AMAZON ECHO: WE ARE ALL BEING GROOMED TO INTERACT WITH ROBOT ‘VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS’ USING AI
Those who own the voice-activated gadget, known colloquially as Alexa, after its female interlocutor, are prone to proselytizing “her” charms, applauding Alexa’s ability to call an Uber, order pizza or check a 10th-grader’s math homework. The company says more than 5,000 people a day profess their love for Alexa.
by Geoffrey Grider
NowTheEndBegins.com
December 13, 2016
AMAZON’S ECHO HAS MADE TANGIBLE THE PROMISE OF AN ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT PERSONAL VIRTUAL ASSISTANT IN EVERY HOME.
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJV)
“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4 (KJV)
EDITOR’S NOTE: It is amazing to me that, right here and now, we are living during the time of the greatest explosion of knowledge and technological advancement in human history. Revelation tells us that, in the time of Jacob’s trouble, the False Prophet makes an image of the Beast and it comes alive. So right now what we are seeing is the entire civilized world being groomed to talk with ‘virtual assistants’ like Alexa from Amazon, Cortana from Microsoft, Siri from Apple, and the list goes on and on. The future is happening now, exactly like King James Bible said it would be.
Those who own the voice-activated gadget, known colloquially as Alexa, after its female interlocutor, are prone to proselytizing “her” charms, applauding Alexa’s ability to call an Uber, order pizza or check a 10th-grader’s math homework. The company says more than 5,000 people a day profess their love for Alexa.
On the other hand, Alexa devotees also know that unless you speak to her very clearly . . . and . . . slowly, she’s likely to say: Sorry, I don’t have the answer to that question. “I love her. I hate her, I love her,” one customer wrote on Amazon’s website, while still awarding Alexa five stars. “You will very quickly learn how to talk to her in a way that she will understand and it’s not unlike speaking to a small frustrating toddler.”
Voice recognition has come a long way in the past few years. But it’s still not good enough to popularize the technology for everyday use and usher in a new era of human-machine interaction, allowing us to talk with all our gadgets—cars, washing machines, televisions. Despite advances in speech recognition, most people continue to swipe, tap and click. And probably will for the foreseeable future.
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