On 19/07/2011 18:29, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

where is the hp tech when you need him/her?

India.


Oh, one day an "it" in the cloud. Can you imagine a computer programmed
to *completely* understand speech, speaking to ya with a *completely
human* but synthesised voice? Oh, and some actual working neural network
assisted IQ.

May not be perfect in this decade, but certainly the next and definately
before the end of time (where it would correctly phone up and insult
someone's Mother-in-Law but unwittingly cause global nuclear meltdown).

There will be lots of phone tech support humans thrown planetwide out of
work in the neverending chase to provide service at highest profit
margin. There will also be all the phone-sex gals also thrown out of
work, the human like mucky responses by the machines would be so 'good'.


What will all these people do?

"I've got a good brush here, er, ye don't want to stick your feet in
that there robot! How would you like ya shoes shined sir?"

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Adrian C