Forgotten Things
April 27, 2018 at 12:35 pm Leave a comment
http://nymag.com/selectall/smarthome/i-was-a-human-siri-french-virtual-assistant.html
Only ONE example. Isaac Aasimov, the “I, Robot” series. Virtual assistants abound–from “A” to “Z” [elazny]. In fact, I seem to remember one of the Vance novels even had one.
The point is that assistants basically exist to cut down on traffic. Unfortunately, that means a process of exclusion of data, and some of the data that is cut is meaningful. (“Infinite merely means one more than you can count.”)
At some point the process is irretrievably damaged. [Any process involving value.]
Entry filed under: A Few Words, social psychology. Tags: definition by exclusion, fatal errors, science fiction, virtual assistants.
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