Friday, November 22, 2024

Age of AI

Google

Google was one of the very first steps when it came to ai production, it was a simple company that let people ask questions and they would receive many different answers that they could look into. The company started out thriving for a while until the .com crash. The company founders were desperate and needed a way to keep it alive, so they gathered data from the answers that were provided used that data that people received to help other companies to keep theirs alive. I think personally that Google knowing what we like and dislike is not a bad thing because it gives us recommendations based on our searching history and what we look up all the time as interests. However, there are way more cons than pros to this because it is also taking personal information and storing that in a data bank that Google owns, this includes personal information and other information that we would not want companies to have access to. I think this scary to think about because its basically letting me know that it has all my information and it can use it at any time and I wouldn't even know it, it also has personal information and that is just frightening to think about. Just from the segment when they were talking about Google, there are already many takeaways from this such as you should be careful with what you put out on the internet because that can be used as data by Google depending what you search up.



Voice Recognition


Alexa is another example of advancements in Ai production. It helps us with just being able to use our voice to ask for things rather than having to type it in on a computer or in google. It also has voice recognition that way Alexa recognizes who is speaking at any time. This may seem like a good thing and it does have its benefits, but this is actually quite scary to think about considering "how does Alexa always know what I sound like". Alexa records our voices and no matter whether our voices are either scratchy or if were in the middle of coughing while we are speaking. Alexa will be able to recognize the person that is speaking at all times. That is because it stores that data of the person's voice just like how Google stores information of what we look up. So Alexa is basically storing very personal information into the company. Not only that, but it also stores the information of what we ask Alexa every time we talk to it. I think that this is really important to note because if our voices are stored into data, its very possible for our voices to be used as identity theft and as someone imposing as us because our voices were recorded, it's just as bad as our personal information getting stored. 


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