Google Assistant making calls pretending to be human not only without disclosing that it's a bot, but adding "ummm" and "aaah" to deceive the human on the other end with the room cheering it... horrifying. Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing.
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Anyway, back to typing out all the (obvious!!! it's 2018!!!) points on why this is such a bad idea at so many levels. Still flabbergasted that basic dynamics of deploying stuff like that at scale just isn't thought through... IT IS 2018.
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"It's just a demo" people aren't getting the full scale of problems. Also Google putting a bot identifier at the beginning of call doesn't solve the many problems.https://twitter.com/getaclue_1/status/994918625906700289 …
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I think people may under estimate how profound a change it will be when you can't tell whether it's a human or not. There will be congressional hearings when they do.
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Once bots pass the Turing test? Yeah, hearings for sure.
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This is supposed to be reassuring?
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I hear what you're saying and you're right. But I also haven't gotten a haircut in several months because I don't want to call. So the demo spoke to my soul a bit.
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I thought exactly this. I find making phone calls very stressful, some days an insurmountable barrier. And ethically designed call bot - for e.g. making a restaurant reservation - could have been a great tool. Not this.
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I saved up pennies from my menial labor job as a tween—legally too young; I snuck in—to buy a computer to learn to code.
Anyway, writing longer.
if it is but they have a direction where they want to be (it will be easier for them to go through social and see what ppl want to actually use this for)
2) assuming that this will be used for just good is too good of you