SNS Subscriber Edition Volume 18, Issue 20 Week of May 25, 2015 In This Issue
Feature: Pattern Recognition: AI for the Next IA
The Human Side
Needs vs. Wants
Humans As Relationships
The Machine
The Human / Machine Relationship
Machine Love
Quotes of the Week
Takeout Window
Naikon Espionage Group vs. ASEAN
LG’s New OLED TVs
Viv: The Great Internet Assistant?
Cloud-Based IoT Security
3D Printing with Graphene: We’re Getting Closer —-
Upgrades and Numbers
Netflix Neutered?
Sherry Chen: “Not Charged” Is Different from “Not Guilty”
HP: Selling Out or Pushed Out?
Tech Bubble: Yes
Housing: It’s Different This Time
China Crash? Yes (Kind Of)
RICK, Not BRIC
Phabs: CarryAlongs Split by Age
The UK in the EU: Yes
The US and Chinese Equity Markets
Charter Bid for Time Warner: An FCC Pass
Ethermail
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It turns out that the same skills I’ve been using and espousing since 1995 – based on pattern recognition – are those that have provided the breakthrough in AI, and, soon, in the next Internet Assistant.
No matter what one calls the latest wave of assistants – Internet Assistants (our term), Intelligent Assistants, Conversational Assistants (Viv Labs’ term), Personal Assistants – or what name one gives them (Siri, Ava, Alex, Cortana, Google Now), it’s clear that we want to think of them as fellow human beings, trapped in a box and awaiting our every command.
