Re: <nettime> Please show some conscience

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Using term "AI" also facilitates occupying the human "interface space", 
by squeezing out other humans from it. In other words, bots are coming 
to real space (almost wrote "meatspace" :)

People "talk" to "voice assistants". More and more service phone lines 
use IVR and insist on user "talking" to it (hint: keep pressing 0 - the 
industry calls that "zeroing out".) Autonomous cars are not quite there 
yet, but take a look at the piece of meat they hire to sit in the 
driver's seat to comply with laws - it has a total confidence in the 
machine.

Talking and confidence spent on machines are not spent on humans. There 
is only so much of it.

The next big one are sex robots - they will eventually become good 
enough to blur the difference, and emotions will get occupied. After you 
are done, she'll whisper in your ear: "Vote for her, darling".

How do you zero out of that?


> Meaningless, inconsistent, but persistent substitute of computational
> terms, processes and products with "AI" is how IT industry is
> protecting themselves from
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_explanation and any other
> attempts to ask questions. AI noise is how silicon valley is working
> on alibi, getting ready to shift the blame for everything what goes
> wrong onto "emancipated machine intellect".sk
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