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

[Tom Worthington]

On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 23:56 +0000, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> A new AI device optimized for empathy ...

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got 
it made." As Jean Giraudoux, or George Burns, perhaps said. ;-)

> The problem with all these things is very simple: They are not self-
> contained. ...

ELIZA did a good job of apparently listening to our problems in the 
1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Sadly, it doesn't take a supercomputer to emulate a sympathetic 
listener, and could be done entirely on a smart phone. But that would be 
of little value to corporations wanting to monitor us, so they can sell 
us stuff.


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Tom Worthington, http://www.tomw.net.au