Billie Walsh wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
Billie Walsh wrote:
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I don't think I've ever seen anyone give a time frame for this sort of thing. It IS in the future somewhere. But not impossible to achieve.
a) To do this you need good pattern recognition. Neural net based applications a still more than a bit limited in accuracy, reliability and range of usage. Finger scanning yes, facial recognition not yet by a long way. <snip> In England they are setting up a new airport screening device. You "register" with the agency and they take a computer picture of your face. When you get to the airport you slide in your passport and look into the camera. It "reads" a chip in your passport and compares the
On 01/11/2008 G T Smith wrote: picture to the one in the database. If there's a match, independent of hairstyle/color, makeup, etc., you get a "pass" to proceed. If no match you get t he cops called on you. In Oklahoma when you get your drivers license they take a picture for the computer database. When you renew your license you stand in front of the camera and if the pictures match you get a new license. If not............. Admittedly, when they first instituted the process several years ago they had some problem with things like hair style and length, but they have been working on the software and it is getting much better. Buy from the lowest bidder and you get cheap products. Facial recognition is becoming quite good. </snip>
b) The cognitive A.I. to deal with the semantics, intent, and action interpretation of human activity does not exist outside the lab.
"outside the lab" Does that mean that it's IN the lab?
Been in the 'lab' for quite some time... since 1960s at least...
<snip> But, it is still possible to do these things. Technology just has to catch up to the dream/idea. </snip>
futurology reminds of the the Monty Python sketch ... the one where the old women agree that astrology reading was good that although it got the green six foot lizard bit wrong they were right about the glasses...
<snip> *<[:oD Back in the late fifties and early sixties we all thought we would have moon bases by the end of the century. There has to be the "will" to do things. If the will isn't there .......... Then again, sometimes technology has to catch up to our ideas/dreams. It was a science fiction writer that envisioned global communications with geostationary satellites long before there were even satellites of any type. Arthur C. Clarke. He also envisioned the space elevator which only now some are beginning to think might just be possible. Someone reads the idea and says,"Hey what a neat idea. I think I know how to do it." So begins years of research. Then someone makes a breakthrough in technology and by george it does work. For how many thousands of years "we" had to walk or ride beasts of burden. A couple hundred years ago the rail road came along. That was cutting edge transportation for over a hundred years. Just over a hundred years ago the automobile started to appear on the scene. Just about a hundred years ago men learned how to fly in heavier than air craft. Today we have the ability to go the other planets. The point I'm trying to make is that technology has "exploded" in the last hundred years. At this point, barring Armageddon, if technology keeps going as it has there's no telling where we will be in another hundred years. </snip>
Yes punctuation has to be defines. However, while we still use written documentation the keyboard is the fastest and most efficient way of creating text. A good keyboard can achieve data input speeds that exceed speech, stylus or any other current or proposed input mechanism. What voice recognition could provide is a humanised interface in situations where keyboard is not appropriate or required.
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I think that would depend on ones typing prowess. I can definitely talk faster than I can type. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org