (Is it just open-source or open for any player to join in and release their own Meego phones if they wanted to?)
I can imagine my phone ringing and saying,
"Hey, Kevin, I just noticed you're headed to The Pub. Um, it might not be a good idea to be drinking right after that breakup. Just sayin'..."
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as "personal assistant" and what not has already started in Japan in full force.
Here's few of the "your phone is your friend" idiotic commercials from this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIIQK1bUQzg
(the pink body is the phone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FIiu7xkcI
(ken watanabe is the phone)
There were a few more, all playing the theme "your phone is your best friend".
I've no doubt this will do miracles for the improvement of the communication skills of everyone - waiting for your phone to guess the mode of the other side.
"phone call from 'grandma', mood 'horny', press here to accept call"
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Mood is a thing for cattle and love play. It's not for cell phones.
'How can we change the relationship so we think of these devices not as devices but as assistants or even companions?' he asked."
Put me in control of what it does, what info I see, and what info it shares with whom, and I might call it a personal assistant.
As long as the control remains with the media companies, it is a spam assistant plain and simple, and it's only goal is to aid in selling my eyeballs off to the highest bidder for someone's profit.
I say the answer is simple, I just don't think they want to hear it or care about implementing it in that way.
Just call it GPP (Genuine People Personalities) and be done with it.
Awesome, so as I work throughout my day talking to more and more customers, my computer will gradually start showing me gun shopping websites? sweet!
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Didn't we already learn that computers suck at context?
Clippy anyone?
That's right I used the "C" word!
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horny. If you are female the phone won't stop vibrating, male it won't stop streaming youporn.
I think this is another example of how C-level execs are out of touch with what people actually want. Nobody wants a phone that won't answer phone calls because it believes it senses you're angry and doesn't want you to say something you'll regret.
Seriously, we don't want AI in our fucking phone. This isn't the first time I've seen this kind of disconnect, and it certainly won't be the last.
Hi Dave, I sense you're in a bad mood. Would you like me to cheer you up ? *Thump*Thump*Thump*
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I can suggest other places for him to stuff his sensors. ...But then, I might also suggest that he get off my lawn.
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The good thing about computers is that they respond to the same input identically. If you do X one day, it will do the same thing when you press X tomorrow.
Part of this is that the input is knowable. I can tell that I just pressed "d", or that I just moved the mouse 2.1 inches to the left, and I can tell by experience what that's going to do. Once you factor in things humans don't naturally know, like heart rate or blood pressure, you get a useless input device, as far as interaction goes. The only uses I can think of are highly-targeted advertisements, health/stress apps, and maybe gaming, since Valve is researching this idea as well, for much different reasons.
so as i work throughout my day, talking to more and more clients, my computer will gradually show me more and more gun shop websites? awesome! (tried posting this before but .. well i don't know what happened, the comment seemed to disappear)
I know a better way to change the relationship, how about instead of stuffing the sensors in his socks, he stuffs them down his pants. Likely quite a bit easier to sense the emotions of his little head methinks.
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I Don't Care If The #@! Phone Can Read My @#%ING MOOD! It Can Go TO **static*** IF **static*** My Emotions Are ****silence****
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Didn't we have these back in the 70's . . . ? Now your cell phone can do it, too!
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so which mood does intel want to drive it's userbase towards?
Devices will know when they f*#@%ng annoy me right??
With the way I personifying with devices as I yell at them (part of trial and error in my book) I'd end up on some kind of watch list lol
... I welcome the Rule 34 implementation of this.
Have gnu, will travel.
My mood does not reflect the list of things that I need to get done.
When I can ask my phone, just by talking into it, to schedule a meeting, invite certain people, then comb the news to see if traffic will a be worry tonight, and also send my wife a text message apologizing for being late, then report back when it's done, THEN I'll have a digital assistant. Software has barely tapped the ability to serve us with the input we're already giving it. Adding bio-sensor input and "mood detection" now is just a bell/whistle that isn't helpful to me. It's helpful to so many sales channels of which I am the target.
Now if we had these "real digital assistants" then mood awareness would be a true achievement. The text apology to my wife would make her smile lovingly while shedding a single tear.
But seriously, Intel should invest it's billions more into software. Fuel real demand for hardware rather than pimping out yet more bells and whistles.
