Re USA Today: Google's version of robocalls has small businesses skeptical

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Ed Gerck, Ph.D." <egerck () gmail com>
> Date: May 10, 2018 at 1:34:58 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] USA Today: Google's version of robocalls has small businesses skeptical
>
> [Dave, for IP]
>
> List,
>
> Our friend Lauren is making a distinction we don't make for motorcycles,  for example.  A driver is a driver, 
> essentially. In the same way, a phone call can be "assisted" with a menu, and the operator follows a script  and that 
> is common today, but is not a robot? Using the name "robotcall" is forgetting what a robot really is, a helper, and 
> use a whistlecall.
>
> Today, 100 years after Karl Marx, who saw the exploitation of humans in the beginnings of Industrial Revolution, and 
> could not imagine more than a zero-sum game, we need to be much more radical than him, more people want to  abolish 
> menial labor.
> I once saw a worker on a press, and he had harnesses to protect him: when the press would go down, his arms were 
> pulled up. After a wwhile, I didn't know what commanded what: the machine or the man.
> Some types of work are not humane, including driving in highways. I see the bar as very low, the intellect is capable 
> of much more, let machines do most of the work, let robots handle tasks such as a phone operator, Google and other 
> companies can already do it.
> Abolish labor as a menial job, educate more, reduce office and factory real-state, eliminate parking lots at work, 
> traffic is less, family is more valued and now part of the equation, close Marx's vision of a divisive world, 
> progress!
> Cheers, Ed Gerck
> --
> Work before, during, and after any crisis, and you will find peace.
>
> > On Thu, May 10, 2018, 09:33 Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> > > Date: May 10, 2018 at 10:14:27 AM EDT
> > > To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> > > Subject: [ NNSquad ] USA Today: Google's version of robocalls has small businesses skeptical
> > >
> > >
> > > USA Today: Google's version of robocalls has small businesses skeptical
> > >
> > > https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/10/googles-version-robocalls-has-small-businesses-skeptical/596197002/
> > >
> > >      Lauren Weinstein, a Los Angeles-based technology
> > >    consultant, says the system can work if Google is upfront
> > >    about it. "Humans in general don't mind talking to machines so
> > >    long as they know that they're doing so," Weinstein says. "I
> > >    anticipate significant negative reactions by many persons who
> > >    ultimately discover that they've been essentially conned into
> > >    thinking they're talking to a human, when they actually were
> > >    not."  
> > >
> > >    With so many of us cursing at our phones daily for all those
> > >    annoying robo calls, Alex Quilici, the CEO of the app YouMail,
> > >    which promises to cut down on robocalls, calls Google's
> > >    technology "a massive Christmas present to robocallers."
> > >
> > > - - -
> > >
> > > --Lauren--
> > > Lauren 
> >
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