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Monitor monikers: why what we call our robots matters
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 7.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing, threat
Summary | It is really odd how frequently artificial intelliigence assistants are anthropomorphized. They usually get a human-like name: Alexa, Cortana, Siri, or Amy and Andrew Ingram. This is in line with the larger project of chatbots, which is to make the internet more personalized. This trend to make everything technological more intuitive however suppresses critical thinking and is dangerous.
Image Description | Allstar image of the talking computer from the film 2001: a Space Odyssey.
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