<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:00 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal">This technology changes everything. </p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've seen this coming for decades. The only thing that changes is that it has gone from pure vaporware to vaporware that someone hopes to soon develop into real software. I don't think it changes much at all.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal">Reasoning: from what I have seen, face recognition isn’t great, but it is good. </p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's probably better than Dragon Naturally Speaking, and that's useful. But it will continue to get better as they push more of the processing into the cloud.</div><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal">You could have a database carried on your person with a few thousand people, including some you haven’t met but only have a dozen or so pictures, such as from a high school yearbook, a newspaper article, various sources, which can reliably identify a person. </p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Facebook is a pretty good place to pick up pictures. I went to an interview today, and I already knew a little about each person that would be interviewing me. It wasn't hard to find out a little.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal">Then that person can be linked to notes, so that if you see someone you met for the first time at your high school reunion, then see her again later in another context, you can have this device remind you of where you met the person and what you discussed.<br>
</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would absolutely do this. My memory for faces and names is so poor that it would be a great help to me. I would probably test the bottom quartile for name remembering prowess, and this would make that less of a disability. In fact, I think I shall petition to be able to wear Google Glass under the Americans with Disabilities Act on the basis of my retarded facial recognition and name recall abilities. </div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u><a href="http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/12/facial-recognition-app-for-glass-challenges-googles-ban-on-the-technology/" target="_blank">http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/12/facial-recognition-app-for-glass-challenges-googles-ban-on-the-technology/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">If you are the first kid on the block to have this, especially if you can have it to where no one notices it, such as disguised as a broach or in a hat or inside a button or something, with a Bluetooth connection to a cell phone with Bluetooth to an earpiece, any yahoo can pretend to be a real people person. </p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Haven't you heard? Yahoo is downsizing. Any Googler can pretend though. You still have to listen and say the right things, but you don't have to REMEMBER so damn much. Technology is moving us constantly over the last 50 years to depend less on memory. I have dedicated my brain as much as possible to being creative, and that does involve remembering facts, but not facts about individual people so much. Just facts about types of people, trees, historical trends and the like. I have not ever tried hard to be a people person because I knew this sort of technology would eventually make that an obsolete skill. I've gotten along, but this will make me better.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know that I would want to do that. Hmmm, understatement, I do know that I do not want to do that. But others might. So I could build it and sell it to them, make a buttload of money. <span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'll buy it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal">So henceforth, if we encounter a person who seems to remember everything about a chance encounter in the past, they may not be a warm fuzzy caring genius, they might be phony as a three dollar bill, just a regular guy using stealth face recognition tech, a hidden Bluetooth device in the ear, the cell phone in their pocket for memory and processing, pretending to be something they are not. I won’t do it, for I am not really a people person; I am more of a machine person, hoping to someday become a machine machine. But there are those who might pay money for something like this.<br>
</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you think that someone using a calculator is a math whiz? This is the same thing. It won't be seen as any great thing after it's been around a year and has market penetration.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div></div></div></div>