lol or Computer earl grey hot! On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are already robotic vacuum cleaners you can buy, for example the > iRobot Roomba 980. Imagine a smart home where you can say "computer, when > was the last time we cleaned the apartment?" or "computer, clean the > apartment, please". I would like that. > > -Jochen > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> > Date: 4/14/16 19:09 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Andy Rubin and the Actuated Internet — NewCo Shift — > Medium > > Hmm- > I am a little skeptical about the smart home thing, but we shall see. > > I suppose the reason I'm skeptical is mostly because when day-to-day > things such as phones, printers or even just getting some groceries are > kind of a mixed touch are meh to use > Google has a bad rep for "fixing" how there webpage works(for example). I > don't know how many people got to use NAVI/Sherpy a sort of AI grad project > that eventually found it self in Android. What made it realy nice and kind > of a head of it's time was it had a desktop version and then would hop to > your phone. > The desktop version you could use a mic and talk to it like a person > (somewhat) it'd do it's best to do a bunch of things from get directions to > read articles. While the smaller minion version was much more limited but > still useful (help me take a picture of this beach for example) > > Some legit concerns started to come up when NAVI would ask if you wanted > your paper or ask about the weather and how you were doing. > > On the other hand there's been talk for a while about trying to get droids > to help out and be the droid you're looking for. Mabie droid drivers or > pilots? Does that meen we'll need to ensure the HaloNAV systems are booted > up before even going to Regal 14? > > I didn't see what specific goals Rubin has for this project unless i > missed it someplace. Rubin just seemed to think droids might be helpful, > and the internet needs a reboot. > Is he hoping to get droids to help with things people seem to be bad at? > or suppliment them for specific tasks? > IE- Oh crap it's Noah's Flood, and there's and a power line is on the > road, call a droid to fix the downed line. > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> We have an Echo and love it! It's still pretty raw, but as a voice >> controlled radio, wikipedia, current information, ... it works rather well. >> >> Like with other voice controlled critters, it doesn't hurt to look up the >> stunts it can do and the right ways to ask. >> >> -- Owen >> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Looks interesting. Something like Amazon's Echo could be the next big >>> thing for the smart home, what do you think? Does someone already own an >>> Echo? It is not yet available in Europe. >>> >>> -Jochen >>> >>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. >>> >>> -------- Original message -------- >>> From: Tom Johnson <[email protected]> >>> Date: 4/14/16 00:31 (GMT+01:00) >>> To: >>> Subject: [FRIAM] Andy Rubin and the Actuated Internet — NewCo Shift — >>> Medium >>> >>> >>> https://medium.com/newco/andy-rubin-and-the-actuated-internet-a9a543cbe4fd#.akiwroh55 >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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