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What's Kurzweil's motive? He's a visionary who can deliver a finished product. I think he must have some pretty specific ideas, and he wants to partner with Go
by nealabq 14y ago
What's Kurzweil's motive?
He's a visionary who can deliver a finished product. I think he must have some pretty specific ideas, and he wants to partner with Google.
A few guesses:
- New interfaces to replace keyboard/mouse/touch. Voice, gesture, face, brainwaves. Sign language with humming, blinking, and pupil pointing. Works with tablets, TVs, wearables, cars, buildings, ATMs, etc.
- SuperPets (r) that can pass the Turing test. And do the shopping.
- Surgically implanted Bluetooth. (It could literally be a tooth!)
- Hover skateboards.
- The Matrix. (Or the 13th Floor, which was a better movie in my not-so humble opinion.)
I don't think it'll have to do with life-extension though. That's just too crazy far out-there.
- kanzure 14y ago> - New interfaces to replace keyboard/mouse/touch. Voice, gesture, face, brainwaves. Unfortunately, it turns out you can only get a limited number of bits out by looking at brainwaves (EEG). Gesture is much higher bandwidth, and keyboards seem to be the highest.
- rpm4321 14y agofMRI is extremely high bandwidth and still in its infancy, and we are currently getting pretty good performance from relatively basic invasive neural implants on the disabled. I've read a couple of interesting articles on breakthroughs regarding the miniaturization of fMRI technology, so I think it's safe to say that keyboards will not be the highest bandwidth interface in the decades to come.
- kanzure 14y agoI agree that there's useful information in the brain that we can extract. EEG isn't that method. I love fMRI as much as the next guy. fMRI isn't reading "brainwaves". It images a correlate of neuronal oxygen depletion which indicates metabolism and activity. waves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography#Wave_patterns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography#Wave_pat... versus this awesomeness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemodynamic_response#Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemodynamic_response#Functional...
- nealabq 14y agoBut American Sign Language is gestures, and it seems higher bandwidth than spoken English. Just an informal uninformed observation, I don't know ASL. And I can't type as fast as I can talk. So I'm thinking gesticulating > speaking > typing.
- kanzure 14y ago> And I can't type as fast as I can talk. Some of us can. http://www.seanwrona.com/typeracer/profile.php?username=kanzure http://www.seanwrona.com/typeracer/profile.php?username=kanz... Well, almost. Mobile interfaces certainly aren't helping. I am not sure how much I would like a vocal way of typing out code, but I suspect I wouldn't.
- bquarant 14y agoSaving this post to laugh at later.