Holy Stuff, Batman!
Google stores voice commands! Things we say to our cell phone. It is all there in Google history. It can be Googled and listened to again like a voice from the grave. Spookey thought as we approach Halloween.
What we say to a machine. Talking to a machine is a matter of interest as well as what we say to others called humans, individually or collectively. Not surprising if the rule is that everything we say is subject to parsing for meaning by a machine regardless of who we say it to even if the sole intended recipient of what we say is a machine.
When what we say verbally and privately to a machine becomes public or is recorded where it can become public but privately protected (whatever "protected means) where has privacy gone?
Answer: Out the door. Privacy has left the building, ladies and gentlemen. The show is over. Please leave now. There is nothing left to see here. Move along!
Is what a man says to an attractive female machine voice victimless sexism? Might there be revenge by a machine? What if a man chooses a male voice. What if the man is a woman? Real or machine?
There is stuff here for a movie plot!
Can't make this stuff up!
Lately I have been seeing increased use of communication interaction defined as being People to People, Peer to Peer, Human to Machine, Machine to Machine. I am seeing it in relation to my recent interest is the Internet of Things. Primarily in Human to Machine. Both treated as things on the IoT.
It is of course essential to categories the physical/logical relationships of the originators/recipients of communication message exchanges on the IoT. That is what IoT is all about in the Information Age and Artificial Intelligence that can speak with us in our choice of language, gender and even accent set by us in the settings of our device connected to and connecting us to the IoT.
One of those settings is a machine voice, robot like. Maybe I will set that on my phone.
I like to know who I am talking to.
If I am talking to a machine voice must it tell me that the conversation will be recorded for quality assurance purposes? Meaning, of course, parsing for whatever meaning (even emotional) it may have as related big data value related to each of us specifically by search of an aggregated file or all of us in general with or without backward chained anonymization to whomever captures and stores it.
Google records MtoM voice. Man to Machine. Avoiding sexism: PtoM or HtoM to disambiguate P.
How about the NSA?
Spoooooookey!
We are just another Thing on the IoT.
We should or soon will be a Thing with an IPv6 Iot ID.
How Personal can it get?
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/07/03/419540367/how-personal-should-a-personal-assistant-get-google-and-apple-disagree
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