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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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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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Can you back up the claim that there is no significant research going on? Maybe the real problem here is your definition of "significant", which BTW you also forgot to specify.
"current state of it is pathetic"
AI beats humans at chess and jeopardy. It solves difficult puzzles much quicker than you or I could. Maybe it's "pathetic" compared to what you would like it to be, but it's far from pathetic.
"there is no significant research going on"
Please do the tiniest bit of research before posting garbage like this. Again though, you include another relative term like "significant" to cover yourself.
Lame post.
That's because John Conner has come back from the future and saved us at the last possible moment from significant breakthroughs in AI research no less than 17 times now, you ingrate!
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?
I swear I remember reading that IBM had already simulated an AI "Intelligence" with sophistication on par with a cat's brain, albeit not at full speed.
Yep, here it is (one of many articles on the subject I picked at random)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/68678.html
AI is always in the future, almost by definition. As soon as any new "artificial intelligence" algorithm goes mainstream, and starts to be incorporated into real products, people tend to stop thinking of it as AI and more of "just what those computer thingies do." So it's you who keeps changing the definition of what AI is, it's not a lack of forward progress.
AI tends to be "whatever the most advanced stuff is that people are working on." I hate the terminology, as do you apparently, but a problem with terminology doesn't mean we're not inventing anything.
I wouldn't call Watson pathetic. Also, how far have we already pushed the boundary of 'intelligence'? I mean, playing chess or basically anything easier than go is no longer considered intelligence, limited parsing of sentences is no longer considered intelligence. How long before we find out that nothing is left to be called 'intelligence'?
Netflix has sponsored a hugely successful AI competition with a grand prize of 1,000,000 dollars.
Amazon uses AI to determine recommendations
US post office use AI so sort mail more accurately than a human and at insane speeds.
AI can beet any human at just about any game, it is even getting pretty good at Go!
Starcraft AI competition was just fun. Overmind use geneitic algorithms and machine learning to fine tune it's response to Starcrafts various enemies.
Your spam filter uses machine learning to better classify spam.
AI biggest is failure is that once AI has solved the problem it becomes an algorithm instead of machine learning. We do all of the work but get non of the glory.
A computer wouldn't have made that mistake.
Have gnu, will travel.
You are under the commonly held impression that intelligence requires some special magical ingredient. It does not. The human brain works within the laws of physics. It is simply a machine, albeit built out of organic material. While we don't fully understand all the details, we have made great leaps in the understanding of the mechanisms that drive it over the years. We haven't managed to create a machine with a generalized "intelligence" on par with a complete human brain yet, but we have been nibbling at the edges with vision, voice recognition, logic inference and other areas.
I suspect we won't just wake up one morning and hear on the news that someone has created an intelligent machine. It will creep into all the devices we interact with on a daily basis (maybe even embedded in our bodies) and at some point the question of whether a device is intelligent or not will be mote. If you can have an intelligent conversation with your device (maybe even more intelligent than with one of your friends) will it even matter whether it's a person or a device you are conversing with. If it can understand you and reply with a reasoned response, do you care how much "brute force" is employed under the covers?
AI is far more advanced than you realize and advancing at an accelerating pace, partly due to hardware, miniturization, software and communications.
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.