[LINK] New AI device optimized for empathy to solve senior isolation?

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 23:56 +0000, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> A new AI device optimized for empathy will either solve the problem
> of senior isolation or fling us into a dystopic abyss

The problem with all these things is very simple: They are not self-
contained. They *look* self-contained, they are typically marketed *as
if* they were self-contained, but when you talk to ElliQ (or Siri, or
Cortana, or Alexa, or...), you are not talking to it and it alone; you
are talking to a vast network of computers and databases, and
indirectly to the people operating those things.

Your every interaction - and in fact anything you do or say in the
vicinity of such a device - is supplied to the vendor to do whatever
they like with.

I would *love* to have an intelligent, adaptive robot companion! How
cool would that be? But I just can't imagine getting pally with what
amounts to a speaker, microphone and camera in a box, knowing that it
is sharing everything I do or say with people I do not know and whose
motives I cannot even guess at.

Put the smarts IN the robot, and I'm in. Until then, I'm very much
*out*.

Regards, K.

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