Posted on 02/08/2015 2:43:25 PM PST by Enlightened1
Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.
Left: Samsung SmartTV privacy policy, warning users not to discuss personal info in front of their TV Right: 1984
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"Slow error prone way to interact..." - got me to thinking about some movies where voice commands are misinterpreted. Jim Carey in "The Mask" asking his dog to "Get the keys" so he can unlock the jail cell door; Milo the dog retrieves the cheese from the guard's desk. Then there is the recent movie "Automata" where robots build a superior robot, and the human asks why it doesn't talk (in a human manner), and the older robots say it won't need to (presumably because humans are inferior and will go extinct). There's a new generation of kids who prefer to interact without speaking.
Y’all don’t seriously think this is unique to Samsung - nor new?
Probably the opposite will be true in the future. We’ll be required to have a Samsung-like, Snooper-TV. At precisely 6am we’ll have to be in front of it to say good morning to Fearless Leader, and do our required exercises and verify our healthy breakfast meal, sing the Fearless Leader Anthem together, etc. It will be a wonderful, patriotic, and healthy part of each new day, before we don our blue-jean uniform and walk to work in the dark with our shovels on our left shoulders.....truly a New World Order!
Looks to me like the NSA/FBI/DHS/CIA data mining project is finally paying off and all the tiny threads and missing pieces of the national human puzzle are slowly coming together.
It is new enough. Not long ago most homes did not have always on fast internet service.
“mmmm. mmm. umm.”
Your post is hilarious - albeit the spine tingles a bit - sounds like it’s taken direct from Dear Leaders “Agenda...”
So - have one dedicated ‘tech room’ - with all electronics in it. tape over the web cams, turn off the mics.
No person to person conversation about anything, basically, than the weather.
Have a ‘family room’ that is just that. No tech stuff to cross the threshold. (snark)
Disney's "Heigh-Ho" is the obvious, but it's an ancient cliché, really. Any number of Marine Corps marching chants come to mind, along the lines of, "I don't know but I've been told....", would suffice, but we wouldn't want to be irreverent. Madonna's "Material Girl" would get the blood flowing, but it might be considered sexist.
I have it! I think, for marches, we have to look to the Germans. Yep. "Alte Kameraden". That's it. Get to work with fascist-social Democratic style. Let the Marching begin!
If you turn on the "Hey Siri" function that probably isn't true. My wife enabled that function but it kept trying to answer the TV so turned it off.
LOL!
"Hey Siri" is only supposed to work if you say the words when you are connected to a power source. Is your TV saying those words. . . Without power source Siri is activated when you hold the home button for an extra long time.
I don't particularly need something to respond to my voice, so I have not activated it. I may give it a try to test and see if I have a similar issue as you describe, hoot.
Just turned it on. . . so we shall find out.
FYI: HDTV ping...
I haven`t bought anything Samsung since they screwed me on my first HD big screen 6 years ago. Remember the "It`s the mirrors" ads?" Color wheels, lamps, etc. were a constant battle to maintain. A truly POS television. Top it off, Samsung told me they were very sorry but they had discontinued making parts for the thing but maybe I could find the parts I needed on eBay. This for a product they had sold for only 3 years.
So, if I say, “hand me the anal lube” the computer will use it to blackmail me? Because if not, yes, tinfoilery.
I’m glad I have a 1982 Zenith.
DirecTV and Microsoft pitched the same feature on the Xbox One and latest DirecTV HD receiver ahead of their release.
And just think, after the North Koreans take over all of Korea in 2016 (do you really think that the Kenyan would do anything to stop them), they will have access to all that data.
One way or the other it has to process constantly to know if you’re commanding it to do something. Which is all this is doing.
The coupons always arrive after I have left to go shopping for the item.
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