I've looked into it for some past hackathon projects and a side project. Watson can take care of some of the heavy lifting of NLP, categorization, or parsing large volumes of text, et, in different ways, but it's not some jeopardy-winning AI you can just plug into something you already have (at least not yet). It can abstract away some tricky challenges if your needs fit what it can do.
The return of text adventures! How is typing out a request any better than tapping a button? Isn't the magic of AI in predicting a button press, rather than making us write out or speak the request?
Can I add the arms rather than replace? I often find myself wish I had an extra pair of hands. Or better hands, with two thumbs for example? Or tentacles instead of fingers? This could get very weird...
EDIT: to add some commentary, as one of the older Millennials, I've seen the media go from talking about "Millennials joining the work force" about a decade ago now, to "These wacky high school/college Millennials" now. As technology and society advance at an increasingly rate, it make less and less sense to group together such a wide age range.
A generation used to span roughly 20 years, right? These days it should probably be a decade or less. In which case, it probably shouldn't be used as a catch-all at all anymore. Maybe just stick with "People born in n decade".
Isn't this more a reflection of the limits of the qwerty layout? Both 'styles' have similar asymptotic limits because the layout simply doesn't enable faster speeds very well.
My two year old has no interest in Elmo. He's more interested (right now) in Pixar characters, and to a lesser extent Masha and the Bear. One could argue Masha is an equivalent to Elmo, though probably worse overall being a much less educational show. But the obsession with Pixar is fascinating to me. Not just Toy Story and Cars, but Wall-E and Up. Very proud of that, and impressed by Pixar frankly.
Outlook. Seriously. It supports multiple accounts I believe (I only use my work exchange account so not positive), and it has scheduling of messages. The scheduling hasn't synced very well to the desktop version in my experience, but a lot of people have called it the best gmail client on iOS.
In the US a lot of terminals that technically could support Apple Pay because they use NFC (and have the logo you mention) have explicitly disabled Apple Pay support. So the scanner 'sees' the watch and kinda starts the transaction, then fails later because it's "not supported yet". Because they have a vested interest in a competing product.
Wow, I've had the complete opposite experience. In most/all stores I deal with regularly, you can swipe your card at any time while they're scanning your stuff. You can do the same thing with the watch. I've been able to get away with using it in countries where it wasn't officially supported yet, as well, since it's just NFC and no one has explicitly blocked Apple Pay there (sadly not the same in the US).
Results may vary.
This is exactly the pattern I've fallen into with the Apple Watch. It charges so fast, and my usage hasn't been that extreme. I charge it during showers and my son's bedtime, and I'm good to go.
Agreed. There's just something about the pen and paper right there, ready to go, always. Even on a phone, with the app open, you'll probably have to unlock the screen first, and tap or something to bring up the keyboard and start typing.
This seems like the only logical reason any sane person at Amazon thought this phone would be a good idea. It's such an obvious dud in this stage. These people aren't stupid, yet there is no way this product would ever be successful. It would be fascinating to learn just what they are thinking.
I was surprised by that too, but then later in the video it shows the other arm that was being controlled by a human hand. It appears to mirror that arms movement, which is why it looked so human.
An iPad makes even more sense as a combo keyboard/trackpad hybrid, with dynamic multitouch interactions that could be app specific. This is what I dream about.
Agree completely, just wanted to point out that 99.5% accuracy would mean 5 typos within the length of your comment. For any significant amount of typing it would need to be way more accurate. But then again, all this thing really is is a super-charged autocorrect, so they could probably fix those errors.
Exactly why phones NEED to require the passcode/touch ID/whatever when turning the device off. Could add the same to Sim removals: "SIM HAS BEEN REMOVED, ENTER PASSCODE TO DISABLE ALARM"
I've said it before, and most people just shrug it off, but our best chances for the long term survival of our species and planet are to get humans off the planet, whether Mars or asteroids or giant space cruise liners, and turn the earth into a wildlife preserve. Give the planet a much needed human-extinction event by leaving on our own.