deanb Posted February 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Some of the stuff they talk about it could do kind of require a camera, which this doesn't have (though Google Glass does). Price is the unmentioned issue, and many people don't like wearing glasses if they don't "need to" (as we saw with 3-D in cinema). Also smartwatches haven't hugely taken off and I'd say over glasses they're a little bit better in that they can be more interactive and you can wear watches in more situations compared to people wearing glasses that "don't need to". I'll be honest a biggy for me would be if I could have something that'd give me names of people I meet that I know from previous events, but as mentioned that'd need a camera (and some heavy processing, though that's fine to be passed on to a phone). Or doing presentations having the speakers notes right in front of me. I guess we shall see how this develops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 16 hours ago, deanb said: I'll be honest a biggy for me would be if I could have something that'd give me names of people I meet that I know from previous events, but as mentioned that'd need a camera (and some heavy processing, though that's fine to be passed on to a phone). That would be so amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted February 11, 2018 Report Share Posted February 11, 2018 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted February 13, 2018 Report Share Posted February 13, 2018 Guys... I'm not too sure about this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted February 13, 2018 Report Share Posted February 13, 2018 Dear lord, their AI has reached velociraptor level! InGen has to be involved somehow! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 I don't think we need to worry about the AI Singularity anytime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 Actually, all these text generation bots scare me with how good they are. Like, obviously that story is dumb and ridiculous, but it's coherent enough that you can actually follow it. Lines make sense in context with previous lines, there's back and forth, ideas carry throughout the scene (like being inside the whale), and it brings in outside knowledge (like that blood shouldn't be outside your body and that it would bother someone if it was). That means that bot is already better at creating cohesive stories than any living thing besides humans. Hell, that could easily have been written by a human child. Given how fast technology develops that indicates to me that we're coming up on machines that are smarter than us way faster than it seems like. *This is all assuming of course that these things are real, and not written by humans. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 Ehhhh... I'd go with the "not real" thing, at least not something put together by that poster since he had a bot 'watch' Saw films, and it outputted a script that was formatted in the same way a script would be. So at best it was fed a bunch of Saw scripts. I think someone linked the bot-written Harry Potter before but if not:http://botnik.org/content/harry-potter.html There are still a bunch of things written by bots. I believe quite a lot of sport reports are bot written given as long as you have the relevant stats a bot can competently put together much of the rest. There's services for bot written reports as well. This is what Associated Press use:https://automatedinsights.com/case-studies/associated-press Here's Washington Post bot written sport report:https://www.washingtonpost.com/allmetsports/2017-fall/games/football/87055/?utm_term=.c0d1fda74c6a 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted March 20, 2018 Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 Pretty sure this is NOT what we have in mind for this thread but Losing a limb is a bit less shitty when you can become Rockman. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2018 This is also almost the exact opposite of this thread but pretty interesting none the less. Quite like this channel with some of the quirky tech of years gone by 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 (edited) To continue with the literal march of technology... There's some visualization of the data it uses it get around in this video. For this run, there was a manual run to gather route data beforehand. I guess the processing speed is just not there yet to make on-the-fly route decisions? And there is this. I think in five years, I would not be surprised if it start hiking up mountain trails here in California during the summer. Edited May 10, 2018 by Mal 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted May 11, 2018 Report Share Posted May 11, 2018 https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 11, 2018 Report Share Posted May 11, 2018 @Mal Weird that on the SpotMini it looks like its collision avoidance sensors don't look very far ahead. @MetalCaveman That is amazing and terrifying. I for one, etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 16, 2018 Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 Well that's terrifying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted June 21, 2018 Report Share Posted June 21, 2018 (edited) Prosthetic can now have the sense of touch and with it: pain. Video of it: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/mwjm7l7g41u3mbt2dvaa.mp4 Edited June 21, 2018 by Mal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 Fancy new stunt bots from Disney. I wonder if you'd still enjoy as much knowing it's robots doing all this. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 1, 2018 Report Share Posted July 1, 2018 From what I understand these are just for their animatronic shows, so it's already robots doing everything, and this just expands their abilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted July 1, 2018 Report Share Posted July 1, 2018 I'd enjoy it more knowing robots are doing it - it's more impressive for now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted July 21, 2018 Report Share Posted July 21, 2018 I guess this is the nearest thing we have to a science thread, I wonder if it's worth creating one? When I was a child, my father would take me trout fishing, and I spent hours marveling from the riverbank at the trouts’ ability to, seemingly effortlessly, hold their position in the fast-moving water. As it turns out, those trout really were swimming effortlessly, in a manner demonstrated above. The fish you see here swimming behind the obstacle is dead. There’s nothing powering it, except the energy its flexible body can extract from the flow around it. The obstacle sheds a wake of alternating vortices into the flow, and when the fish is properly positioned in that wake, the vortices themselves flex the fish’s body such that its head and its tail point in different directions. Under just the right conditions, there’s actually a resonance between the vortices and the fish’s body that generates enough thrust to overcome the fish’s drag. This means the fish can actually swim upstream without expending any energy of its own! The researchers came across this entirely by accident, and one of the questions that remains is how the trout is able to sense its surroundings well enough to intentionally take advantage of the effect. (Image and research credit: D. Beal et al.; via PhysicsBuzz; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh) http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2018/07/watch-how-does-dead-fish-swim-upstream.html 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 23, 2018 Report Share Posted July 23, 2018 That is equal parts cool and ghoulish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCBTZh41Ris Obviously not perfect at all, but given what we've got with the likes of deepfakes n such too it'll not be too long until end up with videos of people doing things they didn't do. Yay!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 30, 2018 Report Share Posted August 30, 2018 Hooray! Combined with that voice synthesizing software soon we'll never know what is real and what is not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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