Jones— I agree with your sentiments about windows-10. It’s a nightmare compared to Vista, for example.
In the future I will look for greener grass and a user friendly operating system—probably Apple. Bob Cook From: Jones Beene Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 2:07 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:12 years from now Here is a provocative audio clip which is an artful melange of two AIs - HAL 9000 (From 2001) interacting with Samantha (from Her). The clip presents the appearance of emotion and conflict deriving from different programming styles. It also introduces the idea that the first AI implementations, which are evolving from what we now call a "chatbot" or IPA (intelligent personal assistant) will have emotional content, whether we want that or not. http://www.slashfilm.com/hal-9000-and-samantha-from-her-argue/ IBM's Watson computer is more than a chess wizzard and has been used as the basis for chatbot-based educational devices (which kids prefer to teachers) and then there is Siri and Cortana and Amazon's Alexa, are of which are quite useful, even in relatively crude form... but they hint at the near future. Imagine giving these a boost by four orders of magnitude improvement - and we will be approaching a paradigm shift in early AI which is far from the Singularity event, but worth planning for (even saving for). Using Moore's law dynamics, Sam/HAL as a commercial device in the early but useful form of AI is possible the end of 2020. If you had to pick an investment vehicle to exploit this early AI, Microsoft is low risk and they are introducing a botbuilder software service this month, as we speak. It is a Natural Language Understanding chatterbot offering called OnlineBotBuilder. (I have no connection to MS and hate Win10 so this is not a real endorsement). But I would love to have an intelligent personal assistant so long as it was more like Samantha and less like HAL. It would be lovely as open-source but the complexity seems to point another way.
