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Enter the ‘Whisperverse’: How AI voice agents will guide us through our days
Within the next few years, an AI-powered voice will burrow into your ears and take up residence inside your head.
At Meta Connect in September, the company showcased new consumer-focused features for these glasses, such as helping users find their parked cars, translating languages in real-time and naturally answering questions about things you see in front of you. I like thinking of these AI-powered entities as elves because that is what they will become in our lives — helpful little creatures that prompt you with the exact cargo capacity of a railcar when you just can’t remember in an important meeting, or takes the shape of a flying fairy that guides you through Costco to find the items on your shopping list as efficiently as possible. Computer scientist Louis Rosenberg with ELF concept (Carbon Dating, 2021) On the other hand, deploying intelligent systems that whisper in your ears as you go about your life could easily be abused as a dangerous form of targeted influence.
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