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Industrial revolutions has happened few times in the past, and every time it occurs, we change our world to adopt it. I can't help but wonder, what the world w

by nirui 5y ago

Industrial revolutions has happened few times in the past, and every time it occurs, we change our world to adopt it. I can't help but wonder, what the world would look like if services in the future will be provided primarily by AIs. How do we adopt them? Do we have to invent a "New Speech" just to make AI understand us better so we can live a easier life? "Question: Have you consumed your food today?", "Answer: I have consumed my food today." Or a more subtle example: "Hi! Welcome to ___. What do you want to eat today?", "I want to eat item one, fifty-six, eighty-seven and ninety-one", "Do you want to eat item one, fifty-six, eighty-seven and ninety-one?", "Yes", "Please make a seat. The food will come right away!" (all without making any Hmm or Err noise)

chii 5y ago
> "Hi! Welcome to ___. What do you want to eat today?", "I want to eat item one, fifty-six, eighty-seven and ninety-one", "Do you want to eat item one, fifty-six, eighty-seven and ninety-one?", "Yes", "Please make a seat. The food will come right away!" (all without making any Hmm or Err noise) this already happens today, with human servers. The menu items are numbered, and you tell them the number instead of the name of the dish.
- bob1029 5y ago
  And then in some places they hand you another number - a pooled session identifier - to take to your table. Then you are expected to respond to events broadcast regarding this number if the food fails to reach the destination automatically.
jcims 5y ago
We're going to resurrect the transatlantic accent. I already have started add a hard 'ng' on 'going to' because my phone keeps abbreviating it to 'gonna'.
- guerrilla 5y ago
  Yeah that's probably not goinv to work for India and the rest of the anglosphere.
  - iamtedd 5y ago
    > goinv to Did you succumb to the exact same problem GP comment described?
  - Karsteski 5y ago
    Yea, I'm Trinidadian, and even though my accent has changed significantly from living in Canada for 7 years, people and especially voice recognition get confused by some of my speech patterns. Example is that people always hear 50 when I say 30, because of how I pounce the "y". Anything ending in "th" or "ing" gets confused a lot by people who don't know me. It's kinda funny to keep track of :)
- darkwater 5y ago
  That would actually be cool also for non-native English speakers :)
eloisius 5y ago
A new vernacular to interface with tools that never reveal the actual state of a system under their control, and forbid you to directly influence it. You are granted the privilege to express your limited desires, from which the system will "learn" your preferences. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a man repeating "Hey Thermostat! Can you cool it down in here a little?" over and over–forever.
ajmurmann 5y ago
Blockchain Chicken Farm gives an interesting angle on this. Part of the book describes a AI controlled pig farm. For the outcome to be good, as many variables as possible have to be removed from the pigs' life. For example total isolation from the outside world. Otherwise there is too much for the AI to account for and the training set also needs to increase. What does that mean for our lifes as AI gets control over more aspects? What variables can be removed?
Izkata 5y ago
> Do we have to invent a "New Speech" just to make AI understand us better so we can live a easier life? It's already happened. Have you ever seen an a grandparent unfamiliar with new tech talk to Alexa? There's a ton of them on Youtube.

by nirui 5y ago

chii 5y ago

> "Hi! Welcome to ___. What do you want to eat today?", "I want to eat item one, fifty-six, eighty-seven and ninety-one", "Do you want to eat item one, fifty-six, eighty-seven and ninety-one?", "Yes", "Please make a seat. The food will come right away!" (all without making any Hmm or Err noise) this already happens today, with human servers. The menu items are numbered, and you tell them the number instead of the name of the dish.

bob1029 5y ago
And then in some places they hand you another number - a pooled session identifier - to take to your table. Then you are expected to respond to events broadcast regarding this number if the food fails to reach the destination automatically.

jcims 5y ago

We're going to resurrect the transatlantic accent. I already have started add a hard 'ng' on 'going to' because my phone keeps abbreviating it to 'gonna'.

guerrilla 5y ago
Yeah that's probably not goinv to work for India and the rest of the anglosphere.
- iamtedd 5y ago
  > goinv to Did you succumb to the exact same problem GP comment described?
- Karsteski 5y ago
  Yea, I'm Trinidadian, and even though my accent has changed significantly from living in Canada for 7 years, people and especially voice recognition get confused by some of my speech patterns. Example is that people always hear 50 when I say 30, because of how I pounce the "y". Anything ending in "th" or "ing" gets confused a lot by people who don't know me. It's kinda funny to keep track of :)
darkwater 5y ago
That would actually be cool also for non-native English speakers :)

eloisius 5y ago

A new vernacular to interface with tools that never reveal the actual state of a system under their control, and forbid you to directly influence it. You are granted the privilege to express your limited desires, from which the system will "learn" your preferences. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a man repeating "Hey Thermostat! Can you cool it down in here a little?" over and over–forever.

ajmurmann 5y ago

Blockchain Chicken Farm gives an interesting angle on this. Part of the book describes a AI controlled pig farm. For the outcome to be good, as many variables as possible have to be removed from the pigs' life. For example total isolation from the outside world. Otherwise there is too much for the AI to account for and the training set also needs to increase. What does that mean for our lifes as AI gets control over more aspects? What variables can be removed?

Izkata 5y ago

> Do we have to invent a "New Speech" just to make AI understand us better so we can live a easier life? It's already happened. Have you ever seen an a grandparent unfamiliar with new tech talk to Alexa? There's a ton of them on Youtube.