George Rebane
You’re walking down a busy city street and stop at a window that is displaying what the sign says is a Han dynasty bronze lamp. Intrigued about the beautiful artifact of a bygone age you want to know more about the Han dynasty. Without moving your lips or making a sound, you form the words in your mind, ‘Wikipedia, Han dynasty’. In a few seconds over your online iPod’s earbud comes “The Han Dynasty; 206 BC–220 AD followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the prominent family known as the Liu clan. The reign of the Han Dynasty, lasting over 400 years, is commonly considered … “ Your silent access to the internet or your cell phone or any other voice activated device/system is made possible by a new throat pick-off that translates into silent speech the nerve signals going to your larynx. These can then be converted by voice understanding software into commands for internet access, or directly transmitted over your cell phone. You are now a walking talking version of a intellectually-augmented human, and this is only the beginning. See a demonstration here.
Internet AI-based avatars may soon re/act like real people “Passing the Turing test--the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI), whereby a human conversing with a computer can't tell it's not human--may now be possible in a limited way with the world's fastest supercomputer (IBM's Blue Gene), according to AI experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. RPI is aiming to pass AI's final exam this fall …” (more)
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