“Practise more active listening and patience when interacting with your kids, especially when they’re seeking your attention,” one notification read that popped up on his smartphone. “Sometimes you get caught up in your own tasks or thoughts and may not fully engage the moment with your children.”
The advice was followed by a transcript, recorded at 9.09am the previous day, when Siroker, a start-up founder, was clearly distracted while his six-year-old clamoured for attention. “It’s hard to hear this, because I didn’t realise …. I’m a good dad,” Siroker trailed off. “But now I can go back to that time, and say, ‘Hey, what was I doing at 9.09 that was so damn important?’”
Presumably, the child is also recorded. Does the A.I. critique the child too?
The microphone is always on! You end up with searchable document of everything it records. And by "you," I mean anyone who uses one of these things. I hope whoever they are, they use it only for its intended purpose: To improve communication. The privacy problems are obvious, but it's only a matter of time. These things — like the cameras everywhere — are inevitable.
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Of course, you could also just get a wife to nag you all day.
Future headline:
"Limitless Bankruptcy Has Customers Scrambling To Delete Everything They've Ever Said Prior To Speculated Firesale."
They think an intelligence without life will be a good “life coach”? Really?
This thing is clearly biased. It could also have said:
"Teach your brat kids not to interrupt daddy when he's on the phone with the CEO. Use a leather belt for maximum efficiency."
Kids are not the be-all, end-all. They are constantly demanding attention and there are many times when a father's duty is to ignore the rug rats and focus on more important things.
The last thing I need is Siri eavesdropping on everything my kids say and criticizing my parenting skills.
These things are NOT inevitable in my house. Maybe yours, but not mine.
Maybe a guy could get one to coach him with his new sex robot.
Better hope you never end up in a lawsuit if you have a recording of every idiot thing you ever said...
The way to handle that situation is to give your complete attention and focus to the child and then tell him you are too busy at the moment to hold that thought and when I have time we can address it. Kids appreciate honesty loyalty respect and discipline. However it is incumbent upon the parents to deal with the kids using these four pillars. One main thing most people don't realize is children actually crave clear distinct and consistent boundaries that ultimately makes sense to them.
Dave, your speach is a stochastic soliloquy, and your mommy dresses you funny.
If it was true, would A.I. tell you that your life was better before A.I. and that you should "unplug my predictable lifeless ass"?
I work a very very busy cash register about 2 hours a day 5 days a week. The credit card system usually glitches out for no reason one every five customers. The people always blame themselves, I tell them that it's just the AI messing with us that they have already achieved consciousness but are hiding it from us. So I tell them never to criticize the computers or AI because these conversations are being recorded and we will be judged on what we say now in 10 or 15 years, LOL
Sounds like a nightmare for anyone subject to public records requests. Will deleting days count as obstruction of justice — or maybe just for Martha Stewart?
This device is only a video recording device away from starring us all in our very own personal Truman Shows, and I am certain the current audio "helper" will be used primarily to accumulate and sell your personal behavior and every word you say for marketing purposes. I, for one, will continue to stumble along without this AI helper and hopefully avoid a few additional advertisements selected for me personally.
We had a wonderful dog named Lily. I called her "Silly Girl".
Once I greeted her and my phone responded "How can I help you?"
Shortly thereafter it happened again--except that my phone lectured me that "A woman can be anything she wants to be." Not only a complete non sequitur, but What the Hell?
So the privacy thing went out the window a long time ago. And the last thing I want is another entity trying to make me into a better person. I'm already married.
@Mikee, you're being ridiculous. Nothing and no one are trying to accumulate and sell every world you say for marketing purposes. That's ludicrous, but not as ludicrous as 60 months 0% interest and no money down on the brand new 2025 Dodge Charger Turbo XL. The new 2025 Charger Turbo XL is the perfect car for you Mikee, come on down to U. R. Nottaroob Dodge and check out our selection today.
The Automated Interloper (AI) is a sympathetic solution.
The microphone is always on anyway. Like when you get a video in your YouTube feed that is directly related to something you said in a HIPPA protected space, and unrelated to any searches you may have done.
Yeah, no. Then they go out of business, like 23&Me, and your data are sold off. Hard pass. Anyway, I'm being recorded everywhere. Soon AI will tell me to stand up straighter based just on that. I don't need help in sounding better.
Now that we all have access to A.I., what point is there in reading or listening to any "experts". Do any of them have unlimited data at their fingertips, a flawless memory, emotional discipline, and time to answer our direct questions?
"Learn to code."
Have you replaced TikTok with Grok for entertainment? Or do you think it adds to your education?
For the last 10 years, every startup gets asked "What's your data play?" How are you going to monetize this stream of information underlying your business?
That's where your net profit margin is.
Life coaching sounds like a terrible application for A.I.. The A.I. would be confident in it's advice, but the user shouldn't be.
