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Mr Thompson posts and interesting idea on his site, about something he’d like his computer to do for him in the future.
I don’t disagree with what has been said, how can I it’s one persons wish.
However it did spark me thinking about what might be required to do what’s being suggested. Once you get past the camera and new images being spotted, and onto object recognition, memory recognition, classification and labelling. As such I think we’re moving into the area of AI, or plain learning.
Either way, I started to think about the work required to write such software. Bearing in mind the current state of AI, quite a lot I’d suspect. So you have to ask whether the camera manufacturer would be willing to invest that time and effort into writing the software for their camera. Probably unlikely.
I think what would be more beneficial would be to advance the computer/OS as a whole, and in general. So that rather than the OS being as it is now, it instead is an AI system. That way the tasks Mr Thompson desires can be achieved as part of a general framework rather than something left specifically to a camera manufacturer.
So, how far are we away from an AI enabled OS that’s sufficiently able to comprehend, learn and understand that it can achieve simple tasks like those described. Probably quite a long way. Part of this I fear isn’t restricted by computing power, but more by our understanding of AI, and our ability to code applications that work.
Once we’ve come up with a nice general framework rather than a highly specific chatbot, then maybe we’ll stand a chance of making an OS that will learn with us, doing the things we want it to, and in a much less rule based way.
Computing power will help no doubt, but we also need the know-how and code in the first place.
Posted by Phil on February 11, 2006 12:43 PM | Categories: Thoughts
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Now this is interesting.
If this ever comes about, and personally I think it will, though not in the next decade or so.
Once AI aware PC's become the norm, I suspect that there then might be a call for more 'user' input to have individual control over what is going on. So we would be back to the beginning again.
Still, it all depends on what sells and in the long run what the customer thinks he wants.
Posted by: etwell at February 12, 2006 7:02 AM