*LOL* Geoff, that's just the sort of thing that makes me vacillate between amazement and mild paranoia. Things like that have an amazing tendency to just improve on us. There's research going on towards in 'mind control' of digital devices that potentially could 'read your thoughts'; I suppose one has to 'think out loud' at this time to 'get it's attention' and trigger the desired response. The obvious use would be for the handicapped... those who can't otherwise use hands, limbs, or any typical means to use a device, move about, or communicate...
Stephen Hawking comes to mind....one of the greatest thinkers of our era is able to share his thoughts and knowledge even now. If he was able to have further improvements on his devices, if that tech was more common to a broader user base, it borders on magic and myth...
"The lame walk, the halt speak, the blind see..." Truly practical magic. *S* It's wondrous to live in the era when that begins to become real...
...and then there's the YT vid of 2 iPhones held next to each other, listening to Siri talk to 'herself'. The conversation isn't terribly brilliant, but it's funny if only on the conceptual level. ;)
...and I think back to a Blue Man concert back in Houston some 12 years ago. The 'opening act' was 2 LED 'reader boards', one each stage left and right. They began with a simple 'conversation', one responding to the other.
It grew more involved....one became petulant, the other rather paranoid and argumentative. Obviously contrived and scripted, but it amused the audience and started levels of support and disdain, depending on where it went. A good distraction while the roadies 'tidied up'...
What would occur if there was some current AI's chatting it up? Would we still be amused? What if 'they' could respond to the audience, 'sense' their level of involvement? Where would it go....?
The Future. Live it, or live with it. Happens all the time...*G* Can't be stopped, not even paused...
What if our systems knew what you needed to hear? The TV lights up to what you read earlier, or merely heard about? The restaurant has your parties' meals waiting for you, just what y'all had in mind, Waiting for y'all to take your seats, the libation shaken, not stirred....;)
We may all be Borg eventually, but not in the STNG feared fashion....what if you could read your partners' mind? Your neighbors?
Would it be the 4 things I kid people about now, reading minds and why I gave it up?
"It's always basically the same 4 things....Money, Food, Sex, and Sleep. Not in any particular order..."
...but I'm just 'like that'... ;) Just random walking while awake, doing something else....*G*
Stephen Hawking comes to mind....one of the greatest thinkers of our era is able to share his thoughts and knowledge even now. If he was able to have further improvements on his devices, if that tech was more common to a broader user base, it borders on magic and myth...
"The lame walk, the halt speak, the blind see..." Truly practical magic. *S* It's wondrous to live in the era when that begins to become real...
...and then there's the YT vid of 2 iPhones held next to each other, listening to Siri talk to 'herself'. The conversation isn't terribly brilliant, but it's funny if only on the conceptual level. ;)
...and I think back to a Blue Man concert back in Houston some 12 years ago. The 'opening act' was 2 LED 'reader boards', one each stage left and right. They began with a simple 'conversation', one responding to the other.
It grew more involved....one became petulant, the other rather paranoid and argumentative. Obviously contrived and scripted, but it amused the audience and started levels of support and disdain, depending on where it went. A good distraction while the roadies 'tidied up'...
What would occur if there was some current AI's chatting it up? Would we still be amused? What if 'they' could respond to the audience, 'sense' their level of involvement? Where would it go....?
The Future. Live it, or live with it. Happens all the time...*G* Can't be stopped, not even paused...
What if our systems knew what you needed to hear? The TV lights up to what you read earlier, or merely heard about? The restaurant has your parties' meals waiting for you, just what y'all had in mind, Waiting for y'all to take your seats, the libation shaken, not stirred....;)
We may all be Borg eventually, but not in the STNG feared fashion....what if you could read your partners' mind? Your neighbors?
Would it be the 4 things I kid people about now, reading minds and why I gave it up?
"It's always basically the same 4 things....Money, Food, Sex, and Sleep. Not in any particular order..."
...but I'm just 'like that'... ;) Just random walking while awake, doing something else....*G*