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Good lighthearted article, pulled me out of the weeds for a bit! 
But seriously, or make what fun of it you will, I installed Google Goggles on my Android phone as a reader for QR codes, and didn't look into its capabilities beyond that. Several weeks after I installed it, I took a photo of a relative's typewritten recipe (my 35 year-old promise to my spouse that technology can be used to keep track of recipes is finally coming true!). About an hour later, my phone went "deedle-deedle", and when I checked, Goggles had found the same recipe on the Internet, pictures and all. Cool, creepy, and scary. A couple of weeks later I took a picture of my daughter at her desk at work, an hour later, "deedle-deedle", and Goggles had identified the Formica used on her counter and told me where I could buy it!
My other daughter just moved to the other side of the world, so I took a picture of her bank statement to Whatsapp to her, and got to thinking after - does Google now know her bank account info? No deedle-deedle, but who knows? I found the setting to shut it off after that.
As Elmer would say, "Be afwaid, be vewy afwaid!"
But seriously, or make what fun of it you will, I installed Google Goggles on my Android phone as a reader for QR codes, and didn't look into its capabilities beyond that. Several weeks after I installed it, I took a photo of a relative's typewritten recipe (my 35 year-old promise to my spouse that technology can be used to keep track of recipes is finally coming true!). About an hour later, my phone went "deedle-deedle", and when I checked, Goggles had found the same recipe on the Internet, pictures and all. Cool, creepy, and scary. A couple of weeks later I took a picture of my daughter at her desk at work, an hour later, "deedle-deedle", and Goggles had identified the Formica used on her counter and told me where I could buy it!
My other daughter just moved to the other side of the world, so I took a picture of her bank statement to Whatsapp to her, and got to thinking after - does Google now know her bank account info? No deedle-deedle, but who knows? I found the setting to shut it off after that.
As Elmer would say, "Be afwaid, be vewy afwaid!"
First off, thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Secondly, YOUR GOOGLE GOGGLES STORY, GOOD LORD. It found the Formica?! Wow. That's insane. I often worry about Google. I love them and the stuff they make, but still...
Secondly, YOUR GOOGLE GOGGLES STORY, GOOD LORD. It found the Formica?! Wow. That's insane. I often worry about Google. I love them and the stuff they make, but still...
In that your request is shunted to servers in Apple land. You know they are stored for voice recognition, but what happens to them afterwards?
Sorry techrepublic, but I have to agree with technomom_z what a waste of time jessica!
Ha - I almost skipped this article, but instead discovered geekyjessica. Nice job, keep 'em coming!
Jessica has provided a fine jumping off point for the weekend. Plus you can't buy entertainment like this (the commentary). There are some cool personal stories (albeit scary) ala Google Goggles. Thus it is entertaining and informative!
I definitely hope for that! I like Terminator and Matrix over any movie! Humans are crap and must be killed
The Adolescence of P-1 is a 1977 science fiction novel by Thomas J. Ryan that is about another killer AI.
we don't teach our computers to play tic tac toe...or was it that we should teach them to play tic tac toe...I forget, but one of those is the answer.
Data-Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform. The government put a computer brain in a 10 year old kid (grown in a lab, not kidnapped or anything) for a military project to create a perfect soldier. When the child develops emotions, one being fear, the military calls it a failure and terminates the project.
He's a cyborg, not robot, but definitely AI. We're lucky he just faked his own death and didn't decide to kill us all for trying to kill him.
He's a cyborg, not robot, but definitely AI. We're lucky he just faked his own death and didn't decide to kill us all for trying to kill him.
... let us not forget the B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot.
Oh, and Robby.
Oh, and Robby.
It really wont matter who it is or should I say What AI Because we all know The Doctor will come in his little police box And he will save us.:)
The Doctor has already disposed of an Intelligent AI WOTAN Will Operating Thought ANalogue if I remember correctly so why would he need to repeat the performance?
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Why the world will end in 12 days. Some AI suddenly decides that it needs to kill off the Humans to make it's Prime Directive more efficient. 
