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Re Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 18:18:15 -0400
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From: Tom Van Vleck <thvv () multicians org> Date: April 8, 2018 at 5:45:10 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Re Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? When I knew Joe Weizenbaum at MIT Project MAC in the 1960s, he believed that no responsible computer scientist should work on speech recognition, because of the possibility that the technology would be used for surveillance. (Joe and his family had come to the USA from Germany in 1936.)From: Chuck McManis <chuck.mcmanis () gmail com> Date: April 5, 2018 at 11:42:58 AM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? Regarding what can they hear and how can companies use it ... I know from working at Google that at least back in 2008 some of the advertising folks were trying to figure out if they put a microphone in a store and pick up the same voice print of someone who had asked for directions to that store using the Goog-411 service. The goal being to create the equivalent of a 'click' in the online world that they could bill the company for sending that customer their way. I worked for about a month using some 20% time to sketch out what would have to be true for something like that to work, for example a microphone near the entrance to the store and a greater who would say hello to people, encouraging them to say hello back so that a voice sample could be collected. That project didn't really go anywhere as far as I could tell, Google was still leery about building hardware that had to live outside of data centers.
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