Who will be the winner in the next computing revolution?

Kevin Lancaster

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Who will be the winner in the next computing revolution?

A computer’s operating system, the layer of software between you and the hardware, has changed remarkably over the past few decades. At the beginning a user had to interact with levers and switches, then came screens and DOS, the Apple’s Macintosh and Microsoft’s Windows, and, finally, the internet.

These slowly wormed their way into our lives and changed the way we do almost everything. But the OS of the future is going to be something different entirely. The next step is artificial intelligence, and there’s a land rush going on. Just think of how profitable Microsoft’s control of the previous epoch was.
 
Google is probably in a better position since it's been gathering data long before MS did.
 
augmentation

VR

robotic assistance..

just think of any scifi movie, what ever we dream up, we strive towards.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Not even close... google is good so is ms...
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Does MS have open mics on pretty much every cell phone on earth?

MS does it track nearly as much as Google does. I don't for one moment believe your Android phone is not listening in.
 
Thor187 said:
Does MS have open mics on pretty much every cell phone on earth?

MS does it track nearly as much as Google does. I don't for one moment believe your Android phone is not listening in.
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OCP said:
A.I. will be the next big leap.
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Er, not really.

‘Artificial Intelligence’ was 2016's fake news - Putting the 'AI' into FAIL

El Reg said:
Fake news” vexed the media classes greatly in 2016, but the tech world perfected the art long ago. With “the internet” no longer a credible vehicle for Silicon Valley’s wild fantasies and intellectual bullying of other industries – the internet clearly isn’t working for people – “AI” has taken its place.

Almost everything you read about AI is fake news. The AI coverage comes from a media willing itself into the mind of a three year old child, in order to be impressed.
For example, how many human jobs did AI replace in 2016? If you gave professional pundits a multiple choice question listing these three answers: 3*million, 300,000 and none, I suspect very few would choose the correct answer, which is of course “none”.

Similarly, if you asked tech experts which recent theoretical or technical breakthrough could account for the rise in coverage of AI, even fewer would be able to answer correctly that “there hasn’t been one”.

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Today, that spirit lives on Silicon Valley, where creepy billionaire nerds like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk can fulfil their desires to “play God and be amazed by magic”, the two big things they miss from childhood. Look at Zuckerberg’s house, for example. What these people want is not what you or I want. I'd be wary of them running an after school club.

Out in the real world, people want better service, not worse service; more human and less robotic exchanges with services, not more robotic "post-human" exchanges. But nobody inside the AI cult seems to worry about this. They think we’re as amazed as they are. We’re not.

The "technology leaders" driving the AI are doing everything they can to alert us to the fact no sane person would task them with leading anything. For that, I suppose, we should be grateful.
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When did pointy-clicky WIMP interfaces become an operating system? My computer science training says the operating system is what makes it possible for programs run and talk to hardware; the user interface is what exists between the user and the program ...
 
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