21–30 of 63 posts
I am going to take a step back from the technical merits of this and say the whole thing seems sad. I don't need a need a dog collar on my neck or a badge on my shirt. Lastly, you know life is over when you spend your time talking and hanging out with a AI bot. Our society has become so isolated because people are on Facebook and Instagram instead of talking to each other.
I am going to take a step back from the technical merits of this and say the whole thing seems sad. I don't need a need a dog collar on my neck or a badge on my shirt. Lastly, you know life is over when you spend your time talking and hanging out with a AI bot. Our society has become so isolated because people are on Facebook and Instagram instead of talking to each other.
I am going to take a step back from the technical merits of this and say the whole thing seems sad. I don't need a need a dog collar on my neck or a badge on my shirt. Lastly, you know life is over when you spend your time talking and hanging out with a AI bot. Our society has become so isolated because people are on Facebook and Instagram instead of talking to each other.
Disagree. Growing up on the internet gave me a sense of community and belonging that I never found in my hometown. The internet and social media can both be incredibly connecting things (that is their purpose after all, right?).
A clip on camera you can take with you while jogging or in a museum, and it talks to you? It would be pretty embarrassing to be seen with it. This would work out better in professional settings, such as in a hospital, providing help to doctors.
That's what museum tour guides, human or automated, do today.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea would be that the Asteria device learns to interact with you in social norms, like how you would act. And with that, some locations are better than others, but it really evolves to converse with you in your daily life, to help fill your needs.
This is your startup, I'm not sure why you're speaking in the hypothetical "would be." You either know what your product does, or it doesn't.
I'm sick and tired of all these technologies that pretend to be AI, while they're just some ML or DL (DeepLearnin') algorithms going on... Some words have become so vague and ambiguous in the computer world that sometimes I wish we would stop using them altogether, like: who is a hacker, what is AI, what is Cloud, etc. Siri, GoogleNow, Cortana, Amazon Echo and others claim to be "intelligent" of some sort, but they'r…
I agree the term has become somewhat throw-away, but to be fair any AI system probably IS just ML/DL algorithms. That is, ML/DL are avenues to create AI. I think most people would agree that AlphaGo is an example of AI and was achieved via DL, so by that definition it's just some DL algorithms.
Really curious about how this will pan out as everything said in the article screams at me like someone has no clue how difficult making the device is going to be, regardless of how much ”AI” runs on it. Hardware is really hard.
The hardware didn't sound like anything too special to me; especially with it only needing to handle audio. Fitting enough processing power to handle realtime "AI" in a package that size is the only thing jumping out at me. I'm sure they would be planning to offload that work to some 'cloud' to crunch though. (I personally dislike functionless, network-dependent hardware, but everybody seems to be doing it...)
Promising to deliver an AI that people could see as a friend is absolutely insane though. I don't see people being friends with something that couldn't complete the Turing Test, which will likely stand for at least another decade. Speech recognition and synthesis are in fairly good places, but not human interaction that isn't transparently shallow.
I heartily recommend Kill Process (2016) by William Hertling, where a startup trying to bootstrap a social network uses AI to avoid empty network problem. The novel describes the version of this "done right" pretty well. Right now, you can find the version of this "done wrong" in "dating site" populated by chatbots.
Synopsis from the publisher:
> By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women.
> When Tomo introduces a deceptive new product that preys on users’ fears to drive up its own revenue, Angie sees Tomo for what it really is—another evil abuser. Using her coding and hacking expertise, she decides to destroy Tomo by building a new social network that is completely distributed, compartmentalized, and unstoppable. If she succeeds, it will be the end of all centralized power in the Internet.
> But how can an anti-social, one-armed programmer with too many dark secrets succeed when the world’s largest tech company is out to crush her and a no-name government black ops agency sets a psychopath to look into her growing digital footprint?
Really curious about how this will pan out as everything said in the article screams at me like someone has no clue how difficult making the device is going to be, regardless of how much ”AI” runs on it. Hardware is really hard.
[0] http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-7000...