Why Hal Will Never Exist 325
aengblom writes "Researchers at the University of Maryland's
Human-Computer Interaction Lab are suggesting what many of us have already
guessed. The future of human-computer interaction won't be through speech--it
will remain visual (they explain why). The
Washington Post is running a story
about the researchers and how they think we will get computers to do what we want. The article is a fascinating read and is joined by a great
video clip (real
or quicktime)
of the researchers and their methods. The Post is holding an online
discussion with the researchers tomorrow. Also check-out Photomesa
the lab's software program that helps track images on a computer. (Throw a directory
with a 1,000 high-res files at this thing and you can justify that pricey new
computer you bought)."
Wrong Take (Score:5, Funny)
What ?? I thought the current research line in HCI was getting computers to get humans to do what they [computers] want. Computers doing what humans mistell them to do is soooo 20th Century...
Who wants HAL anyway? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, duh (Score:2, Funny)
This explains drivers in So Cal. Those cellphones are using up all their available neurons. Not that they had that many free to begin with.
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Re:All great Sci-Fi ideas come to pass eventually (Score:5, Funny)
If brightly coloured spandex clothes ever become commonplace I'm quitting this planet...
Re:Who wants HAL anyway? (Score:2, Funny)
I want my insane bot!
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Re:Who wants HAL anyway? (Score:4, Funny)
It's particularly bad for games. "Click both buttons on the unopened square next to the '3'"
What about typing and thinking? (Score:5, Funny)
With the advent of the Internet and global communications, I think it's become painfully evident that a majority of the people also have trouble typing and thinking at the same time. =)
Nonsense! (Score:5, Funny)
Nevermind...
Actually in the future the computer will scan your face and biological status and read your mind based on millions of tiny clues. All you'll have to do is sit there with a vague disinterested loook on your face and the computer will magically do stuff based on all those clues. Later on you won't even have to be at the computer. To write that 10,000 lines of code you need by next thursday, you'd just go out and take a walk (Is anyone buying this? No? Ok, I'll stop now...)
Re:Nonsense! (Score:2, Funny)
So remember when you next run into a talking robot that it just can't happen
Re:Finally... (Score:3, Funny)
;-)
Re:All great Sci-Fi ideas come to pass eventually (Score:3, Funny)
Man, you totally missed out on the 80's didn't you?
Re:Single Modality? (Score:2, Funny)
> I'd rather speak to it than move my eyes or my hands.
nudge nudge, wink wink... me too 8-)
Si
Re:Single Modality? (Score:2, Funny)
I can't tell you how much I wish I could get WIndows to ctrl-alt-del whatever app I was running when I shout "son of a bitch!"