Talk to Me Pdf

ISBN: B07PGZV8SC
Title: Talk to Me Pdf How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think

A New York Times Magazine writer explores the Next Big Thing in tech - the impending revolution in voice recognition - and shows how it will upend Silicon Valley and transform how we use computers, the Web, and much more. 

Every decade or so brings a seismic shift in how people interact with tech, from the PC to the internet to the smartphone. James Vlahos shows that we are on the cusp of the next shift: to voice computing. Siri and Alexa are early forms of this technology, but the day is coming when we'll talk as fluently with our phones, appliances, cars, etc. as we do with any human. 

Vlahos explains the enormous AI challenges that voice computing presents, and unpacks its vast economic, cultural, and psychological impact. He reveals how Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other titans are competing fiercely to create the new voice-driven interfaces. Amazon has devoted an entire secret building to their efforts, and other companies are making similarly huge plays. 

Vlahos doesn't shy away from the troubling questions that voice computing raises. Will people become emotionally dependent on lifelike computers? Will we confide in them in ways that further erode our privacy? Will they deepen our addiction to all things digital? We are on the verge of a transformation as big as the iPhone. Talk to Me will help us get ready.

The one book to read on the voice computing revolution! In the fifth chapter of his excellent book, Vlahos playfully invites the reader to skip ahead to chapter six if he wants to avoid the deeper dive into the technology of conversational AI. Don’t do it! The account of artificial neural networks that allows machines to learn does go deep, including such seemingly arcane matters as backpropagation, but here as elsewhere, Vlahos is a careful guide—he knows when we might get lost (or drown), when we need a recapitulation, an example or two. So even though the subject is challenging, the book is always fun to read.Vlahos gives us what feels like an insider account of the feverish research activity of the last few years. He has done his homework—read aand summarized some of the key theoretical essays, interviewed many of the key players (some of whom supply admiring comments for the book jacket), gone to and spoken at the professional conferences. Fittingly, In a book which is about the search to create a human sounding voice, Vlahos has no difficulty in projecting his own humane voice as a writer. We get glimpses of his family life, and a very moving account of his building a “dadbot” as a way of holding onto the memory his late father. He is enthusiastic about the promise of machine learning, but uneasy about the way voice AI blurs boundaries between the human and non-human. The Turing test hovers over this book as it does over any serious treatment of artificial intelligence, but as Vlahos suggests, the terms of the test have changed. It is no longer a simple opposition, the human on one side of the screen and the machine on the other side. Now that machines can learn without being programmed it is harder to keep the two categories distinct; we can see that human learning is like the pattern recognition of the computers or building up of scripts that guide us in figuring out how the world work. In one of his many interesting asides, he notes that computers sometimes have an advantage in creativity, the very realms that we might think are alien to them. Computers come up with nonsense, but also advertising slogans and haiku that are indistinguishable from “real” (written by humans). Heady stuff and Vlahos is a great guide through it all.What a future coming NOW If you are not an IT expert or know-it-all computer software tech, this book will bring you up to speed with what is coming out to the general public--and it is fascinating. I couldn't help chuckling, laughing, commenting all the while I read it because it could just turn my world on its ear. Easy to understand, Vlahos has done a great job of presenting a technical subject from the point of view of a layman. If you are seeing people walking around with ear pieces in, looking at cell phones, etc. this will tell you where our choice of communications is going and why. Kinda like the difference between saddling a horse or driving a car. I've recommended it to many. Good job, Vlahos.

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