Artificial Intelligence offers us some incredible possibilities. One of the ways that each of us can be enhanced is by having a personal assistant that is individual to us. The groundwork for this is being laid at this time.
Unfortunately, Apple, Google, and Amazon are all vying for this crown. To me, this is not healthy for individual users.
Products such as SIRI and Alexa are meant to take more control of our lives. Alexa is vying to be the operating system of the house. Amazon already sold millions of them. While this will likely evolve into a AI driven personal assistant, it will be controlled (and monitored) by Amazon. In other words, they will get all the data.
Like many of the future possibilities, I am for the concept as long as the mega-technology companies are not in control.
On the personal assistant front, on project I wanted to make people aware of is open source enabling one to control what the company actually received.
Mycroft is an AI driven personal assistant similar to Alexa. It is a device that goes in the home and is able to offer reminders, answer questions, and save information. Over time, the system learns your voice while being able to filter out noise.
The key to Artificial Intelligence is making sure that all have access to it while removing the threat of providing even more power to the mega-technology companies.
At present, most projects are being funded by governments and the large corporations, neither which are overly concerned about individual liberty.
The company already sold out of their first generation of the product and is working on its second version.
Please note, this is not a recommendation to buy. I have not personally tested the product.
That said, the reason I bring this up to to present options to people and make us all aware of some of what it out there. We need many more projects like this that are building their platforms using open source software. This is how we, collectively, can protect ourselves from the likes of Google and Amazon.
As I mentioned, there is a race taking place at the moment and it is to be the at home operating system. We saw how Microsoft was able to leverage an early lead into decades of dominance. They are still the main player in the Enterprise world.
Open source does not behold us to any one company. Over time, if we get enough open source devices out there, it is likely they will be able to bridged together. The mega-technology corporations will provide a seamless system yet one without choices.
For example, what is the likelihood that Alexa takes the edict "buy more mustard" and places the order with Wal-Mart? There is no chance. We all know that order, and all others, will be done thought Amazon.
Thus, we will see how choice is removed. Even if another option can be selected, we know how powerful default settings are. Most people never change them.
In the quest to end slavery, we need to seek out as many solutions as we can that get us away from the tech behemoths.
Here is a possibility that could offer a viable option to people.
Personal AI assistants will be a part of our future. The only question is who will be in control of the data?
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