[ExI] Robot caregivers

[William Flynn Wallace]

Ja.  But any form of hardware has a rock bottom minimum price.  Software
does not.



Time to sign off for the day, but what does this mean?  (A related
question:  will there be some point in the future where all you have to do
to write software is select the parts you want from a giant database, write
some small number of lines for your specific situation, and pay for the
database parts?  Or maybe if you improve the part the database pays you?And
maybe eventually everything becomes freeware?)


bill w

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 5:20 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> All of these solutions are high-tech expensive, lots of design cost,
> manufacturing cost, engineering support, repair and maintenance, etc.  I am
> cheering for Japan Inc, I hope they are wildly successful at this in every
> way.  spike
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> >…All the more reason for them to come down down down in price…
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> Ja.  But any form of hardware has a rock bottom minimum price.  Software
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> >…AI doing intake interview:
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> >…AI - OK, Mrs. Undersmith - have you ever been bedridden?
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> >…Mrs. U - Oh Yes, many times!
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> … Oh and at least twice in a haystack!  That I know of…
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> >…Will they have a sense of humor?  Or be able to understand nonsense as
> nonsense?  bill w
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> Hope so.  Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to communicate with them at all.
> They would be off trying to make sense of the haystack notion.
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> BillW, this is an important point.  If we make an effective Jill and Joe,
> the responses have a huge margin for error.  It can be allowed as much
> leeway as we allow impaired humans.  Or even those of us only mildly
> impaired.  Picture in your mind’s ear your yakky annoying neighbor who
> loves to drone on and on about nothing.  You might smile politely and cue
> off of anything anywhere in her commentary you might find interesting.
> When she speaks, all we hear is
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> …yaaaaaakakakakakakaakaaaaakaaaakakakakakaaaGreenMercuryGrand
> Marquisaaaaaakyakyakyaaaak…
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> and we are free to respond with something like: I used to have a Mercury
> Grand Marquis.  Heck of a car, lots of power, smooth…
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> She might have been chattering on about a local city council candidate who
> came by to discuss a burglary suspect or school board participation, but
> her take on it was too inane to attempt actual dialog.  With that comment,
> you can see why I know all the common flavors of pepper spray.
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> The point is, a soft companion, or Jill and Joe, could have very broad
> leeway on how to respond to any comment.  That will make it a lot easier to
> do, for if the software has no idea what the carbon-based interlocutor
> said, Jill can just choose any random comment as a conversation starter,
> such as her take on the upcoming international dildo ice breaking Olympics.
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