An AI that would provide news, hints, & reminders is all very well and good, but I'd prefer one that could learn. Ok, everybody knows about targeted advertising, all that, but that's crap. Kiddie Scripts do that.
What I'd like to see is one that knew WHETHER OR NOT to offer me these tidbits, these reminders about meetings, based on my behaviour within a page or a site... I'm talking about typing rates (to see if I'm being leasiurly in my browsing), modify its offerings based on click-paths (does he have seem to have a specific thing on his mind, or is he browsing at random? Short attention span today, or a longer one?)... that sort of thing. Immediately, it might work on that sort of speed-default setting, but over time it might learn to do some fun pattern matching withing my mouse-movements, tab-uses, etc., to provide more and more an experience based on what in real life we'd think of as non-verbal cues. THAT's be fun.
Hm. Maybe now I can chat on a cellphone without worrying deep down that I'm going to get brain cancer.... And, thus, give a nervous mother (mine) one less thing to harangue me about during that same chat.
But the beauty of the capitalist system is supposed to be that if we don't like the way business X is treating us, we can take our money to business Y. With CDs, however, as the FTC showed, X and Y collaborated to make it so that taking your money elsewhere didn't work. And for sound quality, unless you want to buy vinyl and not play it more than two or three times, you can't really match CDs.
Except, of course, with MP3s. *smile*
Now, if record companies were forced to sell their commodities to more than one distrubuor -- say, make MP3s a competing medium where the two could go back and forth, we might have something.
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An AI that would provide news, hints, & reminders is all very well and good, but I'd prefer one that could learn. Ok, everybody knows about targeted advertising, all that, but that's crap. Kiddie Scripts do that.
What I'd like to see is one that knew WHETHER OR NOT to offer me these tidbits, these reminders about meetings, based on my behaviour within a page or a site... I'm talking about typing rates (to see if I'm being leasiurly in my browsing), modify its offerings based on click-paths (does he have seem to have a specific thing on his mind, or is he browsing at random? Short attention span today, or a longer one?)... that sort of thing. Immediately, it might work on that sort of speed-default setting, but over time it might learn to do some fun pattern matching withing my mouse-movements, tab-uses, etc., to provide more and more an experience based on what in real life we'd think of as non-verbal cues. THAT's be fun.
Hm. Maybe now I can chat on a cellphone without worrying deep down that I'm going to get brain cancer.... And, thus, give a nervous mother (mine) one less thing to harangue me about during that same chat.
But the beauty of the capitalist system is supposed to be that if we don't like the way business X is treating us, we can take our money to business Y. With CDs, however, as the FTC showed, X and Y collaborated to make it so that taking your money elsewhere didn't work. And for sound quality, unless you want to buy vinyl and not play it more than two or three times, you can't really match CDs.
Except, of course, with MP3s. *smile*
Now, if record companies were forced to sell their commodities to more than one distrubuor -- say, make MP3s a competing medium where the two could go back and forth, we might have something.