‘Silicon Valley is ethically lost’.

by veya_victaous Thu May 10, 2018 4:07 am

Zeynep Tufekci, a technologist and associate professor at the University of North Carolina who regularly dispels the benevolent aura of the tech giants for The New York Times, has lashed out at Google’s latest showcase experiment.

“Google Assistant making calls pretending to be human not only without disclosing that it’s a bot, but adding ‘ummm’ and ‘aaah’ to deceive the human on the other end with the room cheering it ... horrifying. Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing,” she said.

“That the many in Google did not erupt in utter panic and disgust at the first suggestion of this ... is incredible to me.”

In a fiery Twitter outburst, she argued tech companies have a responsibility to properly delineate between humans and algorithms.

“As digital technologies become better at doing human things, the focus has to be on how to protect humans, how to delineate humans and machines, and how to create reliable signals of each,” she said.

“This is straight up, deliberate deception. Not okay.”

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I 100% disagree with the Prejudice and Discrimination Against Cybernetic Sentients Wink

there is no need to ~~eliminate~~delineate between humans and algorithms

by veya_victaous Thu May 10, 2018 4:09 am

@quill

LOL your right about the Prejudice of North Carolinians Laughing

by Original Quill Thu May 10, 2018 4:25 am

Right...check it out. Laughing

This AI service, which was presented by Google in the recent corporate presentation, was confounded when the caller spoke in a ebonic accent.

The southern attitude confounded the system, not because the AI system couldn't handle the context, but the reaction of the respondants to an ebonic accent incorporated prejudice and went way out of line. You'll get the same reaction for any similar call, from Virginia south, and sweeping west to the Rio Grande River.

It's incredible. Nobody wants to book a black person in the south. They are still operating on the 'separate but equal' standard.

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