Month: September 2022

BLADE RUNNER (1982). "The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019, in which genetically engineered replicants, which are visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as by other "mega-corporations" around the world." For genetic Replicants, think also Claytronic Telepario look-a-likes. https://lnkd.in/eQijj8B View in LinkedIn

CHERRY 2000 (1987). "In the year 2017, Sam Treadwell lives in a society where romance, economics and technology have evolved into a state where relationships of all sorts are commodities. When he breaks his android wife, Cherry 2000, he hires E. Johnson, to guide him across a dangerous apocalyptic wasteland to an abandoned manufacturing plant where he hopes to find a duplicate model Cherry 2000 to replace it with." Memorable cult film. https://lnkd.in/e5BViSJ View in LinkedIn

WILDFIRE, VIRTUAL PERSONAL ASSISTANT with personality. ''One time I screamed an unprintable injunction and she said, 'I'm sorry, I cannot perform that function,' Mr. Black said. ''Wildfire also sighs when you call it in the middle of the night, and if you tell it you are depressed, it responds: 'Great. Now I'm a therapist.' '' My memorable first PA. https://lnkd.in/emgEd8H View in LinkedIn

SIRI. "Siri worked with voice recognition/dictation firm Nuance Communications Inc. (NUAN) to give the new app responsive voice recognition. Nuance was known for its Dragon Dictation PC software and its work on voice recognition in Ford Motor Comp.'s (F) SYNC and MyFord Touch voice recognition software. The Siri app launched in Feb. 2010 in the iTunes App Store." http://www.dailytech.com/ExSiri+CEO+Poaches+Apple+to+Create+Viv+The+Global+Brain/article36387.htm View in LinkedIn

RELATIONABLE SIRI. "Talk to Siri as you would to a friend" is how Apple's Siri site introduces the virtual personal assistant. https://lnkd.in/e7gBgD6 View in LinkedIn

SIRI FIRST GENERATION. "And she had a personality: if you asked her if there was a God, she would demur with deft wisdom. "My policy is the separation of spirit and silicon," she'd say." https://lnkd.in/eEpdNGn View in LinkedIn

THIRD GENERATION SIRI. "It’s called J.A.R.V.I.S., which is short for Just A Rather Very Intelligent Scheduler. It’s named after Tony Stark’s intelligent computer assistant in the Iron Man movies (and technically, I’m told, his human butler in the old comic books)." http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/27/siri-backend-mesos/ View in LinkedIn

APPLE'S VIV. "Viv founders say you’ll access its artificial intelligence as a utility, the way you draw on electricity. Simply by speaking, you will connect to what they are calling “a global brain.” And that brain can help power a million different apps and devices." http://www.dailytech.com/ExSiri+CEO+Poaches+Apple+to+Create+Viv+The+Global+Brain/article36387.htm View in LinkedIn

NUANCED VIV. "It will be able to understand ambiguous, abstract commands with complex conditionals -- for example you can ask it to buy the cheapest available item that meets some criteria and it will hunt it down and initiate a purchase for you. It will even know the social context of what to do in in certain cases such as knowing to call a taxi if you tell it "I'm drunk." http://www.dailytech.com/ExSiri+CEO+Poaches+Apple+to+Create+Viv+The+Global+Brain/article36387.htm View in LinkedIn

VIV, UNLIMITED LEARNING. "Whereas Siri can only perform tasks that Apple engineers explicitly implement, this new program, they say, will be able to teach itself, giving it almost limitless capabilities. In time, they assert, their creation will be able to use your personal preferences and a near-infinite web of connections to answer almost any query and perform almost any function." https://lnkd.in/eEpdNGn View in LinkedIn