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How Machine Learning Will Change Augmented Reality
An anonymous reader writes "Augmented reality is already adding digital information to the world around us — but the next step to making it truly useful will be when it starts to use elements of machine learning to understand the real world, Mike Lynch, boss of machine learning software specialist Autonomy told silicon.com — also explaining machine learnings links with the theorems devised by 18th century cleric Thomas Bayes."
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How to use the FUCKING APOSTROPHE since it's obviously beyond human comprehension. We'll know we're in trouble when machines know how to use the ', they'll have outsmarted 95% of humanity.
One day some fool will ask a machine to figure how to rescue the environment and fix it for us, and the machines will figure out that humans are the ones who destroy it... let's hope that Newton's Laws come standard by that point, otherwise we'll be in deep deep trouble.
Look, all I want is my AR glasses to overlay the world into an MMORPG/FPS sim and I'll be good, okay? Call it a reparation for the future not providing me with my own jetpack and/or flying car yet.
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I think you meant Asimov's Laws of robotics! I doubt classical physics has anything to do with it.
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... when it's done, you bastards! I wasted 5 seconds of porn reading the summary.
Perhaps I'm trolling, perhaps I'm not.
Artificial intelligence has been the technology of the future for over 40 years. The current state of it is pathetic, and there is no significant research going on. So it will continue to be the technology of the future for a very very long time.
Computers currently have the possibility to learn via text based chat.
Now we say that Computers will have the possibility to learn visually.
Helen Keller could only communicate in a medium which could be considered equivalent to a text based chat.
I don't see why computers can't learn using the same techniques.
If you can get a computer to do [those tasks] then that's a phenomenal saving, and it frees up the human to do something more interesting.
Right. That's what's been happening. Humans have been freed up to do more interesting things, and for more pay, too. Uh huh.
So, the more we make machines do more of the work people do, the more interesting work there is for the rest of us? Those of us who don't own the machines? Those of us who need to make a decent living? Does this guy live on planet earth? Can it be that in 2011 there are still people in decision-making positions who still believe that?
If I could go back and do it all over again I think I would spend my entire life trying to figure out how a mosquito's brain works. There must be research along these lines happening somewhere but you never hear about it - they are always trying to map out mouse brains, or some other small mammal.
Why so ambitious? Start small - if a computer program could be made that perfectly imitates a mosquito it would be a huge breakthrough.
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And how, exactly, do they think augmented reality works? They think there's no Bayesian logic or other machine learning (k-means, etc.) in modern image recognition? Is the idea that there's a tiny man in your phone?
Seriously, anyone who could write such trash has no clue what the state of tech is, and certainly has no business predicting its future.
This is a complaint about how wealth is distributed, not a complaint against progress.
No, I'm serious, and not being snarky -- for many people already in positions of power, "progress" means them getting more [desirable noun]. So while the recent global financial meltdown set many of us back considerably, it has still been deemed as "progress" by the financial elite, at least as I've been reading in the media. For that matter, I've been reading and hearing for over a year now about how the economy is supposedly doing better and better, i.e. "progressing", but I have yet to see my personal situation, or the standings of my friends and relatives, improve in any measurable way. And that's not for lack of working hard...
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I easily say what I look forward to, and it will come from a combination of machine learning, human input, structured and unstructured information: the ability to look at something and know how it works, what it's made of, where it came from, who's involved with it. I mean, not having to google/wikipedia every interesting aspect, but having it show up translucently in front of what you're looking at.
This would be especially interesting for complex things like computers, electrical devices, organisms.
I'm looking forward to sub-$300 quality tablet devices to start working on my own version.
...but the next step to making it truly useful will be when it starts to use elements of machine learning to understand the real world,
Actually, if we've learned anything from Hollywood sci-fi movies, it's that we know the second after when the machine comes to fully understand the real world is when the nukes get launched.
And I know this will happen because almost every sci-fi movie which depicts a dystopian future that I saw in my childhood have elements that are coming to fruition within my lifetime.
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Oh... I can't believe the editors fell for this crap. Typical MO for Autonomy PR. Call me when they actually do something new instead of buying companies to pretend they are still relevant.