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He's been saying this for about 2 years now. This cusp is lasting a really long time.
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Electric companies after Microsoft announced AI PC.
Yikes.
I am already uncomfortable when my mom talks with her phone to search Google. But hey, she is 83 years old and her health is declining. Maybe she does not need so much privacy any more.
But here is a sad story: I have two friends, a couple. Both are automation engineers. They could not have kids, which was their life dream. So instead, they re-purposed their energy and built their dream house. A beautiful house. And, of course, with a lot of automation and logic programmed by them. Shutters which open in the morning and close when it is stormy. A shower which plays the right morning radio program. Extra settings for when parents-in-law visit.
But what makes me uncomfortable is voice control by speech recognition. All that cortana/siri stuff. For everything, even switching on the light. I don't like that when I visit people. For me, it is like somebody is always listening, even to stuff that is meant only for my friends ears.
I have not told them, but I don't like that house.
They don't listen all the time, only when you say "Hey Cortana / Hey Siri". But in order to hear that command, they probably have to listen all the time...
ehm.
And I would like MS to fuck off. I’ll even ask nicely.
Why would you ever want to talk to your computer beyond the obvious "oh for fucksake, now what" and "shit, that shouldn't happen"?
ironically im sorta hoping to see this with linux were even installation uses a small local chatbot that guides the installation and then the os is chatbot centric where one of the things you do as you use is allow it to use additional resources to get more capability.
I already have a computer I can talk to. I call it a useless sack of shit every day.