From Singularity
by Nikki Olson on March 7, 2011
When we conceptualize AI, we often forget that it is not something that has to operate in a single location, or have intelligence qualities like our own. We are already surrounded by AI systems that are nothing like our own intelligence, that utilize many machines spread out over large distances, and are equally ‘present’ in many locations.
In the future we will bring AI systems like these into our homes in the form of ‘smart environments.’ In doing so we introduce new and interesting relationships between man and machine. However, there may be some limits as to how ‘alive’ we want our AI homes to be.
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http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/smart-homes-is-ai-the-ghost-in-the-machine/
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