or Amazon's Echo...

Post #409,174 by dmcarls 4/6/16 10:40:00 AM 4/6/16 10:40:00 AM Reply	or Amazon's Echo... [...] "Always getting smarter and adding new features and skills--over 100 added since launch, including Domino's and Uber" [...] http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-SK705DI-Echo/dp/B00X4WHP5E/ref=zg_bs_electronics_4 "When you want to use Echo, simply say the wake word, "Alexa," and Echo lights up and streams audio to the cloud, where the Alexa Voice Service is leveraged to recognize and respond to your request instantly." (Keep in mind, there is no cloud, just someone else's computer. Not yours)
Post #409,236 by Ashton 4/8/16 3:43:20 PM 4/8/16 3:43:20 PM Reply	Well she's not as bright as HAL9000, but apparently does not have the schizophrenia-option as did HAL. Am waiting for HAL; for one thing, I need-Not the lists of pop-music, but could be amused-while-informed re. the bios of the music Immortals, or anecdotes re origins of various lieder, and like that. (I do hope to pass ..on the Over-mechanized 'A House is.. (not a Home)' Even if you soon CAN: pick your rhythm--Take Five?--and flash all in-house lites+colours ... just for the halibut.) Curmudgeonly, Modrin 'civil'ization still seems largely about Boyz [and their Toyz]
Post #409,239 by drook 4/8/16 4:13:58 PM 4/8/16 4:13:58 PM Reply	Have you seen Black Mirror? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror) The second part applies here. -- Drew
Post #409,291 by Ashton 4/11/16 8:59:56 AM 4/11/16 8:59:56 AM Reply	No. But I can see that some folk Would-if-they-Could ... attempt to buy/sell? make-happen just such a Boolean-simplifid blueprint for a homo-sap .. ... .... (I believe this is the as-yet-unTtled, "fallacy of imagining an algorithm for Every. Thing.") Then again, maybe the authors of above were just having us all On ... Consciousness on a Corporate Chip™ ?!? {{shudder}}
Post #409,309 by dmcarls 4/11/16 10:04:56 PM 4/11/16 10:04:56 PM Reply	Be careful ! (from 65 yrs ago) "The Veldt" is a short story written by American author Ray Bradbury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_%28short_story%29 "The Hadley family lives in an automated house called "The Happylife Home," filled with machines that do everything for them from cooking meals, to clothing them, to rocking them to sleep." [...] "The psychologist, David McClean, suggests they turn off the house, move to the country, and learn to be more self-sufficient."
Post #409,312 by Ashton 4/12/16 2:26:36 AM 4/12/16 2:26:36 AM Reply	I remember The Veldt :-/ (With kids like that, who needs Zyklon-B?)

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