Obligs:
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If I ever do use a digital assistant, I want it to be like Tony Stark’s Jarvis, but with Idris Elba’s accent.
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Oh, I don’t have Siri do any navigation for me! Definitely have no interest in a running dialogue. I have an auditory processing disorder, in any case. It’s just that so many people communicate via text these days, and this is how I can listen and answer back without taking my hand off the steering wheel or my eyes off the road. That’s the only use I have for Siri.
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I want a split personality digital assistant voiced by (Michael brain fart) David Tennant, not as the Doctor but as Crowley (or John Knox from Mary Queen of Scots), arguing for control with Freema Agyeman as Amanita Caplan from Sense8.
Oddly specific… I know…
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David Tennant, perhaps?
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I sometimes use the maps with navigation on, but at some point at least one phone ago, my son changed the voice to male and Irish - I call him Seamus. (I do not care for the default being a woman’s voice as I’m aware of the misogyny behind it.)
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OTOH - I don’t want to listen to men tell me what to do.
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I told my spouse about a short story I read where a woman talks about how digital assistants taught an entire generation of men to order women about and be rude to them. I can’t even remember the short story now, but it definitely affected the tone he uses with the digital speaker, particularly in front of our child.
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Can we hire those dogs that bark out the Jingle Bells song?
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I read an essay with a similar theme, about how the kids learn to ask for things without saying please or thank you. It reminded me of a passage in a Heinlein novel about the difference between AI that develops into a full human personality (this is ACI-fi) and AI that doesn’t is whether or not it’s treated with love.
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Foretaste of the things to come. Any agencies that gather data on climate, healthcare, education, income, unemployment, etc will become propaganda mouthpieces and nothing more, or else they will be silenced outright. And we have precious little in terms of backup. There is no private company actually doing this work, it’s all reliant on government. And that’s part of the goal, the diseducation of the population.
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It’s like they’ve given up on Earth, and they’re just hoovering up all the money they can to funnel it toward their own emigration to Mars. Don’t look up!
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