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"plus de 1,7 million de Français ont acquis une enceinte à commande vocale, selon une étude Médiamétrie réalisée en décembre 2018."

"hen you sign up to use Alexa, you agree to be responsible for any purchases made on the device by you, your resident parrot, a mischievous friend or relative, or an unwelcome burglar. It doesn't matter whether you intended the purchase or not."

"Nadella [le patron de microsoft] considère qu'à long terme, le choix de l'assistant vocal n'aura plus d'importance. Il deviendrait une simple porte d'entrée pour lancer des logiciels de toutes sortes."

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"But as we move into a world where everyone will be talking to Google, Siri or Alexa, we will have to rethink what the office is for. Do we want it to be a place of real human-to-human interaction, or will it become something of a call centre, in which everyone is whispering to their voice assistant through Madonna-style mics? "

"Duplex - Google's artificially intelligent chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone - has expanded from a "set of trusted tester users" earlier this year to a "small group" of Google Pixel phone owners, who can now use Duplex via the Google Assistant to secure restaurant reservations in "select cities." [...] Notice that Duplex begins the conversation by saying "Hi, I'm calling to make a reservation for a client. I'm calling from Google, so the call may be recorded." Google received a ton of criticism after its initial Duplex demo in May - many were not amused that Google Assistant mimicked a human so well. In June, the company promised that Google Assistant using Duplex would first introduce itself."

[...] "Le faux a-t-il envahi notre quotidien ? A voir l'étonnant Affordable Solution for Better Living, on est bien forcés de se poser la question. Cette performance dansée décrit en trois tableaux les tribulations d'un homme moderne dans son intérieur où tout est artificiel : du mobilier (imitation bois) à son enveloppe corporelle (une combinaison intégrale Zentaï), en passant par ses pensées (dictées par un assistant vocal)." "On est aussi frappé par la pâte sonore de ce spectacle, cette voix omnisciente qui dirige le personnage et ces extraits de bruits de la nature… S.M. : Nous nous sommes basés sur les tutoriels de remise en forme, qui soutiennent artificiellement le bien-être de l'homme moderne. C'est une sorte de logiciel Siri (assistant vocal), une présence maternelle, qui guide l'homme dans les étapes de sa construction, en parallèle de la construction du meuble. Mais même si cette voix est douce et qu'elle le motive, elle le surveille en permanence."

"Women Reclaiming AI (WRAI) is an expanding activist artwork, presented as a feminist AI voice assistant, programmed through participatory workshops by a growing community of self-identifying women. Through creating a platform for collective writing and editing, the project co-creates an AI that challenges prescribed gender roles. It is a response to the pervasive depiction of AI voice assistants gendered as women, subordinate and serving. Designed by development teams which lack diversity, these systems are embedded with unrepresentative world views and stereotype in ways that reinforce traditional gender roles. WRAI aims to reclaim female voices in the development of future AI systems by empowering self-identifying women to harness conversational AI as a medium for protest. This project is created by artists-technologists Coral Manton and Birgitte Aga in collaboration with an ever evolving community of self-identifying women."

"At its annual developer conference in Mountain View, Google boasted of shrinking its speech recognition software to 1/25th of its prior size. CEO Sundar Pichai called that a "milestone" because it means software that traditionally lives in Google's cloud servers can be installed in Pixel smartphones Google will launch later this year, allowing the devices to respond to a person's voice much more quickly." "Werner Goertz, a research director at Gartner, calls the shift to on-device speech recognition "game changing" and potentially a significant challenge to Apple's and Amazon's more conventional speech systems. "Latency has always been an issue," he said, and most users have experienced the problem." "Processing speech on-device instead of transmitting it to the cloud can also be more private than the conventional model-although in some cases the transcribed text will be sent to Google anyway. Pichai and other executives made privacy a theme of Tuesday's event, gently trying to neutralize Google's reputation for data-slurping. The company showcased redesigned privacy settings, and a new "incognito mode" for Google Maps that pauses the service's default tracking of a device's movements."

""Grâce à l'assistance vocale, les techniciens de production peuvent se concentrer sur leurs gestes et se libérer des notices et des modèles techniques", explique André Joly, co-fondateur de la société Simsoft Industry" ... "Les premiers projets développés 'sur mesure' pour des grands comptes nous permettent aujourd'hui de décliner Vogof par type de métiers, mais aussi d'élargir ses missions au-delà de l'assistance à la production, pour de la maintenance d'équipements ou de la formation professionnelle"

"En avril dernier, nous vous avions déjà parlé du cas d'Amazon, qui emploie une cohorte d'humains bien vivants pour écouter des conversations captées par Alexa. D'après le média flamand VRT News relayé par BFMTV, la firme de Mountain View s'adonneraient aux mêmes pratiques."

Etude Roland Berger

"With "Project Alias," Bjørn Karmann and Tore Knudsen of Denmark demonstrated a simple yet effective way to take back control over our own private sphere, which earned them the STARTS Prize of the European Commission." "None of us had any smart home devices for a long time, and we were certainly not planning to buy one either. But after Bjørn won Google's AI Experiment Challenge back in 2017 he got a Google Home smart device as a gift from the I/O event. Despite the lack of excitement, Bjørn brought it home for a trial period. It did not take long before frustrations started to build up, and empathy towards the uncanny voice disappeared. Every interaction and behavioral pattern felt predetermined. He felt like a passive consumer who just wanted to give the poor assistant a name that was not the company's brand. And then there was the microphone. A direct link to the servers at Google that always was on and ready to be triggered by your command. So the idea of hacking it started to arise. But as makers, we had to face the sad truth that it was yet another device with a completely closed system. To hack it, we would have to get creative. This is when the idea of a "man-in-the-middle-attack" started. A device that we would trust and which has no connection to the internet. Whose job is to take control of the other assistant and whose name it would deserve."

> de la voix à la notification écrite

"You can schedule assigned reminders by saying: "Hey Google, remind Jamal to take out the trash at 8 p.m." or "Hey Google, remind Sophie she's a great kid tomorrow at 5 p.m.""

Quand l'AV choisit le premier numéro de téléphone référencé sans autre critère de sélection...

L'éducation doit-elle passer par les AV ? Quid de la politesse (cela rend aux problèmes liés aux insultes sexistes) ? L'article est peu intéressant mais soulève au moins la question.