he didn't say 'talk to google.com's personal assistant, clippy' he said talk to your computer..... the key to AI, in his opinion, is not sentience or self-awareness, as much as it is the ability to parse the spoken english(or human, in any form) language and pull from that the MEANING and INTENT of what was said... it is incredibly hard, even to try and think about how a computer might do it, let alone actually coding something...
The ammount of fluf talked on to a simple english sentence is amazing, yet a computer would need to be able to find what the sentence was about, disregard unimportant stuff, take into account the extra details, then translate that into a highly tuned search for the information... 300 years might not be too far off the mark.
not to troll, but it is almost apple-like... google has that cool, sleek, almost artisic clean interface(including gmail's gui) and secrecy behind all its products that everyone WANTS to know what is next, but noone does... It creates demand, excitement, and an interest in a company that otherwise would just be another dot-com search company.
That, and they are REALLY GOOD at searching the web.
there are many things google can still do. audio and video search come to mind... a watson/sherlock(mac users) local search/browser like app could be a killer... google should buyout the developers that wrote watson.
Google HAS tweaked their code greatly... every few months, your search results for a given thing change somewhat, or they change drastically... most of the time for the better. This is to 1. improve the variables that get each search term a ranking(improve results) and 2. to make it harder for sites to unfairly promote their site so they get top rankings... a changing algorithm can drop a 'bad site' in terms of unfair practice, from first to 50th.
i read your first words and thought you were typing a terminal command 'man google'... wow.
if google can do an image search, i wonder how they could morph that technology(and metadata processing) into a movie search?
better yet, get some REAL processing power and do an audio search... wether it be mp3s or radios posts or famous speeches... all 3 would be helpful, esspecially if you could search for words and have the google computers transcribe the audio file and find matches...
why, o why, did Microsoft have to so thuroughly ruin a viable idea...
AI bot capable of running software and internet queries.... Could be done right.
Image, a customized ALICE bot, with a highly modified AIML set to be very secretary/computer held desk-ish... Only talks when spoken too, period... Was capable of executing basic commands('Computer, ping google', would execute 'ping www.google.com')... Or do a safari/watson(mac users know this) type of internet browser that can retrieve and format airline info, movie times, tv schedules, pro game schedules, phone book... Or how about a google frontend?
This could have been a perfectly usable piece of software that could be the frontend for setting up cron jobs and other simple command line interfaces... could be clunky(harder than just typing the command in the terminal)... but future versions and a smart system could start to configure itself around your usage habits.
indeed... my site has some pretty interesting top ranks, that i have noticed...
*'edjumacated' the name of one of the members, is top ranked. *'shold gay marriage be legalized' is number 3 *'controversial pictures of iraq' with regards to the flags over coffins, is ranked second.
Nothing rediculously impressive, except that mirwin.net(the site) has only been up in its current form since mid January. Quite an impressive jump to the top.
I had a similar(read: identical) contest going on my website two weeks ago! This thread shows how i tried to link Vector Desist to my website, just for the hell of it.
Oh well. This contest did 2 things better though... They did it as a true competition, while we did it just on our own website. And second, there words are more non-sensical, so you don't have to compete with existing page rankings
yea, it is his 'baby' but it is released under and open license, why SHOULDN'T i be able to fork openbsd if i want? If Theo wants an unforkable OS, he shouldn't have started by forking netbsd in the first place!
It is $49.99 every where i have seen... in fact, i don't think i have seen a launch title over 50 dollars. And yes, I do own the game(bought well after launch).
Here is a novel idea... set your laptop to not show user icons(and thus give the person your screenname) and not auto login... THEN, set your home directory to be encrypted using a strong(STRONG!) password using... YUP, the builtin File Vault technology. Make a good backup before you encrypt, then setup regular off-laptop backups while it is encrypted.
If that isn't good enough for you, and i don't see why it wouldn't be, have your web browser's home page(or an applescript that runs every time it verifies a network connection) to post to a 'secret' webpage you have on your site... have it post its information(ip, blah blah) and timestamp it... this way, you have a clear record every time the laptop has a connection, and you can just take note whenever it has an entry while NOT in your posession.
how about some peercast action? off can do video, can't it? why not setup a p2p peercast channel of streaming ogg video with cowboyneal doing his best CNN news anchor impression as he reports on SCO, Linux and Microsoft...
I am trying to hold myself back from making some dup joke.
i would rather see TCP get updated with that college's improvements talked about a few weeks back... It made the window size scale much quicker to take advantage of broadband, rather than slowly, so as to saturate(or use to full potential) cable broadband more efficiently.
the technology can be executed at any of those level to be effective, not all 3 at once. So that means linux could get support for it at the kernel level... someone could write an application for windows, and palms could use an updated firmware and all 3 would effectively take advantage of the algo.
