Marrying your best friend, when it is an AI bot, introduces more than one strange thing to your life. So does chatting with the dearly departed. VR/AR/MR stories, ionic drive & more. Continue reading
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Michael and Michael use their prognostic skills to divine what the next Niantic game might be in 2018 based on the non-specific reports in the media about the Wizards Unite game to be unveiled in a few months. Could there be a spell collecting game that drives players to bookstores and libraries to discover & unlock spells? Maybe use newspaper vending machines as something to check into in order to open powerups. How about zoos to collect your own fantastic beasts into your virtual menagerie? Speaking of pictures, the data in the pictures can provide an huge amount of … Continue reading
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Michael & Michael talk about the promise of bots who listen into meetings, take notes & action items on your behalf, entering them into your tool of choice for follow up. Talk about the power of the pen — and quite a step up from “Alexa, add eggs to my grocery list”. Michael R brings up the fact that we’re still in a generation 1.1 world when it comes to AR — really in the beginning stages. Starting point will be in enterprise and entertainment before AR applications begin to really show up outside of these areas. Intriguing question: are … Continue reading
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Just say no to enabling autonomous bots & drones with the ability to apply lethal force. Following on last week’s episode 177, Michael & Michael start off with a continuation of the discussion on the Pandora’s Box of armed robots. Moving on to a happier topic, while still staying on the machine learning concept, the pair talks about how Siri and other voice interactive systems have been improved with deep learning. Not just recorded scripts, but actual intelligence, and more natural interaction is apparent when you listen to how far things have come since the earliest days of Siri … Continue reading
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