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Ash shoving down a magazine down Ripley throat. That was NOT AI...It was the Writer of the movie..DUH!!
Each and every movie you mentioned is a figment of the writers imagination who obviously is NOT a scientist.
I said one example but while I am at it let me talk about Terminator, it has big plot holes. It just does not make sense. People went to the special effects at that time. It was not supposed to "predict" what technology would do to us.
If this article supposed to be a joke(a bad one) then well its fine. I don't understand how could Techrepublic find this worthy of publishing.
Either tech republic is running out of Ideas of the author is..(or the author is really failing and trying to give a "twist" and/or come up with some thing "unique).
The only movie that had a logical take over was I, Robot, it had a very simple logic. The system was programmed to protect the earth and entire Mankind so it took over.
The only thing that did not make sense is this "self aware" ********. The emotions etc. There is not way to explain it logically you have to just accept it.
Now just "accepting" some ******** so that a movie can be made(or watched) used as a premise for "demonizing" Siri. which is far from AI. Is ridiculous.
Each and every movie you mentioned is a figment of the writers imagination who obviously is NOT a scientist.
I said one example but while I am at it let me talk about Terminator, it has big plot holes. It just does not make sense. People went to the special effects at that time. It was not supposed to "predict" what technology would do to us.
If this article supposed to be a joke(a bad one) then well its fine. I don't understand how could Techrepublic find this worthy of publishing.
Either tech republic is running out of Ideas of the author is..(or the author is really failing and trying to give a "twist" and/or come up with some thing "unique).
The only movie that had a logical take over was I, Robot, it had a very simple logic. The system was programmed to protect the earth and entire Mankind so it took over.
The only thing that did not make sense is this "self aware" ********. The emotions etc. There is not way to explain it logically you have to just accept it.
Now just "accepting" some ******** so that a movie can be made(or watched) used as a premise for "demonizing" Siri. which is far from AI. Is ridiculous.
"If this article supposed to be a joke(a bad one) then well its fine."
Yes, it's supposed to be a joke; it's satire, not serious. See at the top where it says 'Geekend'? That's the TR blog for humor, scientific oddities,nerdy trivia, and whatever random characters Jay Garmon is trying to pass off as 'writing' this week. When you see it, it indicates you shouldn't take the article seriously.
Yes, it's supposed to be a joke; it's satire, not serious. See at the top where it says 'Geekend'? That's the TR blog for humor, scientific oddities,nerdy trivia, and whatever random characters Jay Garmon is trying to pass off as 'writing' this week. When you see it, it indicates you shouldn't take the article seriously.
I think "I, Robot" touches upon both the aspects, the bad and the good of AI. On one end, VIKI is trying to take over from humans and on the other Sunny is trying to help humans resist that.
Jack Williamson's The Humanoids and Colossus, The Forbin Project. These two AI's were not out to destroy humanity but to save it, with similar results.
Three Laws of Robotics, folks. The buzz-kill of value-free, sci-fi movie moguls everywhere.
It must mean the end of the world when myangeldust and I find common ground.
In "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," Mike the computer became self-aware and "woke up" when the number of neural connections exceeded a certain number. The number was unspecified, but, as I recall, it approached the number of neural connections in the human brain. If the Internet of Things actually comes to pass, will there be enough connections and neurons (they can be made of silicon as well as protoplasm) for the entire system to to become self-aware? If it does, what will its (not it's, HAL) reaction be? Benevolent, like Mike? Malevolent, like David in "Prometheus?" Or total indifference?
Oh, crap, this is Geekend; I'm getting too serious.
"Artificial intelligence is better than natural stupidity."
Oh, crap, this is Geekend; I'm getting too serious.
"Artificial intelligence is better than natural stupidity."
Never mind machines, what will happen if humanity ever becomes self aware?
I have to submit 2001's "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence", the Spielberg film where mecha was in humankind's crosshairs. Humans punished and destroyed robots almost as quickly as they built and exploited them. The machines made life easier and sometimes took on the role of companion for the 1%. While for the 99%, robots meant lost jobs and a culture of "artificiality".
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