In all honesty, if windows 98 could now(maybe with the latest unofficial SP) be shipped in a secure way, that played modern games somewhat well, it would likely never need to be replaced...
I mean, security aside, the ONLY reason people upgraded their home machines from 98se was newer machines, promises of better security(that XP did bring, not ME though), etc.
98se with stability improvements and bugfixes(both huge tasks, but a third edition could have been it) could have been the last OS home machines needed.
Heck, 2000 was, in most ways, the last OS business es needed.
or how about we get together, and send the corporations a HUGE public backlash? We buy our content, we want to use it in a reasonable way, they have no business trying to cripple that right.
Consumers put money in there pockets, we are the ones with the power, they answer to us, no vice versa.
well i do realize that, though didn't make it clear in my posting. First, I think a framework system could still be made, with proper work for such things taken into account.
Second, how do all these bills get such BS things to be attached and then fail? How do we avoiad, undo, stop, whatever, the effect of a reasonable bill getting unreasonable attachments pinned on it? That is such crap, it annoys me to no end. No legislative system is perfect, but if bill X v 1.1 (the revised by senate version you mentioned) would have passed then that bill turns into v 1.1.5 where several EXTRA things are attached, a couple arn't bad, one(or more) are really bad, how does the senate get to vote on only v 1.1 and not with the additional cruft?
the answer ofcourse being that TCP gaurantees delivery. UDP only does best-effort... your pr0n might transfer faster, but it is almost(extremely likely, esspecially given the size) to be very corrupt once recieved.. There will just be too many dropped packets.
Wha'dya know, I just had an idea for a website that would fit this.
Basicly, it was a 'framework' for a legislature(local, state, federal) that would cross-reference each bill or legislation with how each member voted... Want to know who is pro-abortion, simple query. Want to see all the Democrats that voted for Bush's XYZ legislation, simple stuff... Who is on what committee, and so on.
The beauty is, if this was done open source, then it could be applied to all 50 state legislatures (and other countries!) along with Congress, so there would be a fairly large(relative) demand for such a system.
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he didn't say 'talk to google.com's personal assistant, clippy' he said talk to your computer..... the key to AI, in his opinion, is not sentience or self-awareness, as much as it is the ability to parse the spoken english(or human, in any form) language and pull from that the MEANING and INTENT of what was said... it is incredibly hard, even to try and think about how a computer might do it, let alone actually coding something...
The ammount of fluf talked on to a simple english sentence is amazing, yet a computer would need to be able to find what the sentence was about, disregard unimportant stuff, take into account the extra details, then translate that into a highly tuned search for the information... 300 years might not be too far off the mark.
not to troll, but it is almost apple-like... google has that cool, sleek, almost artisic clean interface(including gmail's gui) and secrecy behind all its products that everyone WANTS to know what is next, but noone does... It creates demand, excitement, and an interest in a company that otherwise would just be another dot-com search company.
That, and they are REALLY GOOD at searching the web.
there are many things google can still do. audio and video search come to mind... a watson/sherlock(mac users) local search/browser like app could be a killer... google should buyout the developers that wrote watson.
Google HAS tweaked their code greatly... every few months, your search results for a given thing change somewhat, or they change drastically... most of the time for the better. This is to 1. improve the variables that get each search term a ranking(improve results) and 2. to make it harder for sites to unfairly promote their site so they get top rankings... a changing algorithm can drop a 'bad site' in terms of unfair practice, from first to 50th.
i read your first words and thought you were typing a terminal command 'man google'... wow.
:)
if google can do an image search, i wonder how they could morph that technology(and metadata processing) into a movie search?
better yet, get some REAL processing power and do an audio search... wether it be mp3s or radios posts or famous speeches... all 3 would be helpful, esspecially if you could search for words and have the google computers transcribe the audio file and find matches...
Yes, google is my hero.
Palm(palmsource, the OS company) owns all things Be. They would have control over any patents that Be had.
why, o why, did Microsoft have to so thuroughly ruin a viable idea...
AI bot capable of running software and internet queries.... Could be done right.
Image, a customized ALICE bot, with a highly modified AIML set to be very secretary/computer held desk-ish... Only talks when spoken too, period... Was capable of executing basic commands('Computer, ping google', would execute 'ping www.google.com')... Or do a safari/watson(mac users know this) type of internet browser that can retrieve and format airline info, movie times, tv schedules, pro game schedules, phone book... Or how about a google frontend?
This could have been a perfectly usable piece of software that could be the frontend for setting up cron jobs and other simple command line interfaces... could be clunky(harder than just typing the command in the terminal)... but future versions and a smart system could start to configure itself around your usage habits.
indeed... my site has some pretty interesting top ranks, that i have noticed...
*'edjumacated' the name of one of the members, is top ranked.
*'shold gay marriage be legalized' is number 3
*'controversial pictures of iraq' with regards to the flags over coffins, is ranked second.
