HyperVoix

"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.""

"The AI sausage that voice technology relies on gets made in a feedback loop: The products perform well enough, voice data from customers are collected and used to improve the service, more people buy in to the product as it improves, and then more data are collected, improving it further. This loop requires a large customer base to sustain itself, which raises the question: Would as many people have bought these products if they knew that Romanian contract workers would listen to them, even if they didn't deliberately trigger their devices? " "In a recent article for The New Yorker on the risks of automation, the Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain coined the phrase intellectual debt: the phenomenon by which we readily accept new technology into our lives, only bothering to learn how it works after the fact. Essentially, buy first, ask questions later." "But privacy alone won't solve this. It's just as important for consumers to know how our devices work to begin with."

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.

Les AV et l'industrie du gadget... Pourtant "à chaud" je trouve ça très chouette comme utilisation.

"Mozilla a élaboré un guide pour vous aider à modifier vos paramètres de vie privée sur les assistants vocaux."

"Mais où est Djingo ? L'enceinte connectée d'Orange, codéveloppée avec l'opérateur allemand Deutsche Telekom, n'en finit plus de se faire attendre. " "Les équipes chargées de l'élaboration de l'enceinte se heurtent notamment à des difficultés techniques sur la mise en œuvre du système de reconnaissance vocale, développé en plusieurs langues et qui doit permettre aux futurs utilisateurs de piloter leur télévision (changement de chaînes, recherche de programmes...), d'écouter de la musique, de passer des appels ou de gérer les objets connectés de leur maison par la voix. « La période d'apprentissage, longue et complexe, de l'intelligence artificielle implique que nous prenions le temps nécessaire pour assurer un service de haute qualité », explique Orange."

"Brain-computer interfaces are developing faster than the policy debate around them It's time to talk about what's possible - and what shouldn't be"

"Leslie Miller's days are jam-packed. Being legally blind hasn't slowed down the 70-year-old resident of Casa de Mañana Retirement Community in La Jolla, California: she frequently gets lunches with friends, goes dancing, reads, and loves to listen to radio soap operas. Lately, she's gotten into guided meditation. None of that would be possible without Alexa." [...] "We want to meaningfully impact the lives of older adults," Davis Park, the project's executive director, says. Park notes that the voice assistants have been incredibly helpful for those, like Miller, with poor vision, and the project has experimented with using Alexa to help people with dementia know where they are if they are confused about their surroundings." Miller, like most of her fellow residents, finds her Echo Dot helpful for everyday tasks: What's the weather? Remind me of a lunch with so-and-so. What's the definition of this word?"