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Talking To Computers?
merlock18 writes "Is it un-natural to talk to a computer? After discussing the outcome of the Jeopardy game with some colleagues, they seem to think it is mildly 'scary' to talk to a computer and have it competently talk back. Is this what everyone thinks? I was thinking to myself how much I would like to be able to even tell my computer to open programs by telling it vocally. A simple idea that I am fairly surprised is not common. Am I a minority in this one? Do people just not like the idea of talking (without cursing) to a computer, let alone have it act or reply? Would anyone else be interested in building their own mini-Watson, or is this just scary?"
I can't speak for anybody else, but a lot of the time I don't *want* people to overhear what I'm asking my computer to do...
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
gawk; grep; unzip; touch; strip; init,
uncompress, gasp; finger; find,
route, whereis, which, mount; fsck; nice,
more; yes; gasp; umount; head, halt,
renice, restore, touch, whereis, which,
route, mount,
more, yes, gasp, umount, expand, ping,
make clean; sleep
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Ah, so you didn't see that episode..
By mistake he just said "Earl Gray, hot" - and spent the rest of the show running from a rather flustered older gentleman.
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."