G T Smith wrote:
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Billie Walsh wrote:
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And will fail miserably in a the real-world, where people do
things like put coffee-cups, magazines, and other assorted
items on their tables.
Luddite!
It's intended to have things put on it. It's a completely interactive
surface. Put your keys on the table. Someone else puts down a couple
magazines. You move things around to get your music going. Now your keys
are under a magazine. Next morning you can't find your keys. The house
computer knows they are on the coffee table under the November QST. Why?
Because it recognizes the magazine and your keys and can keep track of
whats where. Can't find yopur cheaters? The house computer knows you
left them on your desk under that manual you printed out last night.
Taken to another extreme. You put down your coffee cup and the "surface"
recognizes the need and heats the surface where the cup is sitting. Take
off you coffee cup and put down a glass of iced tea and it now cools
that spot.
Will it do toast :-D
Right that would be OK for coffee, but not so much use if you put your
beer down (unless you are drinking gluh bier ...).. :-)
On a more serious note, the kind of AI to this kind of thing is still a
a very long way away, and we are not talking a few years, more like a
few decades.....
a) To do this you need good pattern recognition. Neural net based
applications a still more than a bit limited in accuracy, reliability
and range of usage. Finger scanning yes, facial recognition not yet by a
long way.
b) The cognitive A.I. to deal with the semantics, intent, and action
interpretation of human activity does not exist outside the lab.
Nor inside it, either.
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