I'm not uninterested in building something like Skype, Google Talk, or Twitter because of the technical issues. I'm uninterested because I have no good ideas (or passion) about solving a significant problem with them.
There are lots of things I'd do if you gave me technology that does not really exist. Stuff like speaker independent speech-to-text that's as accurate as an expert human could transcribe. Or language translation that was as good as an expert human. Or almost anything that let me have the power of a human brain for free (no, not MTurk).
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I'm not uninterested in building something like Skype, Google Talk, or Twitter because of the technical issues. I'm uninterested because I have no good ideas (or passion) about solving a significant problem with them.
There are lots of things I'd do if you gave me technology that does not really exist. Stuff like speaker independent speech-to-text that's as accurate as an expert human could transcribe. Or language translation that was as good as an expert human. Or almost anything that let me have the power of a human brain for free (no, not MTurk).