it's hard for the same reasons eldercare or childcare robotics is hard... highly individual, messy needs where a careless or movement will destroy what's valuable, it's mindful grinding, the residual complexity in a difficult situation that's just hard to algorithmically scale
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For whatever reason, they decided to index ALL photographs, I see no option to just index the photographs with text in them, or some such filter. So now I have an app with hundreds of random photos that the app thinks I'm going to annotate. NO. I JUST WANT TEXT SCREENSHOTS.
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And I don't want them in a damn app, I want them sent to my email or a spreadsheet or a doc where I can do something slightly more general with them besides search.
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In general, I think personal data processing apps should aim to be highly lean and store nothing. They should just pipe the most general, manually usable information to the most general processing software (text, spreadsheet)
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The equivalent in robotics is that we have highly sophisticated welding and assembly robotics, but home robotics hasn't advanced much beyond a fairly crappy vacuum cleaner and a temperamental "smart" thermostat
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The closest we've come to the holy grail of consumer grade personal robotics -- a diaper-changing/smart bedpan eldercare robot -- is automated cat litter boxes (we have one... lifechanger;
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Do you think overhyping AI refers to what's available TODAY? That seems like a misread. What the internet promised in late 80s (Neuromancer, Snow Crash) we have today in mostly a better form. 1/
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We have wireless maps anywhere we go, for gods sake. Who needs the silliness of exploring cyberspace as real space (which was tried and dropped, not bcs we can't do it, but bcs it's dumb, from eWorld to Second Life). 2/
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Is it that? All our digital media are webtech based these days & (as a xanadu fanboy) I maintain that webtech is *unnecessarily* hostile to reliable clipping of arbitrary content, because of how markup is handled & the lack of guarantees about content mutability.
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