There has always been a flaw in Ray Kurzweil's AI visions.
Ray Kurzweil 20 years ago was predicting that voice activated typewriters (VATs) would replace word processors and typewriters within five years. That became a mantra of his for over 10 years. And as the media darling of the 80s the press gave him the podium to pound on that drum year after year. It was always 2 to 5 years out, for over 10 years.
He finally shut up about that after he sold his company to the Belgium company that bought his vision hook, line and sinker, that great facilitator of the voice market, Lernout & Hauspie. L&H is no longer having been mercifully put to death because of fraud in attempting to inflate the market for voice recognition applications.
Ray didn't get it then about the limits of hardware and software interaction , and more importantly he didn't get the complexity of human hearing and understanding, and he doesn't get it now.
Ray should stick to music and personal appearances with Stevie Wonder. But then again he has worn out that media darling AI vehicle. Now he is on to another AI vision. When will the media ever learn.
Ditto on both your points, pain and bigots.
As a red head, a flamer in my younger years, I have had similar experiences with major ops and medication. I had an appendectomy at age 16. When the countdown from 10 didn't work they had me countdown from 100. When I got down to 40 they finally decided up the dose and told me they would start cutting even if I was still awake (somehow that motivated to go to sleep, seriously). Later in life, after a 'grab your ankles because one of the engines is just blew up' flight, I had to take tranquilizers just to get on subsequet flights. Even after taking three times the normal dosage just to get on the plane I would hardly feel a thing. It stunned my doctor as he said I should have fallen asleep before I even got on the plane. During 4 RK (eye) surgeries I had to be given double to triple the dosages of pre-op tranquilzers and post-op pain killers. I have also woken up during general anesthesia (awaking to the sight of an oral surgeon with massive recontructive facial surgery, again, no kidding).
I wish I could say something cute and funny about being picked on by bigots as a skinny, thickly bespeckled, heavily freckled red head, but my sense of humor fails me at this point. While the bigotry lessened as I got older and more imposing at 6'2" and nearly 200 lbs, it didn't make my fuse any shorter. The sensitivity to abuse, both physical and emotional, has been lifelong. It makes you want to become a Buddhist.
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There has always been a flaw in Ray Kurzweil's AI visions. Ray Kurzweil 20 years ago was predicting that voice activated typewriters (VATs) would replace word processors and typewriters within five years. That became a mantra of his for over 10 years. And as the media darling of the 80s the press gave him the podium to pound on that drum year after year. It was always 2 to 5 years out, for over 10 years. He finally shut up about that after he sold his company to the Belgium company that bought his vision hook, line and sinker, that great facilitator of the voice market, Lernout & Hauspie. L&H is no longer having been mercifully put to death because of fraud in attempting to inflate the market for voice recognition applications. Ray didn't get it then about the limits of hardware and software interaction , and more importantly he didn't get the complexity of human hearing and understanding, and he doesn't get it now. Ray should stick to music and personal appearances with Stevie Wonder. But then again he has worn out that media darling AI vehicle. Now he is on to another AI vision. When will the media ever learn.
Ditto on both your points, pain and bigots. As a red head, a flamer in my younger years, I have had similar experiences with major ops and medication. I had an appendectomy at age 16. When the countdown from 10 didn't work they had me countdown from 100. When I got down to 40 they finally decided up the dose and told me they would start cutting even if I was still awake (somehow that motivated to go to sleep, seriously). Later in life, after a 'grab your ankles because one of the engines is just blew up' flight, I had to take tranquilizers just to get on subsequet flights. Even after taking three times the normal dosage just to get on the plane I would hardly feel a thing. It stunned my doctor as he said I should have fallen asleep before I even got on the plane. During 4 RK (eye) surgeries I had to be given double to triple the dosages of pre-op tranquilzers and post-op pain killers. I have also woken up during general anesthesia (awaking to the sight of an oral surgeon with massive recontructive facial surgery, again, no kidding). I wish I could say something cute and funny about being picked on by bigots as a skinny, thickly bespeckled, heavily freckled red head, but my sense of humor fails me at this point. While the bigotry lessened as I got older and more imposing at 6'2" and nearly 200 lbs, it didn't make my fuse any shorter. The sensitivity to abuse, both physical and emotional, has been lifelong. It makes you want to become a Buddhist.