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Bob's avatar

Try to do anything without your iphone. Leave it at home for a day. That's the conundrum.

Cliff Newman's avatar

I have an old desktop computer and an old landline phone and my last car was older with no electronics. If the government wants to track me they can get a warrant. I do not enter act with machines that can control or make changes to my life [and I never use AI]. For the past fifty years I have been using desktop computers that have been crashing and burning and I will NEVER get in a moving vehicle run by one of these crash and burn machines. Machines cannot run themselves, they are either run by computers or they are demon possessed. There is God's Intelligence and there is Satan's artificial intelligence. What could possibly go wrong with that? I will not be finding out but if you want to use machines that your lawless government controls so they can control you... then go right ahead and use them. Personally I can't [(will not)] bend over that far.

Racklefratz's avatar

Article's going-in premise fails. We're never told where the mysterious AI "life coach" comes from.

Did it just pop up as a "bubble" in front of the guy? Did it come from whatever device he's using to order "the greasy pizza"? Where?

And the implication is that whenever AI steps in, we have to pay attention and comply with its dictates. We don't - it's all optional.

Nice try, but no cigar.

john's avatar

90+% of people I know use nothing but Google...when there are viable alternatives.

They willingly accept Google as their life coach...and Mommy.

"Alexa, where is my phone?"