I have just read about Daisy the AI who is used by a phone network to speak to scammers. I have listened to a clip of her who sounds like a lovely old lady who enjoys baking and winds up the scammer in her conversations where she sounds confused. I don't know quite how it works but sounds a good idea.
Daisy sounds like a good use of AI, but one of the few. I think some of the medical advances could be good like checking mamograms and stuff, but to my mind it still needs to proved over a longer term. Over all I'm not in favour of it or more computerisation of life.
I agree that it is not good in some cases, for example where it replaces human employees. I also don't like these things that you talk to in the home and they do things for you. I have been in people's houses where they have had to tell it not to do something because it picks up on conversation.
I hope not either, I've had loads of arguments with techies and nerds about my treatment of computers, that I shouldn't shout at them or threaten them, these people take it so seriously. Oddly enough they never want to help me with my tech problems, just tell me off and/or laugh at me as I have yet another disaster.
I often have problems getting a word in during conversations with more than one person and end up saying nothing, I could just see me being talked over by an "assistant" and shut down, I suppose the only advantage would be that I could unplug it, although with all thw battery life in these things probably even that wouldn't work. And what about these fridges that order your shopping for you? What if it ignores you and you end up with 200 pints of milk you don't want, I know its supposed to be easy to use these things, but we all know they never are in reality.
I hope not either, I've had loads of arguments with techies and nerds about my treatment of computers, that I shouldn't shout at them or threaten them, these people take it so seriously. Oddly enough they never want to help me with my tech problems, just tell me off and/or laugh at me as I have yet another disaster.
I often have problems getting a word in during conversations with more than one person and end up saying nothing, I could just see me being talked over by an "assistant" and shut down, I suppose the only advantage would be that I could unplug it, although with all thw battery life in these things probably even that wouldn't work. And what about these fridges that order your shopping for you? What if it ignores you and you end up with 200 pints of milk you don't want, I know its supposed to be easy to use these things, but we all know they never are in reality.
