As we master the basics of AI -- creating intelligent appliances and cars into a commercial reality -- we will be faced with the choice about whether to pursue more human-like intelligences.
Belkin's WeMo gives intelligence to dumb appliances via smart plugs that sit between your socket and your toaster, lamp, heater or whatever else you'd like to automate or control via a smartphone.
It can't be all that hard to add a communications overlay to wires and meters using the ubiquitous products available from the telecom and Internet world, nor to add rudimentary intelligence to electrical appliances, thermostats, transmission gear and the like.
They put voices in automobile dashboards, intelligence in home appliances and men into space.
Google has added to its payroll the best and brightest minds in the fields of military defense, robotics (including humanoid robotics), defense, surveillance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, web-controlled household appliances (such as Nest thermostats), and self-driving cars.
Another possibility is that cheap computing power will simply add intelligence to everything from our appliances to our clothing, and every object will join into an organically linked network.
firm specializing in control networks for buildings, has been trying since 1988 to get appliance manufacturers to embed "intelligence" within the sensors in their products.
The intelligence within and between tools and appliances will create a significantly safer, impressively more versatile, easier to use and functional home.
We also developed a business intelligence platform using the Ingres Icebreaker BI appliance for Salesforce.com, and added information from Intacct and other systems running on the open-source Jaspersoft suite of reporting and analytics tools.
"Still a Long Way From Checkmate" (Dec. 28) -- about how artificial intelligence is affecting, or may affect, consumer appliances -- hinted at some lovely windmills in the sky.
