The Future is here, now!

[erikboy (imported)]

This is astonishing, I could not hold back my emotions!

When computers are able to act like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpC2TXhJGkE

It is a whole new world! It is even more than HAL9000.

This is something I used to see in sci-fi movies in my childhood.

I got two major emotions. First is excitement of course. I see a huge future for that kind of technology.

There is a dark side as well. More and more people get addicted and there will be more complications we are not aware of yet. Some people might loose contact with real world.

You are warned, this is going to be an integral part of our lives as computers and internet is today!

[fhunter]

The question is - is this real, or is this scripted?

I have seen different parts of this technology (voice recognition, voice synthesis, computer vision (the part with hands and fish), but is this all joined together? Or was it programmed with a script?

And the weakest part - there is still no AI that will pass Turing test, at least, not to my knowledge. May be I have skipped something, but still....

So I stay skeptical, until I will see and try this myself.

[erikboy (imported)]

The question is - is this real, or is this scripted?

I have seen different parts of this technology (voice recognition, voice synthesis, computer vision (the part with hands and fish), but is this all joined together? Or was it programmed with a script?

And the weakest part - there is still no AI that will pass Turing test, at least, not to my knowledge. May be I have skipped something, but still....

So I stay skeptical, until I will see and try this myself.

I understand your scepticizm very well There is certainly no artificial intelligence. BUT, the excange of information between machine and human is much more effective when it is done via emotions.

The emotion part has been largery negleted in Man Machine Interface.

Now computerized personalities can be scripted and activated via such machines. For entertainment industry it is a huge possibility!

It is not reading text from computer screen... You could create a person like you do it in Second Life and then make it live and react as you want.

Could you imagine computergames with this kind of interaction?

....

Still no AI. But I hope you understood what I meant. I remember Chronicles of Mars by Ray Bradbury... There was a home that was living on his own... Or robots like 3CPO from Star wars... that is now possible! Technology is already there! You have to assemble it.

To be short, Computers can read emotions, work with emotions and emote themselves. This is something that havent been there before. It is a huge step!

More about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dmitri_Project

[bobberlove (imported)]

Erikboy,

I was amazed at the technological achievement also...and a little frightened. Amazed because it was yet another advanced gadget for the public...frightened because some nefarious government "out there" (U.S.A.?) could use this to "document" a person's "life history" and make the necessary changes in order to keep that person a ward of the state. This has obvious class meaning for to keep the lower class in its place, whoever owns the best technology, wins the war be it a conventional war, class war ...we know from history that wars are won based on who has the best technology from the time the ape invented the big club made from the jawbone of an ass.

Finally, Ray Bradbury wrote "The Martian Chronicles" which I read in 1975 in the back seat of an old Pontiac while camped on a river someplace in Washington.

[fhunter]

More about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dmitri_Project

Yes, now I more or less understand what it is. Interesting, but I still want to see myself.

To my shame, I realize that I do not remember much from "Martian Chronicles" - and was unable to find a book... time to find (ok, downloaded, and put on the pda) and reread

2 Bobberlove - you use search engines? Web mail? Google services? it is already documented.

[erikboy (imported)]

Yes, now I more or less understand what it is. Interesting, but I still want to see myself.

To my shame, I realize that I do not remember much from "Martian Chronicles" - and was unable to find a book... time to find (ok, downloaded, and put on the pda) and reread

2 Bobberlove - you use search engines? Web mail? Google services? it is already documented.

Today I was thinking again about the possibilities. Humans react 95% on emotions and 5% on Intelligence. Well, this is very different level now when a computer is able to detect emotions. There are over 300 different emotions described. Probably a computer could not recognize them all, but if recognizing 20 most basic ones it is still huge achievement.

Well. I have an Avatar in SecondLife. You could create an avatar you want to be there and then, imagine, you could give emotions to that avatar. Avatrs face will emote your real face emotions without the need to find correct gesture from inventory. Your avatars voice - not your voice, still with your emotions! Completely different experience.

It is getting close to Startrek Holodeck