I thought we had this in a furby, and it didn't work very well. I don't have a smartphone. They cost WAY too much. I think it will be nice for some people, but not for the majority of people.
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I thought we had this in a furby, and it didn't work very well. I don't have a smartphone. They cost WAY too much. I think it will be nice for some people, but not for the majority of people.
This isn't so much about Furby or Smart phones. This is about
Semantic Web finally being used for something useful.
Voice recognition and mobile access are only a subset of interface technologies used for this.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 16 2010, 9:46 pm by Tuxedo-Templar.
None.
From what I can tell, it's software which makes educated guesses towards what you want. I suppose this sort of thing is inevitable, but quite frankly, I don't want to be able to tell my cell phone that I want to get a taxi at my current GPS location in 1 hour. I wouldn't mind asking my cell phone "what's the nearest taxi company, and their phone number so I can call them". We're using the internet and technology to stop interacting with people. You can order pizza online with a credit card, and you don't even have to talk to anyone.
However, as I said before, it's obviously going to be of use for some people. I just don't think I'm one of them.
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Why is that a problem? Saving time through automation lets you do
more talking with the people you
do want to be talking to instead, wouldn't it?
I'm just trying to get you to think, here.
Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Feb 17 2010, 1:34 am by Tuxedo-Templar.
None.
A real semantic web needs to be more than an app. If I could pull out my phone and ask "What's the best route to the doctor's office with the least traffic" and then the GPS program fires up, then we've got real semantic computing. All this does is look for common phrases like "chicago weather" and stick it in
google. Lame.
tits
Uh, where does it say that's all it does?
edit: As I'm aware, they're designing it to take as many available web service APIs as they can, plug in the needed variables, and pretty much do exactly the kind of stuff you just mentioned.
This could become especially powerful when they themselves have an API for developers to plug themselves into.
Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Feb 17 2010, 2:45 am by Tuxedo-Templar.
None.
I'm saying this isn't really the semantic web. It's a lame conglomeration of a bunch of obvious first steps. It's nowhere near semantic.
tits
Well I agree partly in the sense that this is at least stuff that should have been happening almost half a decade ago (or sooner), and in the sense that it's still quite limited.
None.
I am scared to death of skynet. That and our growing tenancy towards becoming recluses inside our houses with no real contact with the outside world.
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