remember when no one said a computer could ever beat the top chess players. it came in almost no time after that.
Technology hates final words.
If there was incentive to do it an AI pool player could exist in less than five years. Ever growing lack of incentive might keep robot pool players at bay or some of the whiz kids at MIT or a similar place may do it for a class project. It may have already been done.
We will see more advances in technology in the next five to ten years than we have seen in the last twenty. I think of my brother sometimes, a very high level genius who died in the early seventies. He never saw the completion of the interstate system, a microwave, a home computer, ... Somebody else worked on a high level military computer. If it was down thirty minutes the Pentagon called to find out why. It had logic gates that were about three by five inches that you could flip open to fix! The ten meg hard drives were the size of a big file cabinet and the individual disks were the size of 78 LP's! Roughly twelve inches. Won't be long before almost nobody knows what a hard drive is. I need to read some DVD's right now, me or nobody in my family has equipment that can read one! Thirty years ago I could have taught how to work on computers and networks, at any level. Now I am happy if I can just turn this damned thing on!
About Jennie, anybody that wants in a grammar or typing battle with somebody that used to transcribe reams of documents for the United Nations, often from recordings of broken English to proper spelling and grammar, and on a rush basis, ain't going to get my backing! She seems to be semi retired now but I suspect she can still type over three hundred words a minute, no flaws!
From what I read from AI, I can still spell and have better grammar than most programs. Some of the stuff I wrote for bids going to NASA would probably look like AI to a lot of people today. A lot of the reason I am so verbose, the request for bids specified nobody would get any follow-up contacts, no questions, no requests for clarifications, you got it right the first time, or it got round filed. To make things tougher, the requests for bids had errors and you couldn't ask for clarification concerning those errors either!
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