Computers will develop 5 human senses

[jes]

Computers will develop 5 human senses

Processing sights and sounds requires eyes, ears and, most important, a brain—right? But what if your hardware shared your senses asks IBM.

 

[Space_Chief]

Which is what hardware (and software) already does, or rather mimics. Cameras, microphones, temperature sensors, chemical sensors such as the ones to detect explosives, etc. are currently used to do these things already.

 

[NeonNinja]

“Within the next five years, your mobile device will let you touch what you’re shopping for online. It will distinguish fabrics, textures, and weaves so that you can feel a sweater, jacket, or upholstery – right through the screen,” IBM said.

But this?

 

[Malfeasant]

“Within the next five years, your mobile device will let you touch what you’re shopping for online. It will distinguish fabrics, textures, and weaves so that you can feel a sweater, jacket, or upholstery – right through the screen,” IBM said.

But this?

Mandatory comment: Porn will get interesting.

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[Space_Chief]

“Within the next five years, your mobile device will let you touch what you’re shopping for online. It will distinguish fabrics, textures, and weaves so that you can feel a sweater, jacket, or upholstery – right through the screen,” IBM said.

But this?

IT will distinguish ... so that YOU can feel ....

IT and YOU. Confused here.

A new tactile interface, that may mimic the touch of a suede jacket or leather sofa.

 

[Space_Chief]

Mandatory comment: Porn will get interesting.

Admit it you were all thinking it!

No. I was trying to figure out what this article was actually saying.

 

[Dwergie]

Mandatory comment: Porn will get interesting.

Admit it you were all thinking it!

+1

 

[LazyLion]

Computers will never be able to develop senses, at best they will only be able to emulate them.
That is all computers do when it comes to AI... they emulate.

See The Chinese Room Experiment for why computers will never be able to reach that stage of evolution.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

 

[louisek]

I hope computers become more female. Then they will enjoy a wider range of senses than if designed by a man, for men.

 

[eitai2001]

I hope computers become more female. Then they will enjoy a wider range of senses than if designed by a man, for men.

Ya, but then they will also become impossible to work with, get upset if you use another computer, and stop working all together once a month

 

[Space_Chief]

Computers will never be able to develop senses, at best they will only be able to emulate them.
That is all computers do when it comes to AI... they emulate.

See The Chinese Room Experiment for why computers will never be able to reach that stage of evolution.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

I think the idea is that one can't tell if another entity is thinking or calculating. Turing's test fails. One can have a perfect conversation with a machine without that machine understanding what you're saying, merely responding in a sophisticated way to your questions through calculations. Computers are only capable of calculating but they have no inherent meaning. Any meaning in computing devices is imposed from outside, by the programmer or user. A computer is just crunching numbers very fast but it has no idea what they mean. It's a philosophical zombie, unlike the human mind (or even some animal minds).

Developing senses the way a computer "sees" different wavelengths of light with a camera is not however that. Although this article is wishy-washy and suggesting that. It's just more sophisticated computing.