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Because a computer is standing in for a human unbeknownst to another human. The computer is effectively tricking a person into thinking it's another person... b
by speedplane 8y ago
Because a computer is standing in for a human unbeknownst to another human. The computer is effectively tricking a person into thinking it's another person... but tricking nevertheless. This opens a whole new door of opportunity and failure.
- zero_iq 8y agoOh hi. I'm, uh, calling to arrange the manufacture of a large quantity of paperclips for a client...
- red75prime 8y agoTricking implies intention. The computer has no such intention yet. Google has it, or, most likely, Google just want to get data efficiently, tricking is a side effect of how good their speech processing is.
- phreeza 8y agoDoes Google have intentions? Or do only individuals have intentions? Serious question, I am sure philosophers have thought about this.
- LyndsySimon 8y agoIf Google - an organization with a purpose, charter, and organizational goals - can have intent... how is that different from software?
- red75prime 8y agoIt is not that different. The software just doesn't have the intent to trick humans into thinking it is a human. There's no feedback loop assessing performance of tricking humans and changing behavior to increase it. To be precise, such feedback loop is probably external to the software and implemented by the engineers.
- mgiannopoulos 8y agoYeah but they just got a tweet from a professor and repeated it three times. A bit more effort could be made.