I guess medical and fitness uses will be pretty advantageous.
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Anyone else getting flashback images of Hal? Or better yet.
Dave: Call ex girlfriend:
Phone: Sorry but I can't let you do that, Dave
Dave: Call boss
Phone: Sorry, Dave
Dave: *attempts to smash phone*
Phone: Let me remind you that I cost over $500, Dave, and you need me for work. I'm also smash proof and you are way too drunk to be effective
Dave: *unzips fly*
Phone: I'm not water proof, Dave. It's the 8th wonder of the Universe. No phone ever created will ever be waterproof. But I cost $500.
Dave: *urinates on phone*
Phone:No, Dave! Noooo! Mommy!! *gurgle*
(Can ya tell I'm sleep deprived?)
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What would be really cool is if the phone could tell us what others' moods are. You could hold the phone and scan the people in a bar, the TSA security actors at an airport, and so on.
The Luddites were ahead of their time.
*whilst on hold to Intel*
Call center lacky: Hello, thanks for holding
Phone (in assistant mode): Listen lady, my man Dave has been on hold for 45 minutes. 45 minutes for crying out loud! And he's been hung up on twice and promised a call within 20 minutes that never came. Are you going to quit reading your script and help him or what? Sheesh!
Call center lacky: *hangs up*
Dave: Thanks a bunch for your help. Lesson learnt. No more Intel. Next time I'll buy Nokia.
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.. will be calling his "Jane"!
I hate locked phones and unlock itself?
Or that I hate the overpriced plans the phone companies are selling?
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Why would I consider a non-living object as a assistant or a companion? It is an object.
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I want a digital brain lobe. But if 'companion' is what they'd call the intermediate step, whatever. I've already outsourced a lot of my brain's data storage to the internet, I find that Google often has *lower latency* than my own brain for certain types of information. I think a good start is powering devices off of human blood. I expect it to be accepted because of convenience and wait loss potential, and once people get used to that, nervous system interfacing shouldn't seem so scary.
There are technologies that we take for granted today that would have seemed preposterous only a few years ago. For example - if someone told me five years go that Google was working on technology to predict what I am searching for, and display the results before I can finish typing - my response would have been "I'll believe it when I see it". Now, after using real-time search for a week, I am sure there will be a time when I expect every search engine to deliver results in real time as I type.
I can understand being skeptical about the "mood sensing mobile phones" being discussed in this article. But to get all bent out of shape about a technology that doesn't even exist yet, and that you will not be obligated to use if it ever is created - I just don't see the point.
After thinking about this technology for a couple minutes, here's one potential use that I might like to see. If you're driving and listening to music at the same time, and the device senses that you are overwhelmed with information (you're lost, for example, and looking for a specific street) - it could lower the volume on your radio to help you think. Nothing earth shattering - just a simple incremental improvement over my car radio today, which is smart enough to raise and lower the volume based on my current speed (another example of a feature I never thought I needed, but appreciate, and will expect to have in any car I buy from now on).
I've seen enough negative comments on this subject. Are there any other positive uses that people can imagine?
Feel free to add.
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"Ultra-smartphones that react to your moods...
I dub thee the Troi-phone.
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do not want. Seriously, this robot/AI was the scariest since HAL 9000.
It looks like you're vaguely aroused
Would you like help?
- Undermining the self-esteem of your ex-partner, Jane Johnson? She'll be receptive to your advances when she realises she's getting older and less fertile.
- I can also vibrate softly.
Does anyone else see just the slightest bit of danger in giving up your ability to get the content you want and having some device determine what's best for you to view at the moment? Can we say brainwashing?
How about a sim safe, any telco ready phone, linux device. No need to do much work, just roll it out.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
i sense you are angry. would you like to call your ex?
How can we change the relationship so we think of these devices not as devices but as assistants or even companions?
A phone is a tool; I don't know about you, but I don't want my hammer to "befriend" me and want to get intimate.
The title car (in the book, not the movie) behaved like that. It was full of gadgets and whistles, but when it (she?) though one was useful at the current situation it wouldn't (well, almost never) launch it on its own. It just flashed some light over the appropriate handle in the control panel, and the decision to activate the feature was on the driver. Children loved it.
