Monday, 21 September 2020

I talk to machines every day

One thing I do every day is talk to machines. I talk to my phone and to my smart speaker. 

My smart speaker understands my speech and answers me. My smart speaker is hooked up to an encyclopedia and a dictionary and it is very good a maths and logic. If there is anything I don't know I find out straight away. Someone told me they have fibromyalgia so I said "Alexa, what is fibromyalgia"? The smart speaker then told me what Fibromyalgia is. I was advised to wait 50 days to do something by a doctor  so I asked Alexa what date it will be in 50 days and the smart speaker told me what date it would be straight away. I asked my smart speaker what is 250 divided by 7 is and it told me. Very often when I get home from work I feel frustrated because things always go wrong one way or another so I ask my smart speaker to play Dion Warwick, she was before my time but her voice is very smooth and soothing. Other times I just ask for the news. My smart speaker knows the difference between me and my wife and responds with our names. It says ok Alan here is the news or ok cinthya, here is the news. 

I don't think it would ever understand someone from Birmingham in England, no machine or humans can understand them. They need subtitles when they appear on the news. 

The other day the sun was shining very brightly and I couldn't see my phone screen so I asked Google to turn the screen brightness up 100%, my phone responded by turning the brightness up 100%. When the power went off I asked my phone to turn on the flashlight and it did it, it turned on the flashlight. I also ask my phone things I don't know just like my smart speaker and it answers me. 






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