Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Computer Communication With Humans And Future Interactive Challenges

Writen by Lance Winslow

Humans often communicate with each other via email and computer communication correspondence. They take thoughts and turn them into the words of a limited human language and put them onto another medium in this case a computer. Surely that is a very archaic way to communicate and in the future we will use thought transfer to collaborate. But before this transition to the faster and unlimited communication of thought transfer and combined brains or collective of minds, we will be communicating with other humans through electronic devices. We will also be communicating with computers or Artificial Intelligence in this way.

Although humans collaborate in words, the mind doesn't and one would believe that intelligent people communicate past the words themselves. Words only set the mind in motion on a concept and keep the mind somewhat focused temporarily on that line of thought or reasoning. Humans should not be controlled by the directions posed in the written words as it limits them, but should use them as a basic theme so that the conversation does not go buggy off on a million different directions, as every set of words lead to every other one you see? Like roads? Or frequency, or time, or energy, you dig? You find?

Did you know that computers now used in surveillance are programmed to make common errors to look like they are more human, which makes a lot of sense? They will mimic common mistakes, even mirror the mistakes of the target. But they often fail in their Artificial Intelligence programming because the do not allow for tangents of thought within the words and instead move the conversation into the abyss. This typically loses the interest of the subject and causes suspicion and thus the surveillance is blown or the target no longer chooses to communicate.

In the future these programs will also be used with real language in Voice IP to assist people in actual human conversations through electronic synthesized voice. There are currently projects to program Instruction Manuals to talk a human through a repair or procedure. Imagine the time saved in Virtual Reality Training or the possibilities of removing stress during a critical mission while your artificial instructor talks you through the important operation.

Computers are interesting, but the idea of computers communicating with people or interfering with the communication of people is an unfortunate eventuality in this present period as we learn better programming techniques and teach computers to program themselves and learn how to best serve us. Well that is the intellectual thoughts and concepts of it, in the future we will see the computers better themselves, but doubt expect perfection for a while, there is a lot of work to do still. The Future of Computers Serving People or People Serving Computers is still up in the air. I hope you have enjoyed this topic, please think on it.

Lance Winslow

No comments: