In the essay “Goodbye Privacy,Hello Alexa:Amazon Echo, the home robot hears it all”, the author Rory Caroll introduce us to a new device capable to respond and store automatically our personal information. Based on his experience with Alexa, Caroll talked about the benefits and disadvantages of having this robot at home. However, despite Alexa seem to be useful, I think this invention remains an unnecessary danger I would avoid in my home or my life. I do not deny Alexa is convenient in some ways when I consider all the features she has, on the other hand she could make people develop a sort of Laziness and Dependence. Because of Alexa can generate a lot of information, this will discourage people to make physical and intellectual efforts. For examples, no …show more content…
Alexa has the ability to listen to our conversations, record our personal information by catching every single words saying and store them. The robot can respond even we don’t formulate any request. It is like Alexa could think for us and anticipate on our desires. Referring to the essay, Caroll gives us an example of Alexa spying and recording when he says.” No proudest moment but I still listen to it-my pathetic weedling-because the robot recorded, saved and uploaded it to the cloud.” Caroll wrote again that “the device after all, was uploading personal data to Amazon servers”. Really !!! I could not imagine having all my habits, preferences or non –preferences, my opinions, my words go to Amazon servers storage where anyone could find or use them on their own interest without my concern. With Alexa, the corporations have free pass to spy us and introduce to our life without any permissions. Caroll reported it when he affirmed that," It felt creepy" after he discovered he was spied by Alexa when he received an advertisement about diapers without any request of this kind following a conversation he had with his wife about
“Don’t Look Behind you” is filled with suspense as Mike the hetman tries to kill the father. The author use of imagery contributes to the story. Duncan’s story was able to contain many of SOAPSTone elements. Duncan wrote “Don’t Look Behind You” in a teenager perspective as her life changed dramatically. The use of suspense to create the mystery element in the story as the Corrigan goes in hiding to run away from a hit man. Don’t Look Behind You” have a speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject and tone.
Scott Feschuk’s article “The Future of Machines with Feelings” was published in MacLean’s Magazine in 2015. In his essay, Feschuk delivers a vivid picture of emotionally responsive machines and the future of human-machine interaction. On the other hand, he raised his concerns about privacy rights of individuals, which could be violated by emotional sensing machines. Moreover, he mentioned findings of expert researchers such as Rana el Kaliouby. Although this may be true that emotional machines could violate human privacy rights, but technology is going to take over our lives. It can help autistic children to better react to human emotions. Corporations would target emotional state
Life is not a series of isolated ponds and puddles; life is a river. Only in the most literal sense are we born on the day we leave our mother's womb. In the larger, truer sense, we are born of the past - connected to its fluidity, both genetically and experientially.
“Echo” by Henriqueta Lisboa is a poem that allows the reader to try to understand its meaning and structure by using the following components: experience, strategy, meter, tone, unity, commonplace, and evaluation. These seven components are used to analyze the poem’s structure and meaning.
In the essay “Everything Now” Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, author Steve McKevitt blames our unhappiness on having everything we need and want, given to us now. While his writing is compelling, he changes his main point as his conclusion doesn’t match his introduction. He uses “want versus need” (145) as a main point, but doesn’t agree what needs or wants are, and uses a psychological theory that is criticized for being simplistic and incomplete. McKevitt’s use of humor later in the essay doesn’t fit with the subject of the article and comes across almost satirical. Ultimately, this essay is ineffective because the author’s main point is inconsistent and poorly conveyed.
