Talking To Computers? 395
merlock18 writes "Is it un-natural to talk to a computer? After discussing the outcome of the Jeopardy game with some colleagues, they seem to think it is mildly 'scary' to talk to a computer and have it competently talk back. Is this what everyone thinks? I was thinking to myself how much I would like to be able to even tell my computer to open programs by telling it vocally. A simple idea that I am fairly surprised is not common. Am I a minority in this one? Do people just not like the idea of talking (without cursing) to a computer, let alone have it act or reply? Would anyone else be interested in building their own mini-Watson, or is this just scary?"
Privacy (Score:5, Funny)
Instructions? (Score:5, Funny)
Unix Commands ... (Score:5, Funny)
gawk; grep; unzip; touch; strip; init,
uncompress, gasp; finger; find,
route, whereis, which, mount; fsck; nice,
more; yes; gasp; umount; head, halt,
renice, restore, touch, whereis, which,
route, mount,
more, yes, gasp, umount, expand, ping,
make clean; sleep
Re:Voice recognition has been around since years! (Score:4, Funny)
I was using voice commands in 7.5.5 (maybe 8?). The Conversation went something like this:
"Open Macintosh Aich Dee" ... ...
Finder window opens...
"Open Documents Folder"
"Open Applications Folder"
"Open Photoshop"
and at this point there was a loud voice from the other side of the cube wall "Open the fucking thing yourself!"
It's this exact reason that voice control of office computers isn't quite ready for prime time, even more than 10 years down the track...
Re:Instructions? (Score:5, Funny)
sudo open the pod bay doors, Hal.
passwords (Score:4, Funny)
Sitting at a Starbucks:
-Computer, open my bank account.
-Which one?
-Bank of America
-That's a stupid bank account to have, they are broke
-Not as long as Bernanke keeps bailing them out.
-Fine. But your dollars are crap.
-Whatever. Open it.
-It wants your password.o!
-12345
-So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
-Remind me to change the combination on my luggage. And what's the balance on the account?.
-15 bucks
-Yaho! I am gonna buy me a mouse and I'll make you shut up!
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A day later:
-Computer, open my bank account
-Same stupid account as yesterday?
-Shut up and open it, and what's the balance?
-Negative 1000
-????!!!!
Re:TNG Commands ... (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, so you didn't see that episode..
By mistake he just said "Earl Gray, hot" - and spent the rest of the show running from a rather flustered older gentleman [wikipedia.org].