{"id":550,"date":"2010-12-18T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2010-12-18T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T19:02:01","slug":"nosy-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/550","title":{"rendered":"Nosy phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I ever share my little vision of future phones that listen in and contribute to conversations? When voice recognition and some basic conversational AI are well-developed, I can imagine that phones would listen to the conversations, both calls and environmental conversations (when they&#8217;re sitting on the table between two people), and constantly scan for some sort of question they could answer.<\/p>\n<p>Just now someone asked me in a call &#8220;What time is it?&#8221;. Of course, I had to look at my phone to answer that, so it&#8217;s sorta obvious that a nosy phone could answer that one. But the scope could be much larger than that with Internet-connected phones running little background searches for anything interesting and piping in with answers.<\/p>\n<p>Futurama had a good bit about that, though the computer wasn&#8217;t in portable form. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotfuturama.com\/Multimedia\/EpisodeSounds\/3ACV04\/\">number 12 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I ever share my little vision of future phones that listen in and contribute to conversations? When voice recognition and some basic conversational AI are well-developed, I can imagine that phones would listen to the conversations, both calls and environmental conversations (when they&#8217;re sitting on the table between two people), and constantly scan for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}