<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ja. But any form of hardware has a rock bottom minimum price. Software does not.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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?) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">bill w</span></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 5:20 PM, 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"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Robot caregivers<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">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</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:#222222">All the more reason for them to come down down down in price</span>…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ja. But any form of hardware has a rock bottom minimum price. Software does not.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">AI doing intake interview:</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:#222222">AI - OK, Mrs. Undersmith - have you ever been bedridden?</span></span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></span><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:#222222">Mrs. U - Oh Yes, many times!</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">… Oh and at least twice in a haystack! That I know of…<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:#222222">Will they have a sense of humor? Or be able to understand nonsense as nonsense?</span></span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">bill w</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">…<wbr>yaaaaaakakakakakakaakaaaaakaaa<wbr>akakakakakaaaGreenMercuryGrand<wbr>Marquisaaaaaakyakyakyaaaak…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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