AICollector
June 15th, 2009, 11:21 PM
About 20 years ago, there was a supercomputer. I cannot remember much of it, save for the fact that it had a whopping 235mb hardrive.
Now look where we are today, with 1 terabyte HD's becoming more commonplace. Miniature computers designed for mobile use that have the power of a fully fledged desktop not more then five years ago.
Now, lets look into the future here. Tasks that take up a large amount of cycles now will be more or less pittance in a few years.
But now, the warning;
AI technology (recognition of audio, visual etc) is strangely lacking in the world of Linux. AI Tech is, sadly, within the realm of propitiatory software.
So first, lets look at face and gesture recognition.
http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/add-face-recognition-login-with-bananascreen-277812.php
That leads to a free face recognition login system for Windows. I can understand why that hasnt been implemented in Linux systems, simply because face recognition is far too resource hungry for now.
Then we have other systems, gesture computing, I would hope most of you are aware of Microsoft's Project NATAL? I would personally love to have an natural langauge- agent based computing model to replace the desktop.
This brings me back to my other point; speech recognition. There are really only two good speech recog systems, Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Window's built in version. The former is much much better then the latter.
I can only feel that speech recog to be of infinite use on any computing system. How many times, as a writer, have I found it so much easier to verbilize a story, rather then sit down and write it? There is CMU Sphix, of course, but I do not beleive it is ready, nor do I think it is being developed anymore.
My point is; technology, as we all know, is advancing, and AI tech (semantic systems, recogntion, etc) is becoming increasingly important. I would hope Linux entire would take advantage of such technologies, for I think it'd be such a waste if it didnt.
I recognize KDE's NEOPNUK intergration, and GNOME's yet-to-be-developed semantic spaces. I also recognize the increasing importance of automation of both operating the computer and of providing information to the user. I simply beleive that technology, like the one mentioned above, is quite possible and there is little reason for it not to be intergrated into Linux in the future.
Now look where we are today, with 1 terabyte HD's becoming more commonplace. Miniature computers designed for mobile use that have the power of a fully fledged desktop not more then five years ago.
Now, lets look into the future here. Tasks that take up a large amount of cycles now will be more or less pittance in a few years.
But now, the warning;
AI technology (recognition of audio, visual etc) is strangely lacking in the world of Linux. AI Tech is, sadly, within the realm of propitiatory software.
So first, lets look at face and gesture recognition.
http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/add-face-recognition-login-with-bananascreen-277812.php
That leads to a free face recognition login system for Windows. I can understand why that hasnt been implemented in Linux systems, simply because face recognition is far too resource hungry for now.
Then we have other systems, gesture computing, I would hope most of you are aware of Microsoft's Project NATAL? I would personally love to have an natural langauge- agent based computing model to replace the desktop.
This brings me back to my other point; speech recognition. There are really only two good speech recog systems, Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Window's built in version. The former is much much better then the latter.
I can only feel that speech recog to be of infinite use on any computing system. How many times, as a writer, have I found it so much easier to verbilize a story, rather then sit down and write it? There is CMU Sphix, of course, but I do not beleive it is ready, nor do I think it is being developed anymore.
My point is; technology, as we all know, is advancing, and AI tech (semantic systems, recogntion, etc) is becoming increasingly important. I would hope Linux entire would take advantage of such technologies, for I think it'd be such a waste if it didnt.
I recognize KDE's NEOPNUK intergration, and GNOME's yet-to-be-developed semantic spaces. I also recognize the increasing importance of automation of both operating the computer and of providing information to the user. I simply beleive that technology, like the one mentioned above, is quite possible and there is little reason for it not to be intergrated into Linux in the future.