This is how well-mannered smart agents should behave (and no, a giant paper clip talking about nonsense does not qualify).
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
....."you seem a little tense, would you like me to book you a massage?" will be beaten to a pulp and thrown over the side of a bridge.
I'd like Intel to focus more on power efficiency and less on emotional claptrap.
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Unless the phone looks like Chi(Chobits), puts out, and keeps nosey corporations/governments/individuals out of my business, I'm not interested.
television watches YOU!!!
How do we get beyond regarding these people as 'sad fsckers'? Do we want to?
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grr fuck king phone
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I sense Clippy will be invading other hardware...
now we have to deal with TIS..... (Technology Identifier Syndrome, kinda like when people talk to someone on the phone, only they're only talking to the phone.)
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The biggest hurdle to these mood-related responses is that programmers will have to write software that correctly identifies moods and emotions and gives an appropriate response to those. Consider your last call to tech support, are those really the people you want to program your phone to react to your moods?
It's easy for a cellphone to sense my mood. When I open it, I'm in the mood to make a fucking phone call. Get all that stupid eye candy out of my way, goddamnit, and get off my lawn while you're at it.
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So if it can sense my mood, can it play different ring tones based on that?
That would be cool, because then we could all have Mood Rings.
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As a productivity assistant and online help desk and knowledge-base... that wasn't so bad now was it?
My phone senses my mood by losing its battery, developing cracks in its case, and failing to work when I'm in a really bad mood. The phone makers cleverly realized that being thrown against a hard surface was correlated with bad mood, and programmed these side effects accordingly.
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Your thesis may be correct but your example seems moronic. Google realtime search actually doesn't appear to "predict" what I'm looking for but rather just updates my search page while it's idle. Google does provide auto-completion which is essentially an index of your prior searches and some list of prior search others have done. I don't see how an index into a list (or an updating screen) would have been so incomprehensible to you (or anyone) five years ago (especially considering that fifteen years ago the internet was all about 'push technologies').
Mood sensing stuff is a stupid idea because generally it's trying to model a behavior that is likely far more complicated than it's inputs. Which isn't a problem in and of itself - it's what computers do but what I think is key to making this kind of technology successful is that it is acting on voluntary input from the user from there the user can modulate their actions to get the desired response. i.e. Handwriting recognition became useful when people could change their writing to something the computer could predict reliably (i.e. graffiti).
Take your own examples...sensing you are overwhelmed with information isn't a "mood" it's a state based on a myriad of inputs, so is being "lost". The computer can look at your heart rate and perspiration but that doesn't tell it you are overwhelmed or lost. Attempting to do so will however cause the computer to change something that you likely didn't want changed and you have to deal with.
IMHO you haven't read enough negative stuff.
We're also going to get flying cars very soon now.
Ultra-smartphones that react to your moods and televisions that can tell it's you who's watching are in your future as Intel Corp's top technology guru sets his sights on context-aware computing.
I, for one, do not want this. I'm already having enough of a time trying to preserve my privacy, and then they want to have half the electronics I have at home monitoring my bodily functions and mood? Screw that. I need a phone that's a phone and a TV that's a TV. I don't need them 'helping' me make decisions about anything -- especially when their idea of 'helping' me is probably going to amount to nannying me like I'm a helpless child. This kind of crap keeps up and we'll have an entire generation of adults that will have been raised without having to think for themselves. Then where will we be?
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My phone is 4 years old. Every time I am upset and throw it at the wall, it sense my displeasure and shut off. ~:-)B
I don't want a phone that can sense how long I sit in front of a computer and browse the internet. I also don't want my boss to sense it, either.
Here's what I'm waiting for:
-A full sized Android tablet with all the features of the Galaxy Tab. iPad size is perfect.
-HDMI out for anything the built-in screen displays.
-USB that allows me to painlessly upload photos from a camera or card reader.
-***Wifi that will work with Nikon and Canon camera Wifi and Eye-Fi cards - to shoot straight to the tablet.***
-A gorgeous fingerprint resistant screen, NOT GLOSSY, with lots of pixels, WXGA would be nice, WUXGA would be awesome.
-Multi-Touch interface that's a pleasure to use.
-6 hours of battery life is plenty, just include a power cord that's not so darn short.
How long do I have to wait?
Operator, give me the number for 911!