{"id":65185,"date":"2018-11-10T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65185"},"modified":"2018-11-10T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:52:57","slug":"geez-is-this-the-future-we-want-also-if-we-dont-call-this-exponential-change-i-dont-know-what-that-expression-means-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/11\/10\/geez-is-this-the-future-we-want-also-if-we-dont-call-this-exponential-change-i-dont-know-what-that-expression-means-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Geez! Is this the future we want? Also, if we don&#8217;t call this exponential change, I don&#8217;t know what that expression means then!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2018\/11\/09\/these-news-anchors-are-professional-efficient-theyre-also-not-human\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>These news anchors are professional and efficient. They\u2019re also not human. <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Taylor Telford<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The new anchors at China\u2019s state-run news agency have perfect hair and no pulse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Xinhua News just unveiled what it is calling the world\u2019s first news anchors powered by artificial intelligence, at the World Internet Conference on Wednesday in China\u2019s Zhejiang province. From the outside, they are almost indistinguishable from their human counterparts, crisp-suited and even-keeled. Although Xinhua says the anchors have the \u201cvoice, facial expressions and actions of a real person,\u201d the robotic anchors relay whatever text is fed to them in stilted speech that sounds less human than Siri or Alexa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2018\/11\/09\/these-news-anchors-are-professional-efficient-theyre-also-not-human\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-65186 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/China-AI-newscasters-Nov2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/China-AI-newscasters-Nov2018.jpg 787w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/China-AI-newscasters-Nov2018-150x85.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/China-AI-newscasters-Nov2018-768x435.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The question is&#8230;is this what we want our future to look like?<\/strong>\u00a0Personally, I don&#8217;t care to watch a robotic newscaster giving me the latest &#8220;death and dying report.&#8221; It comes off bad enough &#8212; callous enough &#8212; from human beings backed up by TV networks\/stations that have agendas of their own; let alone from a robot run by AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These news anchors are professional and efficient. They\u2019re also not human. &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Taylor Telford Excerpt: The new anchors at China\u2019s state-run news agency have perfect hair and no pulse. Xinhua News just unveiled what it is calling the world\u2019s first news anchors powered by artificial intelligence, at the World Internet Conference on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,817,387,174,86,112,353,44,309,437,480,460,454,195,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-business","category-career-development","category-change","category-corporate-business-world","category-moralsvalues","category-pace-of-change","category-platforms","category-robotics","category-society","category-technology-general","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65191,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65185\/revisions\/65191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}