The availability of data keeps growing, including data representing text, images, video, sounds (speech) and even 3D signals (like the ones generated by LIDAR used for self-assisted driving, an area that will explode in the coming years, just imagine millions and millions of cars on the move collecting terabytes of …
Read More »Megatrends for this decade – XX
f) build/customise as you use The flexibility of manufacturing and the softwarization of functionalities result in a broad range of adaptations for most products. If you want to think at something you already own, think about your laptop. You had the choice of the chip type (how many cores, the …
Read More »The evolution of human to whatever Interfaces II
Voice interaction is different in many ways from “typing” interaction. One difference is the delocalisation of the computer/machine. You don’t need to be physically connected (with your fingers typing) you just need to be heard. This has some interesting perceptual implications. In spite of the image I have shown at …
Read More »AI is becoming a marketing word and it’s a pity -VI
Chatbots Chatbots, robots that can talk and interact with people using natural language are a reality and indeed they are a concrete example of artificial intelligence application. As shown in the figure they are able to learn, get trained to be able to speak and interact at two levels: to …
Read More »Awareness, Intention, Sentiment technologies in SAS – VI
Sentiment analyses usually refers to the analyses of Natural Language (including the sort of NL you find in SMS and Whatsapp) plus biometrics to identify and quantify the affective status of a person or a group of persons. A number of products, like IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding, are already on …
Read More »Mind Uploading vs Mind Virtualisation II
From the previous post it should be clear that a full mind uploading is very far in the future, assuming that it will ever be possible (and at the present state of technology and knowledge it is not). Subset of mind uploading (like the intention of moving a hand or …
Read More »Disruptive Technologies beyond 2030 in the Data Ecosystems II
Public Mood Monitoring We can be in the pink or feeling blue, what about our fellow citizens? How are they feeling now? And considering them all together, what is the mood of the city? This kind of questions would have been an impossible to answer just few years ago but …
Read More »Tech for Autonomous Systems – Self-Evolving Capabilities III
Sentiment analyses, mood detection, empathic engagement are on the horizon of autonomous systems requirements list. Technologies are based on artificial intelligence algorithms and can focus on a single person as well as on a group of people (as large as a community or a citizenship in a town). There are …
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