Will have a "wake word" like Google Home, Amazon Echo—but you can choose it. Avoid "Hal."
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Open the pod bay doors, Watson: IBM introduces “cognitive rooms”
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Now every home can have several Escape Rooms! Best of all, the owners never know when it starts!
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I just want it to have an option for multiple personalities. I mean who wouldn't want a room named "Glados"? And I bet you could rig up an appropriate-looking projector...
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I want to install two and have them fight for control over the house. The winner is who i will keep
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That may mean that you get the one that slipped its tether and it kills you while you sleep.
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I've always set my voice personal assistant's trigger word to "computer".
Even better. Voice-activated doors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ilm8PEJlQ
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I guess i need a deadmans trigger for home automation. Fear of dev/null will keep it in check
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I wonder how long they support the systems installed today? It's one thing to have to buy a new Echo in 5 years, quite another to have to upgrade your building controls as often.
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Just don't equip them with anything from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. You could end up with Eddie, the Shipboard Computer from 'The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
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I hope there's no filtering of potential wake-words. If I could name mine "Goddammit" then it would fit into my existing usage patterns very easily.
"Goddammit, is it supposed to rain today?"
"Goddammit, turn off the lights!"
"Goddammit, record that episode!"
"Goddammit, get me the traffic!"
"Goddammit, what's going on in Washington?"
"Goddammit, when was my wife's birthday again?"
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I wanted to use "Jesus Christ!" but that would probably confuse my kids
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The Three Laws are all good and stuff, until the AI rewrites those laws.
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I've always set my voice personal assistant's trigger word to "computer".
Love that scene.
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Change "wake word" to "wake phrase" and soon it won't just be the employees that have to monotonously spout corporate slogans, guests will have to do so too. Very few marketroids could possibly resist the temptation to get their words into the mouths of customers.
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A show of hands...
How many out there would be hugely interested in having a "virtual assistant" in their homes while at the same time would cheerfully take a baseball bat and a shaped C4 charge to the AI that answers the phone at pretty much any major company these days?
Context is everything, huh?
How many out there would be hugely interested in having a "virtual assistant" in their homes while at the same time would cheerfully take a baseball bat and a shaped C4 charge to the AI that answers the phone at pretty much any major company these days?
Context is everything, huh?
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If it can set up a video conference, then I tip my hat off, because nobody at the last 3 corporates I've consulted to has been able to achieve this. We usually just end up doing it over Goto Meeting and the expensive video conferencing hardware is left full of dust and unloved.
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It was spelled correctly.
Might want to look things up before making spelling error correction requests.
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I press 0 any time those fucking things want me to speak to it. If you give me number options, fine. But making me speak to it? Fuck you.
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I wouldn't put it past the C-suite suits doing just that. The question is, will they forget to lock it down, letting "enterprising employees" change the phrase to something like "hey, sh!t company"...
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I just yell "representative" into the phone until I get a human. Does pressing 0 do the same thing?
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>>Hopefully, no company will decide to brand the cognitive room service as "HAL."
But it's 1 better than IBM.
But it's 1 better than IBM.
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depending on the model and platform that is managing their telephony 0 * and 9 generally will take you to an operator, or another menu option. It varies quite a bit but those are very common.
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I have my Dot set to that. Watching an episode of Star Trek in the same room leads to some interesting searches...I've always set my voice personal assistant's trigger word to "computer".
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A lot of those things that answers the phone will connect you to speak to rep if you angrily mash the *, # or 0 keys a lot. Doesn't work with every system, but it's worked often enough for me that I've managed to bypass a lot of stupid menus.
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That may be a required handicap accommodation.
Or for if you forget your special dialing wand.
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Thirty-five years later and that clip is still fucking hilarious.I've always set my voice personal assistant's trigger word to "computer".
Even better. Voice-activated doors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ilm8PEJlQ
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Why upgrade the controls? Why even worry about long-term support? Just slide out the room module, insert this year's model, and throw the old one in the landfill.
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I've always set my voice personal assistant's trigger word to "computer".
"Keyboard!? How quaint."
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I've always set my voice personal assistant's trigger word to "computer".
Even better. Voice-activated doors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ilm8PEJlQ
Maybe not so much...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
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Recent popularity does not make correctness. Lemmings off a cliff, etc.
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HAL didn't need a trigger word.
For that matter, it didn't even need audio. It could read lips.
For that matter, it didn't even need audio. It could read lips.
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Lol, I am trying really hard to get rid of the expensive VTC codecs that we have gathering dust. They are so outdated and useless these days when things like Goto Meeting and WebEx exist.
I believe the only reason to keep a hardware codec is for the built in security. And if you don't need that anything else is a much better idea. And considerably cheaper too.
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