Benefits include ease of operation and the ability to leverage existing systems and infrastructure designed for general use with a large set of latent capabilities to draw on when needed, as well as the familiarity that comes from reuse of existing, known, and well-understood security and operational models.
But Las Vegas is banking on more than its current gaming and convention capabilities to draw visitors and fill hotel rooms.
And yet so many other computational systems that exhibit astounding amounts of problem-solving capabilities seem to draw very little inspiration from nervous systems—Wolfram Alpha, for example, or Boston Dynamics' robots, or a lot of the expert systems AI work done a few decades ago.
The researchers speculated that perhaps touch screens with their interactive capabilities help to draw a child's attention to relevant information.
"Inside a thread you have identity, transaction capabilities, the ability to draw UI, and draw native buttons and interfaces," Marcus explained.
The NSTD team learned that the most requested capability was the ability to "draw an area on a map and tell me how long it will take to evacuate the people from there". To simplify that task into a stand-alone and functioning model, Waddell said, "we had to constrain this for populations using passenger vehicles," which is the primary way that Americans evacuate most areas during a disaster.
On one occasion when reflecting back on the encounter with the girl, he acknowledges his capability as a storyteller to "draw a veil over the truth to attenuate its force and clarity".
Moving to enhance its PlayStation 3 game console, Sony today plans to announce new online capabilities for it, meant to draw gamers into Sony's cyberspace community and allow them to share entertainment content they have created, à la YouTube.
With less fanfare but similar uproar was the now infamous "Homeless Hotspots" promotion at South by Southwest, where a marketer attempted to promote their hotspot capabilities while also claiming to draw attention to the issue of homelessness by actually making the homeless men and women around the conference walking hotspots.
Adjacent innovations allow a company to draw on existing capabilities but necessitate putting those capabilities to new uses.
