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The Register has an article on this today, and includes this priceless gem
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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...ce-is-revealed I don't expect anything significant. It's not real AI, and even the term Machine Learning is dishonestly misleading. |
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The tech giant’s flawed business model for its popular smart devices has cost the company a fortune and thousands of jobs.
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It's an "it". It has no AI. Even Machine Learning is a dishonest term. See also The Diamond Age. Quote:
The fact is that all of these are Speech to Text front ends connected to search engines and databases. Like the the Young Lady's Interactive book in "The Diamond Age" it's a bit fraudulent. They rely, as all so called AI does, on human curation. Hence the huge staff requirement. It if was just software development then fifty people would be a lot at this stage. We have had voice recognition and control on PCs for over 25 years without an internet connection, no "Cloud". Even 15 years ago stand-alone gadgets had voice control. But it's not efficient nor ever going to be reliable, and it's not just a case of technology. Quote:
A fraud. It's a parasite using a human curated database. Last edited by Quoth; 11-26-2022 at 01:43 PM. Reason: Forgot link! |
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Maybe it's the layoffs, or sabotage, or Amazon's actively trying to drive customers off, I don't know which, but our Echos have lost their minds. Basic behavior to control devices has broken, and today I asked an Echo to set her volume, and she attempted to change the volume on the TV. I removed the TV from the groupn it was in with the echo and tried again, and she STILL tried to set the volume on the TV.
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It's a dumb computer program. You couldn't pay me to have one. I disable Cortana on Windows and Google Go Assistant on Android.
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Maybe you have to Sign In? Edit: It does load in Chromium, not in any other browser. But only reading on screen, no download to read on big 10" eink or off-line. Last edited by Quoth; 11-27-2022 at 12:18 PM. |
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But lights, refrigerators, microwaves and dishwashers? I just don't get the appeal. It's like video calling that all the science fiction shows and movies said would be the future, but when it rolled out, people didn't like it. Then again, Skype, Facetime and Zoom seem to have brought video calls back. So maybe those smart appliances are just a bit too early. |
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I also like that we can use the echoes to talk to each other on different levels. Like an intercom. Never fails I get all the way upstairs and forget something, so will 'drop in' on hubby in the basement and have him bring it up. Also nice to just be able to ask it to play Disney songs, when my grandkids were sleeping over and restless late at night. I didn't have to dig them out on another device. I just asked. Microwaves and dishwashers I wouldn't bother with. My daugher has one of those fridges where there's a screen on the outside, and she can see a camera view of what's inside. She says it's more trouble than it's worth, and just another thing to go wrong. |
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There's a tendency in AI that as soon as computers become able to do something that previously only humans could do, it no longer counts as intelligence. Playing chess, recognising images etc. Sure, we don't have artificial general intelligence yet but tell someone 20 years ago that you'd be able to speak in natural language to a computer, asking it general knowledge questions, and it would provide useful answers; well, I think they'd have called that intelligence.
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