The Search for Artificial Intelligence

I was playing around with the Kinect SDK the other day, so far its pretty impressive, however I fail to see how this technology will help anyone in the real world except help you look like a tool dancing around your living room  trying to out dance someone on xbox live on dance central.

Fair enough I can see use for the voice recognition system and from the tests I was able to perform it works quite well for in any normal sized room. this could be used for people with disabilities.

My father suffers from Parkinson's disease, pretty much sucks for him and I can see the frustration with him trying to use a mouse and keyboard, breaks my heart sometimes. the issue is ease of use.

I bought dragon naturally speaking for him the other day, but for someone like him it sucks, most of the systems need hours of training and aren't very good at picking up commands.

you need to have the mike set at the same position every time you want to use it and its difficult for people with difficulties.

I wonder if there would be an easier way of doing things without the hassle of voice training and having to remember a million keywords for achieving a simple search on Google. something with some AI (Artificial Intelligence), that could prompt a user on what they are trying to achieve, sort of like a digital assistant.

I had an after thought, the Computer vision system of the kinect could be used for deaf people and interpret sign language, into the same sort of computer control. or even automatic sign to English conversation for the hearing in a room.
Would you use something like this? imagine being on your couch and talking to your PC like it was a super smart buddy you call when you cant get something right on your machine.

Hello is thing on?....

Welcome to my blog, I am software designer lost in a sea of my own code trying to find out what I could build for myself, well something different from the usual boring stuff I normally build for the logistics company I currently work for.

I find myself feeling like I missed the bus by only a few years, maybe 2 or 3, but feel there is still hope, and there must be something I can offer the world of computing, especially since computing has provided me with an income for the last 10 years. time to give something back...

Still there are some days I wish I had taken up farming, life would be simpler.

I love what i do, don't get me wrong, I am just frustrated with the shitty ideas and meaningless tasks i am asked to perform with my gift, I am waisting my time and need to start doing something to revive the spark in my life.

I have a few ideas i would like to share with you, in the coming posts on ideas I have had for the Internet and computing.

but first i have three questions for you.

1: My first question would have to be what do you HATE about the Internet in its current state?
2: and what do think is missing from the Internet's current formula?
3: What do you hate about computers in general?

I ask myself these 3 questions daily, the problem is I think like a machine (well metaphorically anyway) show me a problem and I will find a way to fix it, this is where i am lost, I sit at my desk all day wishing i was at home and then when i am at home I wish work had a project worth the time and effort to build.

I have come to the realisation I need help.... post a reply to even one of the questions above and maybe a spark will light the fires and kick the tires so to speak and we can start something worthwhile.