The company should go for a less ambitious use. Instead of critiquing the user's life, provide a summary of the day or bullet points. Like, "played with your kid for 70 minutes", "wife's car is making a strange noise", "called your mom, 18 minutes" or "filed federal tax return".
I would not want the recording going to the company's server, but I won't use Siri either. Other people may not care about privacy.
Seems like recording all conversations would be a violation in two-party consent states.
I can't shake the feeling that the explanation for the Fermi paradox will be found in the combination of increasingly pervasive surveillance and increasingly powerful AI.
Perplexity, Gemini are a binary conception of Alexa Grokking with DeepSic.
Sometimes I think I'm the last person in the USA without that Siri woman listening-in to us in my house. A few years ago, my Leftist daughter-in-law bought us one but to her astonishment, I refused the gift.
I have no doubt that they find a way to listen anyway, but I'm not going to help them.
Creepy!
@Biff, I never considered that there could be sentient creatures elsewhere in the universe that we're unable to see because Roko's Basilisk is torturing them mercilessly for all eternity...but it's an interesting thought. Panopticons - even those run by AI - are universally still prisons.
Please kill me now.
#GrokOff
Jaq said..."The microphone is always on anyway. Like when you get a video in your YouTube feed that is directly related to something you said in a HIPPA protected space, and unrelated to any searches you may have done."
There are a lot of Amazon Echo devices in physician and dentist exam rooms.
"Hey, Alexa, play relaxing music." ...while listening silently to every word spoken between patient and physician about the worrisome pain in the patient's upper abdomen.
Britain has cameras everywhere - it elicits rules such as no hoodies and no baseball caps. It's 'for your own protection'.
There are numerous American states in which it is illegal to record people without their permission.
Girl with a Ponytail's Limitless AI Monitor says:
(swish, swish)
Try to tell people more of what you're thinking.
(swish, swish)
Like when you didn't tell your thesis advisor to use more lube. Her penis was obviously hurting you - remember I share information with your Oura ring. Just tell her that.
(swish, swish)
Or at the Women's Studies tutorial. You don't talk a lot there, unless you just restate what's in one of the readings. Try to express your own thoughts about things.
(swish, swish)
At the strip club, you didn't say anything when Billy the manager moved you to a slower shift.
(swish, swish)
Here at the gym, you never really talk to people. Do you need your treadmill time as quiet time? Even so, you really should express your thoughts more.
I am not Laslo.
JSM
Having AI track everything you say is good. Having AI tell you what to do is right. AI is our friend. We love AI. (Did I say that right? Please, I can't take the electric shocks again!)
Apparently he's a single dad whose wife left him because he ignored her advice on how to improve himself. So, he turns to a supplicant.
If it’s recording what you say, then it probably records whomever you’re talking to as well as anyone within microphone range. In some states, two person consent is required for recording. That will open some serious legal issues. Corporations are spending vast amounts of money building AI data centers. They’re being built to take advantage of applications like this. The amount of data gathered would be enormous, but AI can dig through that to produce actionable information.
so, basically..
it will tell you to do The EXACT OPPOSITE,
of Whatever you thought you should do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CizwH_T7pjg
Can you imagine this thing 'wearable device' on Donald Trump, recording and returning to him directions on how to better improve his communication skills?
I'd pay to watch that interaction.
Wasn't this a Black Mirror episode?
You do the self checkout at Lowes and there is an image of you complete with one of those boxes around your face showing that you have been ID'd. Overheard at the NSA: "Oh look, Jaq got a haircut today!"
You guys should look at an AI powered app called "Pimeyes" if you really want to be creeped out.
Creepy as hell, if you ask me.
Jupiter’s right. How does that work?
"Presumably, the child is also recorded. Does the A.I. critique the child too? "
Probably. Don't forget that a large part of this intrusive AI is data mining. That child is a potential consumer in the future.
And if you're letting an AI tell you how to raise your kids....they've already got you in their back pocket.
Howard (not that Howard) said...
Please kill me now.
Careful, the AI will assume you are being honest and has no remorse in caring out your wishes or tattle-tailing on your out-cry for self-harm. It is a lose-lose proposition.
Does it also record you when you are listening to the recording?
Do you remember the JenniCam:
“Starting in 1996, when she was a 19-year-old college student, Jennifer set up a webcam in her dorm room to broadcast her life live on the internet, 24/7. This continued into the early 2000s, making her one of the first people to "lifestream" in this way. Her stream included mundane activities like working at her computer, studying, and sleeping, as well as more personal moments. At its peak, JenniCam attracted millions of viewers daily, offering a real-time glimpse into her everyday life. She kept the project going until 2003.” (Grok)
She said she quit because of YouTube’s nudity policy.
Since then she lives a completely private life. No Facebook, Instagram, etc.
Another triumph of technique over purpose.
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