Like previously mentioned,we can do the tasks ourselves,however the A.I is able to collect data on what you like,what you have done,and is able to give recommendations based on your habits.For example in the article “The Privacy Problem with Digital Assistants” Kaveh Waddell mentions “If a friend messages you to ask if you want to check out a bar downtown tonight, Google will hop in to suggest a few good bars.”(3)or “If you receive a photo of an infant, Google will suggest that you reply awwww or cute!One tap and Google sends one of those canned responses for you”(3).Again,this is one of the many things that the A.I’s are capable of .To draw a connection to Intellectual Technology,one of the definitions that Carr mentions is“The process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in the changing
The novel, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other (2011) written by Sherry Turkle, presents many controversial views, and demonstrating numerous examples of how technology is replacing complex pieces and relationships in our life. The book is slightly divided into two parts with the first focused on social robots and their relationships with people. The second half is much different, focusing on the online world and it’s presence in society. Overall, Turkle makes many personally agreeable and disagreeable points in the book that bring it together as a whole.
...re of this fact. Yet, we still like to think of what we do on the internet as our own business, and we do not like governments searching through our Gmail accounts or recording our video chats. It somehow does not seem wrong when Amazon does it – after all, we are the ones who willingly create an account knowing that Amazon will have an insight in what we buy, what we want to buy and what we need, even when we ourselves are not aware that we need it.
Ever since day one, people have been developing and creating all sorts of new methods and machines to help better everyday life in one way or another. Who can forget the invention of the ever-wondrous telephone? And we can’t forget how innovative and life-changing computers have been. However, while all machines have their positive uses, there can also be many negatives depending on how one uses said machines, wiretapping in on phone conversations, using spyware to quietly survey every keystroke and click one makes, and many other methods of unwanted snooping have arisen. As a result, laws have been made to make sure these negative uses are not taken advantage of by anyone.
Holtzman, D. Privacy Lost: How Technology is Endangering your Privacy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006. Print.
University of the West of England, "Could Robots and Smart Devices Help Older People Look After Themselves?", 26 March 2010 , Science Daily, 27 May 2010,
In his book Holtzman discusses how new technology threatens our privacy and how the law is incapable of protecting us. Holtzman has received a B.S. in Computer Science (326). He has worked as a security advisor in several organizations (326). By restating the title of the book in the introduction Holtzman claims that having no control over our personal information has resulted in the loss of privacy (xix). As Senator Evan Bayh mentioned in the foreword, the book examines the thin border “between protecting the United States and protecting our civil rights” (vi). Altogether, the main point of Privacy Lost is to deliver the message that “you have the right to control information about yourself” (xxv).
Every day devices such as computers and calculators are artificial intelligence, but the ethically questionable devices are located in a much more advanced field. Many believe that artificial intelligence, or AI, poses threats to society, including a breach of privacy, a reliance on technology, and even the downfall of society. The thought that the future will be grim and unpleasant due to technological mishaps is displayed in films such as iRobot. Films like iRobot bring forth the idea that computers may lead to the downfall of society. Although there are many more advantages than disadvantages in AI, there are still some potential threats such as AI malfunctions. Insight on the concept of “man vs. machine” will be a large role in controlling the advancements. The acceptance of AI is the primary intent of providing ethically sound information. Despite growing fears against AI, artificial intelligence is not a question of unethical humanity but one of scientific advancement, which will produce the ability to reach an alternative to human labor.
Privacy from governments has been under assault increasing amounts in the last 100 years. Technology has revolutionized the concept, as before we had microphones, telephones, wiretaps, video cameras, someone would actually need to trespass to violate your privacy. For example, you would need to actually be in someone?s house to eavesdrop on his or her conversation without technological help[1]. Privacy protection can be looked at as how far society can intrude into a person?s personal affairs.
As Artificial intelligence, abbreviated as AI, becomes more and more complex, so do the concerns and stigma surrounding it. AI is defined by Merriam-Webster (n.d.) as "the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior." Between Siri, Spotify and Amazon suggestions, and spam filters on e-mail services, AI has already worked itself in our everyday lives. As AI progresses, we can see it used in self-driving vehicles, taking over tedious human jobs, or as a companion in life. AI worries many everyday people and well-educated scientists. Many worry that AI will somehow take over humanity and the media's portrayal of advanced AI only inflames this fear. Many scientists believe that if AI does take over, it won't be in the traditional