Happy New Year 2019: Resolve To Have Growing Pain Understanding
Hi! Happy New Years Eve! I'm writing this on New Years Eve, 2018, at the only Starbucks in Bangor, Maine. Oddly enough there recently were two Starbucks in Bangor, and as you might expect they were right next to each other. Further, if you count the Starbucks in the Target store then that would mean there were three within a one mile radius and then none for at least forty miles. Weird, huh? This morning I rolled over and asked Alexa to make me a ham sandwich. The device said, "Okay, you are now a ham sandwich." Ha! The artificial intelligence in Alexa only applies to the voice recognition software. The Alexa conversation is all scripted. So that means someone heard that joke somewhere and programmed Alexa with that response. Thinking about the conversation with some anonymous person who wrote the response tickles my fancy more so than any AI pretend conversation. AI, artificial intelligence, is going through some growing pains. Having patience with growing pa