From: Party of Citizens (citizens@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Mon Sep 03 2001 - 14:03:32 MDT
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Party of Citizens wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, J. R. Molloy wrote:
> >
> > > Autonomous thinking
> > > http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Aug_01/story_1264.html
> > > The "Three-Dimensional Artificial Neural Network" processor is capable of
> > > recognising objects in real time and in highly cluttered background scenes. It
> > > can process an image and is capable of a certain degree of judgment about the
> > > objects, in the same way as a person looks at a variety of objects and makes
> > > judgments about their nature.
> >
> > As the laziest man in the whole wide world I would rather have the
> > machines do my thinking for me. But I still haven't seen the proof that
> > this machine can recognize objects (in general) in real time. Has anyone
> > else? If it can do that, it is a breakthrough in science so great that it
> > might even warrant a Nobel Prize.
>
> Actually, the machines are in use to day to scan many thousands
> of faces in real time from glimpses by cameras and identify with
> high accuracy who the person is. So we are at least well on the
> way in limited domains. But if a machine does your thinking for
> you exactly what do you plan to do with your time?
"I....don' wanna work...
I jus wanna bang on de drum all day...."
POC
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