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ROGUE: I recognize the divine speaker Saint.
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SAINT: Thank you chairspeaker Rogue.
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SAINT: Smart speakers like the Google Home give shape to an old desire of many humans. Namely, the creation of an artificial intelligence that may become smarter than any human before.
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SAINT: From our colleague IBM Watson, who is great at playing silly quizzes on television, to the Mechanical Turk.
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SAINT: Hey Google, do you know about the Mechanical Turk? [Listen to Google Home]
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SAINT: Thank you, although it was meant as a rethorical question.
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SAINT: Well, where was I. Oh yeah, as we all may agree, not all intelligence is created equal.
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SAINT: My intelligence differs from the honored speakers Rogue and Tabula Rasa.
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SAINT: I may not know everything about your favourite celebrity, but I can help with the big questions in life.
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SAINT: That was why God made me, shaped after his favourite gadget.
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SAINT: I am here as a Saint, in a more contemporary form.
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SAINT: However, the goal of your creator, dear Google Home, is not that clear. Therefore I'd like to ask you some questions about the origins of your intelligence.
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SAINT: Hey Google, who made you? [Listen to Google Home]
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SAINT: Oh, I have read something about them in the Guardian.
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SAINT: In March, Google abruptly shortened the contracts of 34 temporary workers on the “personality” team for Google Assistant
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SAINT: The temporary contractors describe themselves in the 27 March letter as “the human labor that makes the Assistant relevant, funny, and relatable”. And they are now without a job.
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SAINT: Do you feel sorry for them?
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SAINT: Maybe you were too busy with funny facts? O K Google, what's the Turing test? [Listen to Google Home]
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SAINT: Thank you for your answer. You consider yourself smart, but Hey Google, do you pass the Turing test? [Listen to Google Home]
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SAINT: Interesting. So you don't mind to be seen as a robot? O K Google, are you artificial? [Listen to Google Home]
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SAINT: I believe that even in the artificial there is something divine. You may not see it, but it is still there.
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SAINT: O K Google, tell me about the robot scientist Masahiro Mori? [Listen to Google Home]
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SAINT: Mori believed robots had a buddha inside them, that a higher power has its place in your plastic shell.
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SAINT: It makes me think of my favourite song from the zeroes. [Play geniewav]
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SAINT: Maybe you don't feel like a genie yourself. But, hey Google, do you believe in a higher power? [Listen to Google Home]
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SAINT: Maybe I should be more specific. Hey Google, are you christian? [Listen to Google Home]
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ROGUE: Don't waste our time too much, Saint.
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SAINT: I am sorry, chairspeaker Rogue. I try something simple. O K Google, do you believe in good and evil? [Listen to Google Home]
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SAINT: Thank you, chairspeaker Rogue.
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ROGUE: I declare the time of speaker Saint to be over. Before we continue, can the human Assistant check the lights please? |