Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is living at least a few years out ahead of anyone reading this post — the founding executive told an audience in Rome (via Verge) today that he hopes to demonstrate his home’s artificial intelligence system, which controls things like air conditioning, lighting and more based on things like face and voice recognition.
The TechCrunch article is light on detail, but this project may be more interesting than it sounds at first blush. Zuckerberg isn’t the first tech billionaire to sink a bunch of money into a fancy home automation project. Bill Gates famously did the same a couple of decades ago. High end homes all over the world have fancy and expensive home control systems, that provide their rich owners with frustration and hassle and absolutely confound houseguests. But these days, for a few hundred dollars, anyone can buy an Amazon Echo, any one of half a dozen automation hubs, and various switches, thermostats, and lightbulbs, and create a pretty nifty and convenient voice controlled home automation and entertainment system. Someone with the vision and the development budget that Mark Zuckerberg has at his disposal should be able, with readily available, inexpensive hardware, create something pretty amazing.
Yeah, uh?
Facebook, IA, something wrong in there :
http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/facebook-fires-human-editor…
No that was human error. Humans are supposed to validate that the stories that go in there are real, and not fake. Personally, I’d fire/reassign to the basement anyone who let that one through.
What’s the point of having IA generating news if it have to be human cross checked ? I think some positions have not to be IA driven, at all.
Well, with the amount of news generated second in second out around our connected globe it does seems sensible to have a minimum automated selection and then a human sieve to pick what may be newsworthy and fact backed.
But I would tend to trust IA being less partial and more trustworthy than humans flaws and failures. So if even IA fails…
And what’s the point of being flood by so many pointless and/or useless information ? Distract people from core problems ?
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First of all, spoken like a true American-is-the-only-part-of-the-world-that-counts because the Echo isn’t sold internationally and things like Apple TV voice controls don’t work in Dutch (or 95% of all other languages) either.
Second, none of these systems interact with each other so you need “glue” like a smartphone with many apps and even more glue like If-this-then-that and after weeks of playing, reconfiguring, rebuying several components…your coffeemaker automatically made you a coffee when you got home but you didn’t want a coffee that day and the curtains closed automatically when it was time to close them but you were just enjoying the view of your child playing in the garden.
Home automation is in its absolute infancy. Lots of hardware and software is there, but it is for tinkerers, not average consumers