Posts by Dave800

CIMON says: Say hello to your new AI pal-bot, space station 'nauts

The amazing thing about this 'product' is that top-notch AI engineers must have laboured long into the night to create this thing - so it really tells you exactly how advanced AI technology has become!

It makes you wonder if they have run out of research to do on the ISS.

Winter is coming for AI. Fortunately, non-sci-fi definitions are actually doing worthwhile stuff

It may remove a lot of drudge work for someone bilinual in the relevant languages. Indeed I know someone who does translations by using GOOGLE translate followed by carefully fixing the result.

The problem is, if you don't know the original language, you can't tell when the automatic translation contains a conceptual error.

Re: Let's not start patting each other on the back just yet.

So has someone written such an AI application? Lots of projects can seem like perfect AI applications until you start to look at the details.

I am very cynical about AI, having experienced what happened in the 1980's. It was just the same as now, with all the hype but without the threat of AI controlled cars.

The idea of a driver-less car sounds great, until all the qualifications are spelled out - such as that these cars might be restricted to motorways, and would have to revert to manual control in other circumstances - so you can't be driven home after a boozy party, nor can you send your children somewhere alone by car, nor can you start a walk at point A and tell the car to meet you up at point B!

A real driver-less car would have to figure out whether a child (or adult) was likely to blunder into the road, whether a lorry shedding some of its load was a danger or not, understand the difference between a horse with rider, and one without (which I encountered once on a motorway), recognise the sound of some piece of debris getting stuck under the car, etc etc.

The 1980's AI hype was dominated by the idea of Logic Programming, which is hardly ever mentioned nowadays. LP was great at figuring out family relationships, but only if nobody was adopted, changed sex, or whatever! There is no steady progress towards AI - just a series of hype fuelled lurches.

Is your smart device a bit thick? It's about to get a lot worse

Horrible development!

I hate reports of this sort of development. As far as I can see, AI has yet to prove itself - it failed after much hype in the 1980's and that is enough for me.

Why would anyone want to entrust their health to such a dodgy piece of technology, and why would anyone want to be permanently plugged into a virtual doctor anyway?

Most people will see such an app as a 'bit of fun' but some people get hooked by hypochondria and I am sure it can make life a misery. We will all die one day, so it is better to enjoy life!