The primary idea beyond augmented reality is to superimpose pics, audio and other sensory improvements over a real-international environment in real time. Sounds quite easy. besides, have not tv networks been doing that with photographs for decades? but, augmented reality is more superior than any technology you've seen in television broadcasts, despite the fact that some new tv effects come near, including RACEf/x and the wonderful-imposed first down line on televised U.S. football games, both created via Sportvision. but these structures display snap shots for most effective one point of view. next-generation augmented-reality systems will show images for each viewer's perspective.

Today we will touch an interesting topic of machine learning of natural languages. Nowadays very large investments are made in this region and many different tasks are being solved. This topic attracts the attention not only of industry but also of the scientific community.

Can the machine think?

Researchers correlate the analysis of natural languages ​​with the fundamental question: can a machine think? The famous philosopher Rene Descartes gave an unambiguously negative answer. Not surprising, given the level of development of technology of the XVII century. Descartes believed that the machine does not know how and will never learn to think. The machine will never be able to communicate with a person through natural speech. Even if we explain to it how to use and pronounce words, it will still be memorized phrases, standard answers - the machine does not go beyond them.

Turing test

Since then, many years have passed, the technology has changed quite a lot, and in the twentieth century this issue again became relevant. The well-known scientist Alan Turing in 1950 doubted that the machine can not think, and for testing offered his famous test.

The idea of ​​the test, according to legend, is based on the game that was practiced at student parties. Two people from the company - a guy and a girl - went to different rooms, and the remaining people communicated with them with the help of notes. The task of the players was to guess with whom they are dealing: with a man or with a woman. And the guy with the girl pretended to each other to mislead the other players. Turing made a fairly simple modification. He replaced one of the hidden players with a computer and invited the participants to recognize with whom they interact: with a person or with a machine.

The Turing test was invented more than half a century ago. Programmers have repeatedly stated that their offspring passed the test. Every time there were controversial demands and questions, is it really so. The official reliable version, whether someone coped with the main test of Turing is no. Some of its variations have actually been successfully passed.

This technology was vigorously discussed at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. Bankers from Wall Street invest money in it. Mark Andreesen, the famous developer of the world's first Web browser (Netscape) and one of the founders of Netscape Communications, called it the most important technology since the advent of the Internet. What is it about? Of course, about the blockchain.

Created by a mysterious hacker named Satoshi Nakamoto, distributed register technology, which is the basis of the crypto currency, Bitcoin, also known as a blockchain, can drastically change many industries, from finance and real estate to the entertainment industry. This forces the Silicon Valley titans, world financial leaders and even independent developers to hastily calculate the consequences of the appearance of this technology, so as not to be caught unaware.

Tim Swanson, the head of R3's development department (a New York start-up, organized with the support of a consortium of large banks), called the blockchain something like glutene: everybody talks about it, but no one really knows all the details. Quite simply, the blockchain is used to transfer something that has value: money, shares, property rights, digital license fees, even the votes of voters in the elections through the Internet from one party to another...

We offer blockchain development solutions for any kind of buisness: online payments, financial software, royalty collection.

Today, such transactions often pass through many intermediate parties in the process of authorization, clearing and processing, and are stored in centralized registries of organizations such as the Central Bank (if it comes to financial transactions) or the system of electronic registration of mortgage transactions.

Blockchain distributes the functions of validation and storing the transactions between several computers in a safe and open way, eliminating the need for intermediaries. As a result, the time and costs of processing transactions are practically reduced to zero. Alex Tapscott, CEO of Northwest Passage Ventures (specializing in block chains), sees this technology as the next generation of the Internet, which he calls the Internet of Value.

Since both the original technology of block chains for bitcoins and its new variations, according to Tepskott, have the most powerful potential for transforming huge branches of the economy, the first attempts to develop solutions based on blockchain were made in two areas: in financial services and in creativity, namely music and advertising.