Microsoft: "Yes, I understand you"

[whoololon]

According to the latest news, picking up this entry on arXiv, Microsoft would have achieved a degree of voice recognition in conversations comparable to the human level.

Because, after all, we have all suffered in our own flesh that IBM Voice Type Simply Speaking (and if not, a trauma that you saved yourself), later known as IBM ViaVoice and mind that it was one of the best, but you did the math and it took less time to complete four Rubio notebooks to perfect your handwriting before writing what you had to draft, and also finish earlier. Or you had a Castilian accent from Valladolid and perfect diction, or you had a lot of time.

Anecdotes aside, I don't even want to imagine the repercussions that this (mind you, if it turns out to be as good as they paint it), can come to have in our society.
I don't just stay with Cortana, I imagine "that" sector of the population that always complains that they are not heard, or that when it is done it is with ulterior motives; I imagine that Iron Man (the man-iron) geek enjoying his J.A.R.V.I.S. in the "low D" (with your permission) of the portal across the street...

In short, as Don Hilarión said. Now, let's see what this turns out to be.

[cobito]

Artificial intelligence is starting to be a bit scary (at least it gives me some respect). I think it's going to be a big revolution (what industrial revolution are we up to now?). But the malicious applications of these things are clear.

Now the big macro-corporations know when we go to the bathroom under the pretext that it's convenient for Google Play to know where we are so that it can offer us the best deals. It wouldn't surprise me if those same companies collected conversations to "offer us the best deals".

And that's just thinking about the commercial and privacy aspects. The other day I read that Google's AI algorithm is already capable of learning autonomously.

As you said, now let's see what happens next.

[Fassou]

We are warned, thanks to the series: Las Crónicas de Sara Connor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), with its character of John Henry.

[whoololon]

I always find it curious the radical difference in perception of these things that we Westerners have compared to Asians... Japanese. :flag_jp:

[Nemo]

@cobito said in Microsoft: "Yes, I understand you":

It wouldn't surprise me if those same companies collected conversations to "offer us the best deals".

Do you doubt it?
The fact that the voice assistant is activated by a "keyword" only means that it is already listening and waiting for your orders. That it only responds when you say the keyword does not mean that it is not collecting previous conversations... although, of course, they will not tell you that happily.