How do e-readers keep up with tablet technology? The promise of longer battery life may not be enough. Thankfully, the guys at e-ink, have come up with the next gen of e-paper... in COLOR.
As LCD tech reaches its full maturity, and flexible screens come into the picture, colored e-paper is a very promising tech for extremely low-power, semi-static displays.
I wonder when Amazon's Kindle will adopt this display...
Watson's task is to compete (and eventually beat) the World's best Jeopardy champions.
Now, most people might be thinking that chess is a more difficult game than Jeopardy, considering that a computer can access all the information that it could need to compete in Jeopardy. True... but access to information isn't the goal of Watson.
It's understanding human language. For those of you who have been using voice-recog apps, you know how frustrating this can be...even through Google's network, it doesn't quite understand simple queries. And usually, only key-word speech is understood well.
Unlike Deep Blue that had a human operator tell it what moves Kasparov made, and in return Deep Blue told it's human operator what moves to make in return, Watson will have to listen, understand, buzz in (yes, buzz-in), and give the correct question (using the proper syntax) in order to be awarded the points.
The fact that Watson has to listen, buzz, and speak is a big step forward for computer evolution since it effectively makes the machine adapt to the human, rather than the other way around like typing, gesturing, clicking, swiping, etc.
Consider what this means in principle. Currently, when we do a search, we are presented with hundreds of thousands of results. In the end, we still have to sort through it all and select the answer that is relevant to our search. Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves for those that reached him) was the first crude attempt at automated language comprehension. Although not much more than a keyword analyzer, it was an important step in computer-human interaction.
In Jeopardy, Watson will have to understand the topic, then the Jeopardy answer, before sorting through all its information, then giving its final response. And take note, even for humans, recognizing context isn't as easy as it looks... hehehehe...
This webcast aired live on Nov 3, 2010 10:30am - 12:00nn GMT + 8. You are watching an archived video. I was using my Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro and Bambuser to do the live webcast
I've been given a fantastic opportunity to be a guest on Tek Tok TV ... a tech show on GNN (Channel 21 on Destiny Cable TV)
In 12 hours, the show will be live on GNN. I'm hoping that I can get decent 3G reception inside the studio...
If I do, I will hopefully be able to do a simultaneous webcast behind-the-scenes. I will try to embed a live webcast tomorrow (signal strength permitting).
**Update Nov 5, 2010 - Official response from SonyEricsson Philippines** Hi John! The 2.1 update for the X10 and X10 mini pro will be released on the week of Nov 20. The 2.1 update for the X10 mini will be released in the week of Nov 27. You will receive a notification on your phone once an update is available. Thank you! :)
