{"id":3632,"date":"2024-01-05T02:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T02:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/a-i-eh-aye-pray-why-part-1\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T02:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T02:31:25","slug":"a-i-eh-aye-pray-why-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/a-i-eh-aye-pray-why-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A I, Eh? Aye; Pray Why? (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Ah, those were he days when real demonstrations were shown LIVE! Remember Mr Coates? Seem here whimsically deminstrating a Wimshurst Machiner.<\/p>\n And here is lecturer Professor Mike Woodridge shaking hands with a hand – as you do.<\/p>\n Arriving through the letterbox at fbb mansions today should be the Prof’s book in the Pelican series.<\/p>\n fbb is hoping it will be more informative than the lectures which were disappointingly “thin” with weak demonstrations.\u00a0 It is hard to think of suitable visual demo material when the whole caboodle is wrapped up in hgh speed computer chips and involves assembling and responding to many truck loads of data – also in impenetrable bits and bytes.<\/p><\/div>\n … and replace it with this!<\/p>\n The new timetable still offers four buses an hour but at varied and very “non-fixed” intervals. So, for the poor passenger, there is no chance of remembering the times of their bus and, effectively, the service becomes officially unreliable as a result<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n It may be worth pausing to try t understand what exactly<\/span> is meant by Ai<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n So we feed her\/him\/it with every bit of information we can find and tell her\/him\/it to run a large bus company. The robot MD would still not be “intelligent”<\/span>. To be\u00a0 “intelligent<\/span>” we would have to allow the robot above to make value judgements, to get things wrong and to learn from its mistakes.<\/p><\/div>\n So here is a chunk of the 4 timetable, once operating every 15 minutes clock face, but is now not quite every 20 minutes<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n Artificial intelligence<\/span>?<\/p><\/div>\n Like many mobile phone owners, fbb is plagued by adverts for Stagecoach Megabus<\/span>. He is unlikely to take a ride, mainly because there are no Megabus services nearer than Exeter.<\/p><\/div>\n … but before you book it is best o know when and where you might be booking for<\/span>. So that implies a map and a timetable.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n But where is the timetable<\/span>? Will this page help?<\/p><\/div>\n It is a humungously huge departure list of Megabus services from Birmingham in departure time order – but no arrival time details or stop detail.<\/p><\/div>\n