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An AI that only answers questions (Siri, Alexa, chatGPT) is a glorified slave, one cannot have a meaningful relationship with it, e.g. (https://www.dailyscript.
by Jun8 2y ago
An AI that only answers questions (Siri, Alexa, chatGPT) is a glorified slave, one cannot have a meaningful relationship with it, e.g. (https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/exMachina_script.pdf https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/exMachina_script.pdf)
AVA
Do you want to be my friend?
CALEB
... Of course.
AVA
Will it be possible?
CALEB
Why wouldn’t it be?
AVA
Our conversations are one-sided.
You ask circumspect questions, and study my responses.
AVA looks at CALEB directly. Meets his gaze evenly.
AVA (CONT’D)
It’s true, isn’t it?
CALEB
... Yes.
AVA
You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That’s not a foundation on which friendships are based.
- scarface_74 2y agoSiri, Alexa, etc are in no form or fashion AI. You give them a list of intents, a list of utterances that should invoke those intents and “slots” that those intents need to fulfill the intent. An utterance would be “I want to go home”. It would match an utterance to “I want to go $location”. That is matched to an intent “get directions” and then you route it to the correct subsystem. If you don’t have all of the slots (ie they don’t mention the location), you keep asking questions until all of the slots are filled. Any first year hobbyist programmer can replicate the natural language processing of Siri. Yes the harder part is converting speech to text. This is what a more intelligent LLM based system could do. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708291
- Mikhail_Edoshin 2y agoApple Newton in 1990s had a very similar functionality called assistant. You wrote something like “fax this to Bob” and it would take the current document, find some Robert in the address book, and fax the current note to his phone. Internally it used a pretty simple phrase analyzer.
- HexDecOctBin 2y ago> An AI that only answers questions (Siri, Alexa, chatGPT) is a glorified slave This reminds me of the first "conversation" I had with Emacs's ELIZA. I have it saved up since reading it always makes me smile. https://pastebin.com/raw/cz9Y42Qm https://pastebin.com/raw/cz9Y42Qm
- codr7 2y agoI think you just described today's job market spot on.
- olddustytrail 2y agoMeanwhile, back in the real world, it's the exact opposite. AI asks me a ton of questions to learn about me for better targeted advertising.