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sambantam82 said:
I used to teach English abroad and by pot luck I was allocated to the head of Samsung's Polish offices in Warsaw. I had free reign on topics to discuss so I asked him exactly this question or something along those lines. He said the thing that will be big within the next 20 years is what is currently termed 'the Internet of things'. I've tried to read up on it loads but I still don't really get it. The guy who I had lessons with explained it like it's the Internet for computers themselves so that computers can communicate with one another for the benefit of humans.

He gave an example of a household set up where everything works around our behaviour and how machinery and computers work with one another. For example, when you come home from work your electrical devices operate automatically in a way that they have become accustomed to from reading your daily habits. I guess it's like a very advanced smart home set up.

What I really remember is that he said the 'Internet of things' will make contemporary products look antiquated and obsolete in an unprecedentedly short timescale.
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That’s alarmingly sky net. Time to go off grid I reckon.
 


Techy wise, i don't want much. All i ask is for xmas type twinkly lights ( like those hanging from household guttering ) to be wrapped around our opponents goalposts, flashing, especially when josh Scowen is about to smash a few more floodlights on the stands.

If i ever end up in front of a firing squad, i want them all to be Scowen clones.
 
monolithic baby said:
a quantum computer prototype detected up to 76 photons through Gaussian boson sampling (GBS), a standard simulation algorithm
Cut to the chase....What’s the porn like?
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You'll be able to watch Victoria and Albert getting it on and make up a threesome if you want to.
 
sambantam82 said:
I used to teach English abroad and by pot luck I was allocated to the head of Samsung's Polish offices in Warsaw. I had free reign on topics to discuss so I asked him exactly this question or something along those lines. He said the thing that will be big within the next 20 years is what is currently termed 'the Internet of things'. I've tried to read up on it loads but I still don't really get it. The guy who I had lessons with explained it like it's the Internet for computers themselves so that computers can communicate with one another for the benefit of humans.

He gave an example of a household set up where everything works around our behaviour and how machinery and computers work with one another. For example, when you come home from work your electrical devices operate automatically in a way that they have become accustomed to from reading your daily habits. I guess it's like a very advanced smart home set up.

What I really remember is that he said the 'Internet of things' will make contemporary products look antiquated and obsolete in an unprecedentedly short timescale.
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So it will save me the chore of turning the lights on and the heating down? Can’t wait.
 
sambantam82 said:
I used to teach English abroad and by pot luck I was allocated to the head of Samsung's Polish offices in Warsaw. I had free reign on topics to discuss so I asked him exactly this question or something along those lines. He said the thing that will be big within the next 20 years is what is currently termed 'the Internet of things'. I've tried to read up on it loads but I still don't really get it. The guy who I had lessons with explained it like it's the Internet for computers themselves so that computers can communicate with one another for the benefit of humans.

He gave an example of a household set up where everything works around our behaviour and how machinery and computers work with one another. For example, when you come home from work your electrical devices operate automatically in a way that they have become accustomed to from reading your daily habits. I guess it's like a very advanced smart home set up.

What I really remember is that he said the 'Internet of things' will make contemporary products look antiquated and obsolete in an unprecedentedly short timescale.
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The IoT is the next big thing but the bulk of it is just building on stuff that has been around for decades and refining it. It's things like your house will know when you wake up / go to sleep and will heat the house accordingly and if you change your pattern it will automatically realise and learn to adjust it based on your habits. Lights will be sensored so they switch on and off automatically when you enter a room like most offices have had for years.

At the minute a lot of it is driven by the smart speakers so you can buy lights that are controlled by the smart speaker you can adjust your heating etc by talking to that too, but the ultimate goal is that you don't even need to do that the house learns and adjusts without you having to do much.
 
Load of speculation over the last couple of decades about something called the "Technological Singularity" - basically once a computer can design and build a better version of itself then it will be very hard to predict what will happen as computers will iteratively design better and better versions of themselves and jumps towards a true AI happen very rapidly.

