Soon, machine-to-machine conversations will outnumber human-to-human and human-to-machine conversations many times over.
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But was it really more amazing to be able to get a document chugging out of a machine than to hear a human voice over a phone?
"We want to allow humans to be more trusting of robots by opening up a communication channel where the machine can explain to the human why they did what they did, " said Dr Vasconcelos.
Selerity is at the forefront of information, where data must be quickly sought, extracted, put in context, and distributed to both machine and human audiences.
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The videos focus on three key industries with significant potential for intelligent systems - healthcare, retail and manufacturing - all with unique needs and requirements for devices, from kiosks to human machine interface panels (HMI), digital signs and POS terminals.
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It was during recovery from a shoulder injury that Whelan -- a former Partner at management consultants, Accenture -- first had the idea to create a machine than could harness human power.
This used the life of Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul of the homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.
We never ask a human to work a for us, once that machine is developed, that does the job better than any human every could.
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Perhaps more importantly, when he tried to use the machine himself, Moggridge was exasperated with the difficulty and decided to take the human factor into account for software design.
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"Part of having your journalists on these platforms is giving them the freedom to be a normal human being, not a robot, a PR machine or a slave to the wire, " he blogged.
And thanks to work out of Georgia Tech, tactile sensitivity for robotics, more secure e-signatures and general human-machine interaction is about to get a great 'ol boost.
While it's still a concept, the company's so-called BeMoved coffee machine promises to finally bring the disparate worlds of hot beverages and motion control together at last, and do nothing short of raise "human interaction with a coffee machine to a higher level" in the process.
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He explained that he pursued his work more to learn how the human brain works than to learn about how to build a more sophisticated machine.
To this date we are unable to build a machine that can do the simplest human task: Converse.
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It would be interesting to know whether this is human or machine curated.
Delvoye is no stranger to controversy: he is perhaps best known for his work Cloaca, an installation composed of a large machine reproducing the effects of the human digestive system to create, in essence, industrial faecal matter .
One major hurdle is that the language of machine-plus-human interaction has not yet begun to be developed.
Numbers that are on neither list will be verified by going through a CAPTCHA routine that to verify that a human, not a machine, is making the call.
And as they improve, the machine-based tutoring technologies will become good enough for those who could or would have paid full price or changed up their schedule to connect with a human tutor, such that machine-based tutoring may well be the norm for many of us as a prime mode of learning in the future.
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Just as any machine needed rest to prepare for the next day, so did the human.
There must be a highly specialized machine to turn the jumble of zeros and ones into information that a human can absorb, which is not at all obvious in a timescale measured in hundreds of years.
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As the passage implies, even something as seemingly simple as an airplane flying in the sky is actually just one part of a large sociotechnical system composed of various human and machine elements, from the pilot and airplane to a series of airports, communication and navigation systems, bureaucracies, regulations, rules and norms of flight, and more.
Smith says that, ultimately, it's going to be hard for people to share the uniquely human custom of story telling with a machine.
The Segway Human Transporter, a self-balancing, electric-powered human transportation machine, was hailed as something that was going to dramatically change the way we got from point A to point B.
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"I can't imagine that a machine is going to tell a story and present it in a way that other human beings are going to accept it, " he said.
The Southampton researchers have now developed 'machine learning' traffic control computers that can learn how to control the lights like a human would and even learn their own improved strategies through experience.
In conceiving the exhibition, the curators were especially inspired by Mr. Hamilton's work and his belief that human and machine share a "dream-like life, " having come to act as a single entity.
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The side effects that ultimately emerged with a handful of their most promising candidates are more attributable to the serendipity of human biology than any systematic shortcomings in the Vertex science machine.
He vows to have a machine by 2012 that will decode in two hours all 20, 000 human genes that code for proteins. (This is roughly 3% of all DNA and will still be far behind Illumina, which can do all the DNA twice.) Eventually, he hopes to create a machine the size of an iPad.
The Olympic Games celebrate majesty of the human body as a perfectly tuned machine, and the spirit that pushes that machine to its limits.
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