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The 31 ExoBrain Videos. I have gone through all 31 videos and it has been an eye-opening experience. I am an Electronics and Communications engineer, and I love computing, but more than that I love working with people. During all my professional life I have wondered why it was so difficult to communicate with computers or, more to the point, why it was so difficult to make them do what I wanted them to do.
An exceptionally good example of this is that when I was a young engineer, I worked with the first autonomous voice-activated system designed for commercial use, specifically banking and security. It was clunky, it could recognize around 50 words and it was expensive and difficult to interconnect to anything. I have been wondering why after decades of technology advances, it is still so difficult to make a computer respond to our orders. With all the resources that they have behind them, Google Voice, Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri, are just incredibly ineffective assistants, that cannot make anything happen in a computer for real.
My mistake was to think that it was a hardware problem (not enough powerful processors), but not that the problem was in how computing is done and how our computers and software applications are built to operate in a totally alien way to how an average human being operates.
Through these videos I saw the different things that need to be moved out of the way and the things that need to be added so that computers can be aligned with how we operate and, in this way, finally start to build computing systems that properly respond and operate using voice commands.
The problem was that computing evolved the wrong way, not to become more and more like the natural way of human operation but trying to convince all of us that we must operate like the clunky machines that exist today.
Exo Tech is not only convenient, it is essential to arrive someday to the type and power of computing that can help us to create a new civilization on this planet and move to the stars.