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Hey, so right about the time I've been posting about sign languages, and ...
... a day after I answered that poll about whether babies are cute, this video popped up in my YouTube subscription feed:
Eye contact. Proper Closed Captions in English. ~10 minutes.
Summary: Professional linguist and parent of a toddler, explains what Baby Sign is, how it differs from ASL (and other natural sign languages), and discusses his family's experience with using Baby Sign with his own daughter.
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Droidspeak and natural languages
Current headcanon based on the question: Why donât all droids have vocoders? Putting aside issues of droid!slavery (which is a huge unresolved issue, in my mind, donât tell me they are intelligent puppies/toddlers, that makes it worse), iâll make the following argument: Droids evolved that beep language among themselves ala any other natural language, like a sign language. Think about it. Would you put a vocoder on a roomba? No. So why would you put it on an astromech droid? Iâm thinking, as artificial intelligence and artificial life was developed among robotic machines in Star wars, they started spontaneously communicating among themselves, transmitting to their fellow beeping machines their droid language. Even machines which humanoids had no intention of communicating with outside of interfaces. It is not that humans couldnât program voices into robots, but only robots meant for regular human interaction had that voice module. Otherwise, why? it just adds to the cost. But the droids, themselves, being intelligent and sentient, desired communication. And since they could understand language and voice commands, they had natural language processing intelligence, so it is no great leap to believe they would develop it. And just like toddlers that grow up in multilingual households, most young humanoids with robots in the house learn to understand those beeps fluently enough for casual communication (for more important job stuff you might rely on an interpreter or computer interface). Maybe not all humans are fluent in droidspeak. But some are. I donât know, I think it is cute, maybe someone like Poe Dameron was exposed to R2D2 a lot as a kid, hanging out with the resistance from a young age, can understand BB-8 fluently, like Han understands Chewie. And people demanding droids all have vocoders for convenience are like people demanding the deaf should speak and read lips only -- they are denying a crucial bit of droid culture.Â
Overcoming the fear of AI
Instead of fearing that artificial brain, you should stand in awe of the one you've been given.
Technology can save the dooming areas of the healthcare industry, and natural language processing is a strong contender to fill all gaps. From simplifying revenue cycle management to perfecting diagnosis, this technology automates every aspect.
intelligence is cheaper than you th_nk
so this month, like most months these days, i went to rise & design at the northern design centre in gateshead. for those unfamiliar, itâs a lot like a networking event, except itâs run by and for designers, so itâs fun. (if youâre interested, then check them out here: http://www.designnetworknorth.org/events/). come say hi, iâll give you one of my sexy new business cards, weâll get some bacon sandwiches. itâll be fun.
anyway, this monthâs event was about artificial intelligence. not general ai, the kind that will eventually make humanity obsolete, thatâs still a while off yet -- this one was more about the integrated types of ai we already see in the modern world. three gentlemen from th_nk (read: think), a digital agency operating in the area, came in and gave talks about different applications of lesser ai. there was a discussion about the efficiency of âconversational interfacesâ (talking to machines in natural languages as opposed to typing and clicking), a small demo of the amazon alexa as the worldâs most intelligent shopping list, and, most importantly, mocking the google home device for looking like a damned plant pot. itâs had that one coming for a while.
sentient plant pots aside, there was one thing i found incredibly interesting. as it happens, there are a number of services which offer certain ai features as a service. natural language processing, for example. the advantage of this is the exact same advantage an api or interface usualy gives -- you have access to a feature you otherwise wouldnât without having to do nearly as much work as setting it up your self. given that even simple functions of ai and machine learning are what the professionals refer to as âbloody difficultâ, this is an incredibly valuable thing. iâm going to check out some of the sources referenced by the guys from th_nk in their talk and give a run-down of each of them, but thatâs getting a post all of itâs own. until then... donât let the machines take over. your plant pots may be more intelligent than you realise.
-selby
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i give up long live natlangs, for they are superior
Of course I am bilingual, well....in the sense that I know multiple formal languages, but not multiple natural languages.
