On 12 Sep, 09:59, Boltar wrote:
On Sep 11, 8:52 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

brain, but it can do some quite amazing and unexpected things. Have you
come across this gait analysis business, for instance? Basically, software
can extract enough unique information about the way someone walks to
uniquely identify them in a crowd. Big-brother-tastic!

Thats what the companies who sell the software keep saying. Personally
I have my doubts about how reliable it would be. If software still
isn't up to the task of doing decent object or handwriting or speech
recognition then what are the odds it can *reliably* spot a specific
person in a crowd by the way they walk? I'll believe it when I see it.

B2003

It's yet another attempt at trying to get computers to do things that
people do well. Computers are best used for things that people don't
do well.

Computers can do thousands of totally accurate calcluations in a
second, which people can't, so that's what they should be used for.
It doesn't mean that computers are cleverer than people for all tasks.

People, on the other hand, can recognise each other and understand
speech. Trying to get a computer to do this is like trying to get a
car to walk upstairs, just because it's better than a person at doing
70 mph and therefore supposedly faster in all contexts.