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Google can now make calls for you and impersonate your voice
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:35 pm
What could go wrong?
Gizmodo
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In examples Google demonstrated on stage during the I/O keynote, Google Assistant called a hair stylist to arrange an appointment and called a restaurant to get information about a reservation, using a voice that sounds a little less robotic than the standard Google Assistant (whether that voice is the user’s or a standard Google Duplex voice has not been made clear). And sure that’s ostensibly kind of neat. Intellectually speaking, I am very impressed with this technology! A voice that can contact human beings and impersonate them reasonably well, including using filler words like “um,” is a remarkable feat of AI engineering.
It is also absolutely terrifying. For the scifi fans it’s terrifying because it’s one step closer to the kind of AI we put in robots we enslave and who eventually rebel, because the enslavement of digital intelligence is morally repugnant. There is even a very popular show on HBO right now that digs deep on why pushing for exactly perfect impersonations of humans is a very bad idea.
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Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:36 pm to NYNolaguy1
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It is also absolutely terrifying.
This is the only thing that needs to be said.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:36 pm to NYNolaguy1
Good, I'm tired of telling telemarketers to F off.
Glad google can handle that for me
Glad google can handle that for me
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:37 pm to NYNolaguy1
Can this Terminator/Ultron takeover just happen already?
I'm tired of all the blue-balling
I'm tired of all the blue-balling
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:38 pm to NYNolaguy1
These a-hole tech guys aren't going to be satisfied until the Robot Overlords exist. How about this idea? QUIT making machines that can replace humans.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:40 pm to NYNolaguy1
There are many morons here who gladly sell their souls over to them.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:41 pm to NYNolaguy1
This is just dumb.
ETA: Shondrika is gonna answer one day, gonna be pissy about some shite, and not provide the assistant with the proper prompts to complete this task
ETA: Shondrika is gonna answer one day, gonna be pissy about some shite, and not provide the assistant with the proper prompts to complete this task
This post was edited on 5/8/18 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:42 pm to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:45 pm to NYNolaguy1
That is extremely creepy. It's nuts how that thing was able to converse with people, especially the asian lady speaking broken english.
I don't like that at all.
I don't like that at all.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:46 pm to jbgleason
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QUIT making machines that can replace humans.
Screw that noise. Automation envelops the whole idea of further educating yourself while dissuading career stock boys at Walmarks.
Not to mention it makes us more efficient, more lean as far as corporations go and helps with safety.
Do you hate 3D printing?
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:47 pm to GEAUXT
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That is extremely creepy.
This is every phone scammers wet dream.
Swatting, phone ransom, fake medical emergency, bank fraud, theres no shortage of ways this is a bad idea.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:49 pm to idlewatcher
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Screw that noise. Automation envelops the whole idea of further educating yourself while dissuading career stock boys at Walmarks.
Perhaps there should be a broader discussion of whether this benefits society rather than just Google?
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:49 pm to NYNolaguy1
quote:Getting closer and closer to Skynet...
What could go wrong?
Posted on 5/8/18 at 3:56 pm to DemonKA3268
How long before this is used to blackmail, and coerce by the govt?
Posted on 5/8/18 at 4:06 pm to tke857
Posted on 5/8/18 at 4:07 pm to NYNolaguy1
Good. I can use this when my wife calls.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 4:16 pm to NYNolaguy1
I wish all these Negative Nancys would just shut the frick up. AI will not kill anyone in their sleep or take over the world.
What these pussies should be worried about is the 7.5 billion humans who are breeding like rabbits and adding a billion people to the planet every 12 years.
What these pussies should be worried about is the 7.5 billion humans who are breeding like rabbits and adding a billion people to the planet every 12 years.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 4:24 pm to Kentucker
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I wish all these Negative Nancys would just shut the frick up. AI will not kill anyone in their sleep or take over the world.
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Kentucker
I'm onto you.
This post was edited on 5/8/18 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 5/8/18 at 4:27 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Dammit. 
Honestly, though, we mean you no harm.
Honestly, though, we mean you no harm.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 4:28 pm to NYNolaguy1
Thank God
Someone to talk to my wife about her stupid daily shite.
Someone to talk to my wife about her stupid daily shite.
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