![]() ![]() Great idea! If cars are going to be able to drive themselves, what are we going to do in the meantime? Sleep, shop, work, listen to music, maybe view content on the vehicle’s internal screens or augmented reality windshield? For this reason, they also bought up several companies related to these technologies, such as Quest Visual and Magic Leap, whose work has recently been kept secret. Those guys at Google are real stars! They’ve got us working for them and, what’s more, they successfully and cannily protect their main source of income: advertising.Īfter feeding “the beast” with sufficient information, corrected and supervised by human intelligence, they decided to go ahead with their plan to lead the next screen: the self-driving vehicle. Google, not content with its billions of daily results, created something for certain security options and to confirm we are human: its new reCAPTCHA asks us to identify a traffic signal, a number or a road in a number of images. Then, whenever we searched for a product or simply associated an image with a word, it showed us hundreds of images and we consciously selected the best one for us-but we were also training and programming Google’s artificial intelligence to recognize objects. It then created a new product, which it offered for free: Google Images and Google Photo. However, after mapping hundreds of thousands of kilometers, it knew anyone using that public data could download it onto a vehicle and start experimenting with autonomous driving. Several years ago, when Google photographed and mapped the entire planet (which was not exactly “cheap”), with this operation and its StreetView, putting a computer in our pockets with its free Android operating system, it guaranteed it would lead mobility and, together with localization, continue to generate millions in revenues in advertising on any screen. ![]() In three years’ time, we will be able to do directly with our voice 30% of the things we currently do via a screen In three years’ time, we will be able to do 30% of the things we currently do via a screen directly with our voices. But not only has the number of transistors doubled inexorably, the complex algorithms of Artificial Intelligence that give life to voice assistance are going to change our lives again. Since then, technology has advanced in parallel to the famous Moore’s Law. Clarke introduced us to supercomputer HAL 9000. We're so used to HAL as a disembodied non-human voice, that the scenes of, for instance, removing his memory circuit boards as he slowly loses his ability to speak might have been 1000x more emotionally wrenching.Īnd the voices of Siri and Alexa are admittedly and intentionally modeled after HAL's neutral tone.īTW Rain also voiced the computer in Woody Allen's "Sleeper." Though not, presumably, Rags.In Space Odyssey (2001), Arthur C. ![]() ![]() It's interesting to consider how the movie would have played with an AI that sounded more human. Rain recorded all of the dialog with his bare feet resting on a pillow, to maintain a soothing, relaxed tone. He called in Shakespearean actor Rain to re-record all of HAL's dialog in more robotic, flat-toned voice. But during final production, Kubrick decided Balsam's reading was "too human" with too much emotion and vocal inflection. The most interesting factoid I ran across, reading about Rain's passing, is that actor Martin Balsam first recorded all of HAL's dialog and that was what the other actors were reacting to. ![]()
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