On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 23:56 +0000, Stephen Loosley wrote:
A new AI device optimized for empathy ...
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." As Jean Giraudoux, or George Burns, perhaps said. ;-)
The problem with all these things is very simple: They are not self- contained. ...
ELIZA did a good job of apparently listening to our problems in the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Sadly, it doesn't take a supercomputer to emulate a sympathetic listener, and could be done entirely on a smart phone. But that would be of little value to corporations wanting to monitor us, so they can sell us stuff.
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