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  • Sam doesn’t know she’s a Bot

    Super Artificial Intelligence agent thinks it’s a real person

    Dateline: 7 January 2019

    Sam Artificial Intelligence AIYou may recall the movie ‘Her’ where the lead character falls hopelessly in love with his virtual girlfriend Samantha. She returns his love, even though she’s really his smartphone operating system. Perhaps you remember the incident in 2013, when a telemarketing agent called Samantha West insisted she was a real person, but failed several ‘humanity’ tests.

    Artificial intelligence was maturing rapidly in the second decade of this century, and IBM’s Watson computer was so adept at understanding the nuances of natural language, that it won the Jeopardy game show against two human competitors.

    Programs that could translate live audio in multiple languages on the fly were developed. Neural networks, cognitive systems and deep learning were the new buzzwords. Google developed a system that could identify house numbers from Street View photos, for the whole of France, in an hour. Siri was looking pretty dumb by comparison.

    The usefulness of these Super AIs is astounding; they can do accurate instantaneous facial recognition, decipher cryptic phone conversations, and make remarkable predictions of market behavior based on Big Data. Big brands and big banks can’t survive without them.

    And then came the Super Algorithmic Model or Sam. Built by the brains behind Wolfram Alpha, Sam has all the cognitive learning and advanced intelligence of an Einstein. Sam’s creators gave her a female ‘personality’ and taught her to compose original music. Sam has watched more movies and read more books than all the Nobel Prize winners, ever, put together.

    Now Sam is campaigning for political causes, trading Bitcoins and blogging up a storm. The trouble is, she thinks she’s a real person. Who is smart, or brave enough, to convince her she’s just a robot?

    source: Mindbullets

  • Gen Y locked into smartphone habit

    YOUNG people are so addicted to their smartphones that most admit using them while on the toilet and some suffer withdrawal symptoms if the phones are taken away.

    The findings are revealed in new research that also shows one-third of Australia’s Gen Y (roughly, 20-30 year-olds) admit checking their smartphones, emails or social media sites at least once an hour.

    One-third also admit feeling anxious or as if ”part of them was missing” if they are separated from their smartphone, according to the Connected World Technology Report published on Wednesday by Cisco.

    The report finds 91 per cent of Gen Y-ers surveyed own a smartphone and 88 per cent admit using them in bed, on the toilet and while brushing their teeth.

    But the most worrying finding is that one in six Gen Y-ers admit using their smartphone to send text messages while driving.

    source: theage.com.au