video.google.com— Back in 1987/1988, Apple made promotional videos for a concept device called the Knowledge Navigator, which would be the computer of 2010. An interesting look back... and forward.
Jun 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
Yeah, I love the speech stuff in OSX, but to be honest, I'd never use it all the time. It's not much of a stretch though to see what we've got now advancing to that point.
A.I. is so far off from this level of sophistication that we may as well be fantasizing about our Macs wiping ours chins and and changing our adult diapers in the future. We'll all be dead or in a home/hospice before a computer can engage in casual conversation like this video depicts. Today's supposed A.I. is little more than parlor tricks using restricted grammar, vocabulary and very limited subject matter. Turing tests on A.I. these days get close to passing only when the subject matter is limited to one single topic and then only through the use keyboard and monitor interfaces.
Interesting. Today's AI is not nearly where they expected and voice recognitions isn't close. Somebody said we are almost there with the latest and greatest technologies. But a more realistic advertisement for todays world would be somebody speaking and in the middle of a conversation, the call drops out or is lost. Whether that's on a cell phone, skype, vonage or whatever else. There would be a thousand different ads popping up all over the place. And instead of what this guy had listed for to do and schedule it would be a list of "I'm eating at mcdonalds. I forgot to pick up Junior. I'm listening to another podcast. I'm reading Digg."
The most technologically interesting and improbable part is in the beginning, when the IA makes sense of various data and presents it in a human way (with a strong sense of analysis of what to excerpt, for example). And this is indeed what Google is pushing, and learning to do at the moment. But I guess Apple are too busy making mp3 players.
scrumfritterJun 3, 2007
Yeah, I love the speech stuff in OSX, but to be honest, I'd never use it all the time. It's not much of a stretch though to see what we've got now advancing to that point.
pyroboy1080Jun 3, 2007
Not so far off
mal1964Jun 3, 2007
must be a new girlfriend to be giving her a ride to the airport.I also see the rainbow apple is coming back.
texmachinaJun 3, 2007
A.I. is so far off from this level of sophistication that we may as well be fantasizing about our Macs wiping ours chins and and changing our adult diapers in the future. We'll all be dead or in a home/hospice before a computer can engage in casual conversation like this video depicts. Today's supposed A.I. is little more than parlor tricks using restricted grammar, vocabulary and very limited subject matter. Turing tests on A.I. these days get close to passing only when the subject matter is limited to one single topic and then only through the use keyboard and monitor interfaces.
chileangodJun 4, 2007
That was my point, the guy would get nominated for a novel prize just for asking something to the machine. Big scientist right there.
pjam3Jun 4, 2007
Interesting. Today's AI is not nearly where they expected and voice recognitions isn't close. Somebody said we are almost there with the latest and greatest technologies. But a more realistic advertisement for todays world would be somebody speaking and in the middle of a conversation, the call drops out or is lost. Whether that's on a cell phone, skype, vonage or whatever else. There would be a thousand different ads popping up all over the place. And instead of what this guy had listed for to do and schedule it would be a list of "I'm eating at mcdonalds. I forgot to pick up Junior. I'm listening to another podcast. I'm reading Digg."
ciprianlupeanuJun 4, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://duggtrends.com/">http://duggtrends.com/</a>
pailsofgreaseJun 4, 2007
I thought Bow-tie guy was just his gay graduate assistant.
jeddycakesJun 5, 2007
Pretentious, bow-tie sporting, gay-haired little tit.He would seriously piss me off in the course of the working day.
dstzJun 10, 2007
The most technologically interesting and improbable part is in the beginning, when the IA makes sense of various data and presents it in a human way (with a strong sense of analysis of what to excerpt, for example). And this is indeed what Google is pushing, and learning to do at the moment. But I guess Apple are too busy making mp3 players.
veradoriaJun 15, 2007
"Excuse me, your pornography collection has been updated by one plushie porno. Would you care to view it now?"
toldikaJan 6, 2012
ok