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Babling Computers

There's a fairly interesting yet controversial article on BBC news about teaching computers to speak. This is not a new idea, I've mentioned it more than once in the forums and posted many articles describing attemps to do this. It makes so much more sense than spending ages writting a program to get the computer to speak!

Anway, the article seems more like a big marketting strategy rather than actual fact. So take it with a pinch of salt. The techological details are sparse in the article.

One thing discussed I do agree with, and something that I've been pondering for quite a while, is the user interface revolution. Working with computers is an extremely tedious process, simply because they don't learn! You could call it common sense, but I think that terminology is over-rated. It's more short term experience we're interested in: given a few examples of what the user did, the interface should learn the default behaviour. The technology is already available to do a great deal of this, but not put into practice for some reason. Hopefully, when computers can understand users, that may trigger the thought in many people's mind, and we'll start applying A.I. to interfaces. Until then, we'll have to content ourselves with the simple "Don't ask me again." checkbox!

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Thursday 27 September, 18:17
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