This is a popular strategy in Silicon Valley's lifehack-obsessed community (as you could tell from audience applause), but they do not give adequate thought to how sterile a world this is to live in, or that people find automated interactions degrading, for good reason
-
-
Show this thread
-
There is such a paucity of vision in Google's stunted view of the world as a convenience store for the gifted, but that doesn't stop them from rolling out everything at scale in 127 countries, with no oversight or accountability. They're giant kids and the world is their sandbox
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Based on
@doctorow, I'm pretty sure Google Duplex gets us to here: https://www.amazon.com/Maelstrom-Rifters-Trilogy-Book-2-ebook/dp/B004LB4SH0 … (Congrats to Peter Watts for managing to avoid Twitter.) -
(The relevant Doctorow piece: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/07/backpropagator.html …)
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
We need to start thinking some "voice captchas" to check if the caller is a robot or not.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Imagine a world where you are robo-called by machine voices 24/7 - until you hire your own AI secretary. The same company sells both the attack service and the defense.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
about this, but a theme in today's Google demo was mechanizing interactions with real people to make one's own life more convenient. Auto-complete entire sentences in email, robot voice calls to small businesses, Google Home training your kid to say please