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This November is pretty heavy for geeks & Singularity lovers (I'm one of them). First we saw a man-made machine landing/crash-landing 500 millions KM from Eart
by tegeek 12y ago
This November is pretty heavy for geeks & Singularity lovers (I'm one of them).
First we saw a man-made machine landing/crash-landing 500 millions KM from Earth.
Then HN discussed this [1] which is IMO one of the biggest machine-learning demo I've ever seen (other than Self-driving cars).
And now this futuristic tech which is aiming to eliminate the screens altogether. (As some of its use cases)
If Magic Leap delivers her promise within next 2-3 years, then we are already ahead than Singularity timeline [2].
1. http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/ http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil#2019 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwei...
- melling 12y agoHow can we be "ahead of schedule" when we still don't have the first couple tasks from a decade ago? Dictation, for example, is pretty good but it's not a solved problem. * Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages. * Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil#Early_2000s http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzw...
- tegeek 12y ago>> Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages. The technology is there to build this kind of device, I agree not 100% accurate but still practical enough to be used in real life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IraqComm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IraqComm >> Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words This too, the technology is there to build a device. I would say we've much more powerful devices in form of smart phones than just doing 1 or 2 things. The talko app on iPhone is actually much more than just speech to text converter. http://www.talko.com/ http://www.talko.com/ I would also like to say that Singularity predictions doesn't employ that the technology will be so mainstream that every person will be using that. But even if we can build a technology in some lab, it still becomes an event on Singularity timetable. I've yet to see any off the mark prediction from Singularity timeline.
- angersock 12y agoThe funny thing to me is that this is quite possibly already solved, and it's just being fed into a big data center in Utah.