Well said, if one may write Karl. You make excellent points. Maybe the manufactures might offer three versions of HAL. One that has full-on net-interactivity, one that has simple phone-a-friend safety resources/features and the third being fully stand-alone.
How exciting/dangerous each version is would then be up to the maker’s imagination. Speaking for our place, we have TV which offers the three main listening-systems and have not enabled any of them, and will not. But we might buy any phone-a-friend one? Cheers K From: Karl Auer<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 18 March 2022 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [LINK] New AI device optimized for empathy to solve senior isolation? On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 23:56 +0000, Stephen Loosley wrote: > A new AI device optimized for empathy will either solve the problem > of senior isolation or fling us into a dystopic abyss The problem with all these things is very simple: They are not self- contained. They *look* self-contained, they are typically marketed *as if* they were self-contained, but when you talk to ElliQ (or Siri, or Cortana, or Alexa, or...), you are not talking to it and it alone; you are talking to a vast network of computers and databases, and indirectly to the people operating those things. Your every interaction - and in fact anything you do or say in the vicinity of such a device - is supplied to the vendor to do whatever they like with. I would *love* to have an intelligent, adaptive robot companion! How cool would that be? But I just can't imagine getting pally with what amounts to a speaker, microphone and camera in a box, knowing that it is sharing everything I do or say with people I do not know and whose motives I cannot even guess at. Put the smarts IN the robot, and I'm in. Until then, I'm very much *out*. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 61A0 99A9 8823 3A75 871E 5D90 BADB B237 260C 9C58 Old fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
