Apple's SIRI: Serious AI & the Soldier's Servant

Artificial intelligence and associated devices are being built.  Below is a link to a detailed article; here is an excerpt.  Some amazing -- and almost scary -- stuff!

 Apple, artificial intelligence, Stanford Research, SIRI, DARPA, and technology that literally translates to, “Soldier’s Servant;”  It’s in your pocket, pinging your location, and learning more about you minute by minute.  It is designed to learn from your actions and begin making its own decisions.  

http://www.truthistreason.net/introducing-siri-darpa%E2%80%99s-ghost-in-apple%E2%80%99s-machine-artificial-intelligence-and-the-soldiers-servant

Steve Jobs passes away...

Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman and former chief executive of Apple Inc., has passed away.

A visionary inventor and entrepreneur, it would be impossible to overstate Steve Jobs’ impact on technology and how we use it. Apple’s mercurial, mysterious leader did more than reshape his entire industry: he completely changed how we interact with technology. He made gadgets easy to use, gorgeous to behold and essential to own. He made things we absolutely wanted, long before we even knew we wanted them. Jobs’ utter dedication to how people think, touch, feel and interact with machines dictated even the smallest detail of the computers Apple built and the software it wrote.

Read more here:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/jobs/

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs