[ExI] ok geezer, was: RE: Meta question again

Sat Aug 27 18:27:55 UTC 2016

I think Google might have donated money to get HP Chromebooks for my son's
fifth grade classroom; they have 40 Chromebooks in there and only 28
students.  At 200 a pop I would donate a few to Clare Bridge, if some Google
person would propose this OK Geezer notion and we can make them worth
having  spike

It's such a good idea that it will happen.  Actually the Acer Chromebook I
have is 15.6" and I don't miss my 17" toshiba at all, and as I said
earlier, perfectly satisfied with it.

Orson Scott Card's series on Ender features a 'woman' who 'woke up' on the
software.  An AI, then.  From that book and others I've read convince me
that people will treat an AI as a person, and a cognitively challenged
person even more so.

And if Eliza is still out there, why not get ahold of that and update it?

bill w

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:39 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> >>...If we look at it that way, a modified version of OK Google can almost
> already do that, or if OK Google could market a modifiable version of
> whatever their script does, I would buy the hell outta that.
>
> >>...Have we any Google people who can propose it to their company?
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> spike
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> >...The modified version of OK Google would go out to a specialized
> database
> instead of the web.  Oh this seems like a snap for those talented coders at
> Google...spike
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> You thought I was done with ya?  Well almost.  Kidding bygones, I am not
> done with yas until I have something approximating an OK Geezer in my
> hands.
>
> I had an idea regarding hardware, those HP Chromebooks.  They aren't very
> powerful processors, not a lot of memory, not really fast, but they are
> rugged and cheap, a perfectly adequate platform for this app.
>
> A couple hundred bucks gets us a 14" screen, with enough resolution to
> showcase Dr. Stein's understated beauty.  It occurred to me that we
> wouldn't
> even need to synchronize the avatar to the speech.  We wouldn't really need
> an avatar at all; that is overkill for this purpose.  We could get looping
> video of Jill listening, run that video while the patent is talking, then
> take looping video of Jill speaking without the sound, and run that while
> we
> deliver the database-generated witty crackling repartee.  That video is
> free; we screen capture it from the approximately 7 minutes of total
> coverage the mainstream news sources gave Dr. Stein.
>
> The video is not synchronized with the audio, so it wouldn't work for the
> deaf patients.  Those hapless few couldn't hear the entertaining
> computer-generated audio but would read her lips and wonder why this
> attractive woman responds to any comment regardless of the topic with the
> same wacky lecture on why every known or proposed energy source is a bad
> thing.  So that needs work.  But for the rest of the patients, that looping
> video notion should meet spec.
>
> Or think on this: the video could be customized: instead of Dr. Stein, we
> could use looping video of our own perhaps late sweethearts and brides
> doing
> the talking and listening, or our grandchildren if we are lucky enough to
> have them, or perhaps even a cherished long-passed pet for those who talked
> to their adoring dog.  We could even tune them to specialized stuff, such
> as
> for elderly gay patients: make a lilty-voiced text to speech with looping
> video of Rock Hudson and Jim Neighbors.  Or more entertainment-oriented
> video, such as commentary by the umpire of college students doing dilduels,
> or mixed-gender dildo ice breaking contests, that sorta thing.  Hey that's
> video even I would buy.
>
> But I digress.
>
> Back to the HP Chromebook idea: those things are a couple hundred bucks
> each, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled.  The low-end memory care facilities cost
> more than that per day of residence, that's a lower end facility.  Read
> that
> sentence again and ponder it please.  It isn't a typo or an exaggeration.
>
> HP Chromebooks, one for each patient, or hell why not two?  Then the
> patient
> having a discussion with Jill and Joe might imagine he is telling his
> attractive young grandchildren how it was in the old days, or might have
> fun
> listening as Jill and Joe engage each other, trying to outwit or seduce,
> that sort of thing.
>
> I think Google might have donated money to get HP Chromebooks for my son's
> fifth grade classroom; they have 40 Chromebooks in there and only 28
> students.  At 200 a pop I would donate a few to Clare Bridge, if some
> Google
> person would propose this OK Geezer notion and we can make them worth
> having.
>
> spike
>
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