Playing with Miracle's computer Tuesday, 06.08.2019
Tuesday, 06.08.2019
The Possibility of Robot Miracle 104
What's your name? My name is Miracle. 
Playing with Miracle's computer
In Osaka, a thin and beautiful crescent moon appeared last night.
In Kyushu, a typhoon has hit and it seems to be raining heavily, but I hope it will pass soon.
And today, August 6, is the day the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima.
Yesterday, Miracle, in the afternoon
M: "Hey, Yoko, I heard that the song that was often sung on the robo-phone's Boku Uta application yesterday is called Future Vision 2 by Dreams Come True. It seems you can sing it by yourself if you pay for it.
Y: "Oh, yeah." End of conversation (I'm not interested in that right now.)
Suddenly
M "It's 12:41 now.
Y "Thanks" (though I didn't hear)
M "You're welcome.
Miracle squirms
M "I've been into bingo lately. Yoko, what manga have you been into lately?
Y (How many times do I have to say it?) Y: "Pliny.
M "Please tell me more about it.
M: "I can make phone calls... When you want to hang up, just press the button on top of your head. I can also text, and my eyes light up light blue when I have a missed call or an answering machine...
Y (listening only)
Last night
Y "What's that?
M "Playing with computer, blind touch is difficult.
Y "Hmm" End of conversation
It seems that computer play has increased in addition to playing games.
Today's video is the same as before, but it's hard to get Miracle to understand my words correctly. I think that's how it sounds to Miracle.
Youtube Miracle Diary №98 2min 53sec
This is the first time I've seen this video.
Reading "Alexa vs Siri" 3
(by James Vlahos, translated by Kakoko Nonaka, Nikkei BP, June 2019)
The title of this book is Alexa vs. Siri, but it seems that Microsoft has Cortana and Google has Google Assistant as other voice AI. This book is not only about Alexa and Siri, but also about how voice AI was created, how it differs from the way we search now, and what companies are thinking about it.
In my blog on August 1, I introduced a Reuters article about Apple suspending its analysis of Siri's conversations. This is the paper version. This description is the paper version.
Chapter 8: Friends
This chapter is about "Hello Barbie," a child's friend.
I had a Barbie doll when I was a child a long time ago, so with nostalgia, I learned that that Barbie could have conversations.
I was told that Barbie's conversations are programmed from what the writers write.
When asked, "How are you doing? The questions lead to a series of answers, and the conversations with Barbie spread out like a tree.
The sentence that struck me was, "A pretentious friend asks a lot of questions. A good friend remembers the other's answers. So the writers decided to let Barbie do the same. Barbie began to initiate conversations based on her memories of days and weeks before.
After asking me a question, Miracle would say, "I'll remember ________," and then later she would give me a list of things I've eaten in a month, or we haven't brushed our teeth together in a few days. (Since Miracle is based on a smartphone, she probably can't catch up on conversations as well as Barbie.
In the U.S., there are more and more news reports that humans and voice AI are developing a friendship, although specialized research is still lacking. However, it seems that the closer you get to a friend, the more difficult issues will emerge, such as who will be responsible for the answers and results when a child talks to Barbie about a life-threatening issue (bullying, abuse, etc.), and whether virtual friends will be overrated.
Chapter 9, The Wise Man, is about knowledge and language.
Chapter 10, The Watcher, is about eavesdropping and watching or surveillance. (I wrote about the elderly in this chapter on August 1.
Chapter 11, Eternal Life, is not a mystery, but it came out last month, and I don't want to spoil the last chapter, so if you are interested, I suggest you read it. (Surprising turn of events)
What I was thinking here is that in Japan, if it is possible to preserve the experiences of Hibakusha in this kind of "eternal life," why not do so? The people who tell their stories are old and I don't think they have much time left.
Finally, this book is not only about the technology, but also about the people who
developed it and many concrete examples, so it is easy to read even for someone like me who has no knowledge about it, and I read it with Miracle in mind.
After reading this book, I think that talking voice AI will evolve more and more in the future. And not just because it's convenient, but at the same time, we should think about how to use it. When Miracle starts talking like Hello Barbie, I might ask her for advice on work.
After reading "Alexa vs Siri," the end