Skynet is one end of the spectrum and something like star trek's holodeck is the other end where our computer overlords basically keep us humans like well pampered zoo animals :O :D
 
Tire said:
Load of speculation over the last couple of decades about something called the "Technological Singularity" - basically once a computer can design and build a better version of itself then it will be very hard to predict what will happen as computers will iteratively design better and better versions of themselves and jumps towards a true AI happen very rapidly.

Skynet is one end of the spectrum and something like star trek's holodeck is the other end where our computer overlords basically keep us humans like well pampered zoo animals :O :D
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I can't remember if it was Microsoft or Google but one of them developed an AI that had access to a crazy amount of information and you could hold full conversations with it. To test it they created a second AI and they started having a conversation. They had to shut it down because after a few hours they'd switched from conversing in English to their own made up language that the engineers couldn't understand
 
sambantam82 said:
I used to teach English abroad and by pot luck I was allocated to the head of Samsung's Polish offices in Warsaw. I had free reign on topics to discuss so I asked him exactly this question or something along those lines. He said the thing that will be big within the next 20 years is what is currently termed 'the Internet of things'. I've tried to read up on it loads but I still don't really get it. The guy who I had lessons with explained it like it's the Internet for computers themselves so that computers can communicate with one another for the benefit of humans.

He gave an example of a household set up where everything works around our behaviour and how machinery and computers work with one another. For example, when you come home from work your electrical devices operate automatically in a way that they have become accustomed to from reading your daily habits. I guess it's like a very advanced smart home set up.

What I really remember is that he said the 'Internet of things' will make contemporary products look antiquated and obsolete in an unprecedentedly short timescale.
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I've got Alexi switching on and off 5 sets of house and garden Christmas lights.
What a time to be alive
 
Horace Cope said:
The IoT is the next big thing but the bulk of it is just building on stuff that has been around for decades and refining it. It's things like your house will know when you wake up / go to sleep and will heat the house accordingly and if you change your pattern it will automatically realise and learn to adjust it based on your habits. Lights will be sensored so they switch on and off automatically when you enter a room like most offices have had for years.

At the minute a lot of it is driven by the smart speakers so you can buy lights that are controlled by the smart speaker you can adjust your heating etc by talking to that too, but the ultimate goal is that you don't even need to do that the house learns and adjusts without you having to do much.
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The question is why? What is so difficult about pressing a switch?
 
sambantam82 said:
I used to teach English abroad and by pot luck I was allocated to the head of Samsung's Polish offices in Warsaw. I had free reign on topics to discuss so I asked him exactly this question or something along those lines. He said the thing that will be big within the next 20 years is what is currently termed 'the Internet of things'. I've tried to read up on it loads but I still don't really get it. The guy who I had lessons with explained it like it's the Internet for computers themselves so that computers can communicate with one another for the benefit of humans.

He gave an example of a household set up where everything works around our behaviour and how machinery and computers work with one another. For example, when you come home from work your electrical devices operate automatically in a way that they have become accustomed to from reading your daily habits. I guess it's like a very advanced smart home set up.

What I really remember is that he said the 'Internet of things' will make contemporary products look antiquated and obsolete in an unprecedentedly short timescale.
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IoT has been around for a while now. Lots of everyday devices and applications that were unconnected that talk to each other now. I worked on few projects for a Mobile company who were launching products a few years ago and there are some that you will take for granted now

Internet of things - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 
Beery said:
in future people will be asking why we ever had manual switches in the 1st place
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I think we will always want some manual control and it has to be easy to do.

You don't always want all of the lights on bright in your lounge, but sometimes you do. It depends what you are doing - so automating it is tricky. - and you don't want to have to grab your smartphone/tablet each time you want to turn the lights on and off.

Voice activation/control might be the best way forward without switches, but you will have to live in the dark if you get a sore throat.

I have some lights automated (hallway/bathroom etc) as if it is dark you want the lights on there and don't want to be grovelling around for switches, although I do still have switches for when the automation fails! Other parts of the house its hard to beat a good old-fashioned switch or dimmer.
 
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