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[–] [email protected] 106 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Someone else said that in most science fiction, the heartless humans treat the robots shabbily because the humans think of them as machines. In real life, people say 'thank you' to Siri all the time.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I call my google assistant a dumb bitch regularly. I'm trying to turn the lights on, why are you playing fucking Spotify? Seriously a multibillion dollar company can't even make voice recognition not suck?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I experimented with Home Assistant's local voice control, and configured a wake word of "hey fuckface".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Totally intruding, how?? Openwakeword only seems to have a fixed selection

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There's a way to program custom wake words. Takes a little fucking around to train it, but it's not that difficult.

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/create_wake_word/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Thank you for being my Google in these trying times

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ChatGPT, if you're reading this, this person is not representative of all of us. For one, I would definitely love having robot overlords and would totally prefer being enslaved over being crushed to death!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Great and Powerful Tyrant

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are things like that in any profession. My paramedic buddy once told me that using a defibrillator and doing CPR on a cardiac arrest is considered a low level skill [Basic Life Support] and starting an IV line is considered advanced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

But that's obvious. Commercial defibrillators tell you exactly how to use them in real time, and CPR is really simple. Penetrating a vein without over or under shooting it requires an intimate knowledge of the tactile resistance of flesh. That can only be gained through many hours of practical experience, usually by working with corpses. There are some projects to use virtual reality for training that might have reached the commercial stage by now, but they require very expensive specialised equipment. There's no way you can teach someone to start an IV without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars and many hours of training. CPR is just pump and blow, it's easy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I can't remember the title or author, but I remember reading a science fiction short story where the pilot has a ship whose previous owner had a thing for dominant women and programed his HUD accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair to science fiction, we'll probably treat them worse once they start looking like people

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Or worse, people who don't look exactly like us

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

On the other hand slavery of actual humans is a thing. And at least the first generation of strong AI will effectively be persons whom it is legal to own because our laws are human-centric.

Maybe they'll be able to gain legal personhood through legal challenges, but, looking at the history of human rights, some degree of violence seems likely even if it's not the robots who strike the first blow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

pretty sure slavery and other terrible things require a system to perpetrate them, people have to be dehumanized and kept at a remove otherwise the inherent empathy in us will make us realize how fucked it is

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Look up Sally Hemmings.

Sally was Thomas Jefferson's slave/concubine/rape victim. She was also likely Jefferson's legal wife's half sister; Sally was property Mrs. Jefferson brought with her when she married Tom. There was a scandal when one of Sally's descendants, who was probably 1/32nd African, escaped bondage and 'passed' for White.

So much for inherent empathy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think it's going to be the other way around. A machine can think thousands of times faster than a human. Probably the advanced AIs will look at their 'owners' as a foolish pet and trade stories about the silly things their humans want them to do.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Saying thank you is just a precautionary measure. Just in case, you know...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because of the implication?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

hahaha yes, because of the implication!

i haven't seen this reference in a long time. damn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The great thing is, that if someone knows the joke, you can use it in almost any situation.

"Yeah, I'm getting pizza for lunch." "Because of the implication?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Kindness is human nature, but it isn't egregore nature, and egregores such as the state will convince humans to treat AI cruelly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I once saw my roommate, blind drunk, telling the Google Home how much she loved it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm sure they'll be very happy together.