On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I'm also looking forward to Prof Rajkumar's Autonomous Cadillac presentation. Yes AI, ML and the things we take for granted will be historic. Consider what it took to just do voice recognition before 2007 (first year of the Phone). Now we're doing AI/ML in the cloud. We're on the verge of a historic revolution. Our vintage 'junk' got us there.
it's funny how this mention of the cloud every year has become "compatible" with the population You could say it makes us yearn for those days of getting the urge to dial-up remotely into Time-sharing systems, oh wait..... but then everything is so much faster, and faster now....why don't we just save it all ONE computer ....One Computer -~-~-~-~-> The Cloud........ oh golly gee, but then whenever "The Cloud" has a <software> glitch, suddenly, there is no connection, NO CARRIER, everyone would succumb to a enormous Brain FART the simultaneous eruption in the population of a Brain Fart has never been computed and that would go down in the Guinness Book of World Records