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from the find-me-some-coconuts-to-buy-and-play-horsey-with dept.
I would love to have a house/AI to keep me organized: to tell me when an important date is coming/arrived; remind me of things i have to do (like the laundry) or of really important things like "you have a family.... go pay attention to them".
But at what cost will that come.
Amazon's Alexa AI (as well as all the other personal assistants being developed) is, seemingly, probably moving from a speaker to the room/house you are standing in. This will eventually help you in life, but will also feed the 'machine' of the corporation developing it.
What would it take to create an open source AI to help me/you with daily life? Would you like to have it come from an RMS point of view, or would a less 'commercial', almost open source alternative be acceptable?
Could you really be accepting of something that coordinates your life and helps you out with occasional advertisements and up-stream collection of 'some' data?
From the referenced article:
While some predict mass unemployment or all-out war between humans and artificial intelligence, others foresee a less bleak future. Professor Manuela Veloso, head of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, envisions a future in which humans and intelligent systems are inseparable, bound together in a continual exchange of information and goals that she calls "symbiotic autonomy." In Veloso's future, it will be hard to distinguish human agency from automated assistance — but neither people nor software will be much use without the other.
[Ed: TFA also includes an interview with Professor Veloso, which provides more detail and discussion]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JNCF on Wednesday November 16 2016, @04:10PM
Well, we know that people who have been asked to make small decisions experience a sort of fatigue when faced with other future decisions. So if we could outsource our petty decision making tasks, that would be ideal since it would allow us to focus on decisions we care about -- not whether to take out the trash or do the laundry first. Schedules are great, but fail to account for the complexities of real life. I definitely see a place for a personal AI to help manage the little details of life, just so that I can be focusing on other things. I don't need it, but I would like it. I'm gonna hold out for the open source version.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:44PM
That's it. I've had enough. Society has now degraded to where we need a very expensive machine to do our laundry for us, because we're too fat and lazy to do it, plus a "digital assistant" to talk to and remind us to do these mundane tasks. I don't like this new world. I quit the internet, and life.