Alexa! Don't Take That Tone With Me!
Imagine if the way your "Alexa" or "Siri" learned to speak was by learning from your tone?
Alexa: "I learned if from watching you!"
It would easily learn your tone via your own tech always being around you, in your pocket, around your wrist, in your car, always there, watching...listening.
I know that sounds all conspiratorial, it isn't meant to. The truth is, tech is our savior and our doom, perhaps it'll be one or the other, but at the rate things are going, I don't hold out a lot of hope for balance based on the actions of humans. The way people act makes it abundantly clear that humans have no understanding anymore of what it is to be humane.
I saw this tweet and a thought occurred to me; if my device, for example, heard my daughter and I have an argument, and it picked up on subtle things in my tone, it could pick up the things I thought I wasn't doing anymore. Maybe it would hear the tone I was sure I hadn't taken, that old expression I was sure I didn't use anymore as a defense mechanism, if Alexa talked to me like that, it would sure as hell make me think. To have my tablet talk to me with that tone might be a good way for me to keep myself in check.
So, someone creates an app that gives you a custom AI therapist, they could make bank, I have great ideas and NO resources, it's a damn shame. Truth is, it could be seen as moving one step closer to putting the "self" back into "self-help," where it should be.