Nothing rediculously impressive, except that mirwin.net(the site) has only been up in its current form since mid January. Quite an impressive jump to the top.
how about having the top rank be the slashdot article, or the SEO contest page itself?
I had a similar(read: identical) contest going on my website two weeks ago! This thread shows how i tried to link Vector Desist to my website, just for the hell of it. Oh well. This contest did 2 things better though... They did it as a true competition, while we did it just on our own website. And second, there words are more non-sensical, so you don't have to compete with existing page rankings
because a bluetooth beacon requires battery power, while a sticker with a smart-barcode on it would not.
yea, it is his 'baby' but it is released under and open license, why SHOULDN'T i be able to fork openbsd if i want? If Theo wants an unforkable OS, he shouldn't have started by forking netbsd in the first place!
that is easy, us fat, lazy americans CREATE wars by preemptively striking unfriendly governments... it is more fun that way.
It is $49.99 every where i have seen... in fact, i don't think i have seen a launch title over 50 dollars. And yes, I do own the game(bought well after launch).
that would require a microphone and some... *voice* recognition software. After that, it is still a simple scripting process...
by the way, when does voice recognition and AI get built into the kernel? is that a 3.0 feature?
Here is a novel idea... set your laptop to not show user icons(and thus give the person your screenname) and not auto login... THEN, set your home directory to be encrypted using a strong(STRONG!) password using... YUP, the builtin File Vault technology. Make a good backup before you encrypt, then setup regular off-laptop backups while it is encrypted.
If that isn't good enough for you, and i don't see why it wouldn't be, have your web browser's home page(or an applescript that runs every time it verifies a network connection) to post to a 'secret' webpage you have on your site... have it post its information(ip, blah blah) and timestamp it... this way, you have a clear record every time the laptop has a connection, and you can just take note whenever it has an entry while NOT in your posession.
how about some peercast action? off can do video, can't it? why not setup a p2p peercast channel of streaming ogg video with cowboyneal doing his best CNN news anchor impression as he reports on SCO, Linux and Microsoft...
I am trying to hold myself back from making some dup joke.
i would rather see TCP get updated with that college's improvements talked about a few weeks back... It made the window size scale much quicker to take advantage of broadband, rather than slowly, so as to saturate(or use to full potential) cable broadband more efficiently.
the technology can be executed at any of those level to be effective, not all 3 at once. So that means linux could get support for it at the kernel level... someone could write an application for windows, and palms could use an updated firmware and all 3 would effectively take advantage of the algo.
I agree...
In all honesty, if windows 98 could now(maybe with the latest unofficial SP) be shipped in a secure way, that played modern games somewhat well, it would likely never need to be replaced...
I mean, security aside, the ONLY reason people upgraded their home machines from 98se was newer machines, promises of better security(that XP did bring, not ME though), etc.
98se with stability improvements and bugfixes(both huge tasks, but a third edition could have been it) could have been the last OS home machines needed.
Heck, 2000 was, in most ways, the last OS business es needed.
or how about we get together, and send the corporations a HUGE public backlash? We buy our content, we want to use it in a reasonable way, they have no business trying to cripple that right.
Consumers put money in there pockets, we are the ones with the power, they answer to us, no vice versa.
well i do realize that, though didn't make it clear in my posting. First, I think a framework system could still be made, with proper work for such things taken into account.
Second, how do all these bills get such BS things to be attached and then fail? How do we avoiad, undo, stop, whatever, the effect of a reasonable bill getting unreasonable attachments pinned on it? That is such crap, it annoys me to no end. No legislative system is perfect, but if bill X v 1.1 (the revised by senate version you mentioned) would have passed then that bill turns into v 1.1.5 where several EXTRA things are attached, a couple arn't bad, one(or more) are really bad, how does the senate get to vote on only v 1.1 and not with the additional cruft?
the answer ofcourse being that TCP gaurantees delivery. UDP only does best-effort... your pr0n might transfer faster, but it is almost(extremely likely, esspecially given the size) to be very corrupt once recieved.. There will just be too many dropped packets.
Wha'dya know, I just had an idea for a website that would fit this.
Basicly, it was a 'framework' for a legislature(local, state, federal) that would cross-reference each bill or legislation with how each member voted... Want to know who is pro-abortion, simple query. Want to see all the Democrats that voted for Bush's XYZ legislation, simple stuff... Who is on what committee, and so on.
The beauty is, if this was done open source, then it could be applied to all 50 state legislatures (and other countries!) along with Congress, so there would be a fairly large(relative) demand for such a system.
no, one of the features of the unofficial service pack is getting rid of(or atleast raising to 1gig+, not sure) the memory limit bug.
when has google ever not been praised by slashdot? and for those who cite privacy concerns in gmail, they don't understand what they are talking about