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>>rbanff+(OP)
Alexa should be treated as a different kind of stranger. I think it's a huge mistake for children to talk to computers. It's inherently dishonest for a single voice to represent something so manipulative and fluid as if it's a person.

Amusing example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECcIJW67-M

>>jakeog+pc4
It's not amusing at all. It's incredibly spot on. Alexa has very limited knowledge and 0 interpretation skills, but, worse than all, behaves as if it does.

(note that, in a sense, a book has very limited knowledge and 0 interpretation skills, but its behaviour is passive).

>>wiz21c+3n4
Indeed, I hate that AI is such a buzzword when what we have are a fraction of where we need to be. We have jigsaw puzzle pieces, really tiny ones in what feels like an infinitely large (or who knows how many pieces) jigsaw puzzle.

I don't mind them being called "Voice Assistants" though, but don't tell me it's AI or ML, since it doesn't truly learn, it calibrates your voice if anything. It doesn't do a darn thing on it's own, someone has to tell it to do that thing, like in some cases the very human communicating. When they are fully autonomous... THEN I'll be happy, and creeped out at the same time.

The real change with AI will be if the masses are allowed to build their own relatively easily enough. When even kids are allowed to be creative with different AI's it will get interesting enough.

Sadly some megacorp will buy it out and lock it up is more likely to happen.

>>gianca+nq4
> ... but don't tell me it's AI or ML, since it doesn't truly learn

Give it time and it'll be like in the movies. I'm a tinfoil hat, vpns, adblockers, but that youtube made me want one, it's funny :)