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“Genuine people personalities” are coming to our gadgets?
- eps 8y agoPersonalities are nice and all, but I would settle for a nav system that speaks in Morgan Freeman's voice.
- pjc50 8y agoThis used to be a thing - alternative voices for satnav recorded by famous people. I wonder why it went away?
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- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI'd guess it's at least partly because pre-recorded ones can't pronounce street names.
- eps 8y agoNo, really? Got a link?
- pjc50 8y agohttps://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/you-can-now-get-morgan-freeman-as-the-voice-of-your-sat-nav-10883 https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/you-can-now-get-morgan-f...
- ryanchoi 8y agoI haven't used Waze in a long time but i seem to recall them having a similar feature a few years back... But they were temporary (promotional?) and may or may not work anymore. Maybe it takes some fiddling. A reddit thread with some waze voice packs: https://www.reddit.com/r/waze/comments/3pi5yl/waze_voice_packs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/waze/comments/3pi5yl/waze_voice_pac...
- aswanson 8y agoGod's voice as a copilot. Sounds awesome.
- jnurmine 8y agoI would love to have one that talks and behaves like TARS from Interstellar. Suitably robotic, yet not completely artificial.
- wanda 8y agoSounds ghastly.
- eli_gottlieb 8y agoJolly good, my next major electronics purchase will want me to know it's feeling very depressed.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoIt is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Just look at this door...
- isoprophlex 8y agoWhat a nightmare. ---- The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please." From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt's money-gulping door. "I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it." (Philip K Dick - Ubik)
- PavlovsCat 8y agoThe Office Space printer scene, now coming to real life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD2xBXm4y70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD2xBXm4y70
- kps 8y agoAw, you cut out the part describing service-based IoT: He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
- isoprophlex 8y agoI went for brevity but you are absolutely right, it's a lot better (and scarier) with that bit left in
- amelius 8y agoThis comes close to what I feel when I use SaaS software.
- Gys 8y agoIn a few years we will have our best friend constantly in our ear. He / she will be the ideal friend: always happy to chat, to give answers, tell a joke, know what to do and buy. This will be virtual person, controlled ultimately by Google, Facebook or Amazon. Many will prefer to be with that person instead of real people, at least most of their time.
- rusk 8y agoSounds good but I already have a wife?
- fromthestart 8y agoHaving an entity like Google have such a finely detailed profile for an individual sounds like fuel for a dystopian nightmare. But I imagine that, like the internet, it will be so useful that the exchange of privacy for convenience will be worthwhile.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoIdeal friend? Funny friends you must have. A "friend" whose every action, however minute, is carefully crafted to part you from more money, or get you to view more adverts. A "friend" who does nothing whatsoever altruistically in your interests. The most toxic type of person many of us have met is the struggling commission only salesperson. They are the ones who will come over for Christmas dinner and spend whole time trying to hard sell everyone their product/life insurance/investment opportunity. Many will choose to avoid that person like the plague whilst possibly regretting losing their formerly benign "friend". Me, I'd disconnect entirely if I had to have that "friend" constantly in my ear to stay connected.
- eli_gottlieb 8y ago>And so might we all in a couple more years. That’s because, according to Gartner Research VP Brian Burke, 80 percent of emerging technologies will be outfitted with artificial intelligence by 2020. Oh bloody hell, just invent something else! I work in an "AI" lab, and I just don't want any more "smart devices". I'd much prefer something that solves a problem I actually have, like for instance the godawful commute times involved in getting around here.
- maxxxxx 8y agoThe AI will serve you ads for audiobooks you can listen to during the commute. That's something, isn't it?
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- fromthestart 8y agoActually, I've thought of this before. Imagine a world where continuously learning AI is commonplace, and leads to clearly divergent performance of objects. Suddenly, attachment to intimate objects becomes much more reasonable, when you can train your possessions and have them compete - even selling the neural nets for profit, if corps allow us to own them. I feel like it would add a certain degree of magic to the world of things. The same way people grow fond of cars, guns, tools, and the like, except in this case there may be something to the percieved superiority! Imagine self learning toys and the games they could be taught to play.
- mosiuerbarso 8y agoWe'll end up with toasters like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec "But i'm a toaster. It is my raison d'être. I toast, therefore I am!"
- WheelsAtLarge 8y agoI just got a google mini and I've had an echo for a few years now. Google and Amazon have and are building them with a simulated personality. I find it strange that I even feel that a hunk of plastic and metal has a personality.