Tech giants are in a race to see who can build the most powerful voice-activated assistant, but there’s a side effect that we haven’t considered: Kids who grow up asking Amazon’s Alexa questions or summoning Siri might lose some social skills. What if artificial intelligence changes the way we talk?
Experts in robotics, machine learning, and AI descended on Austin for South by Southwest this week, and the biggest questions were lifted straight from the film Her. Will AI become sentient? Is it changing the way we interact with each other? Will kids think they can order around their friends the same way they tell Alexa to tell them a joke? Spoiler alert: It’s way too soon to tell.
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