[Magdalen] Artificial intelligence in automobiles -- was Bishop Cook

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 16:05:11 UTC 2015


The movie Grace refers to is "Her". I haven't seen it. Of course there was
Hal in "2001".

S/O has a Bluetooth setup in his vehicle. One of the voice choices it had
was female, British accent. He calls it Penelope.

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> LOL!
> Well, there is that movie about the guy who fell in love with the computer
> voice--and they did have real conversations. Don't remember the name...
>
> > On Jan 11, 2015, at 1:25 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ​
> >
> >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> in re Siri?  A friend was experimenting and when Siri asked what he
> >> wanted, he said "talk dirty to me Siri" and she began to tell him wear
> to
> >> shop for detergent... LOL
> >
> > The female voice in our car conveys a friendly and attractive attitude.
> > Once, I made a comment about wanting for us to get to know each other
> > better.
> >
> > "There's a rest stop three and two tenths miles ahead.  Pull in there,
> and
> > we'll discuss it in detail, you old-fashioned boy."
> >
> > I can't believe the advances they're making in AI these days.
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things
> better
> > for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your
> time
> > on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
> > ​
>


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