Re Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?

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

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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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