People Choose Artificial Intelligence Over Other People By: Daniel Mai Class: ENG 2420, Fall 2016 12/6/2016

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Current Popular A.I.s Apple’s Siri Microsoft’s Cortana https://drishticone.org/article/technology/siri/55e4a22d700b2.png https://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/styles/w800h450crop/public/field/image/2014/04/CORTANA.PNG?itok=SVC6qSAp

Xiaoice Artificial Intelligence by Microsoft Chat bot Exists to “lend a ear” Over 40 Million Active Users 10 Million Users have said “I Love You” Deep Learning A.I. http://socialbrandwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Xiaoice-image.jpg

What causes this to happen? https://arjunsindhu.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/question-mark.png?w=455&h=455

1. Human Beings are lonely creatures, A.I.s are points of comfort. Claim #1

2. People don’t realize that the A.I.s are not human Claim #2

Alan Turing Computer Scientist Created the Turing Test in 1950s Test comprised of 2 People and 1 Computer Through a series of questions, identify the computer Predicted 70% would choose wrong In a 2014 University of Reading Competition, 33% of judges were fooled. http://a2.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fill,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,g_face,h_300,q_80,w_300/MTE5NDg0MDU1MTUzMTE2Njg3.jpg

3. A.I.s are easier to deal with than actual people. Claim #3

Sherry Turkle Alone Together “A forty-four-year-old woman says, “After all, we never know how another person really feels. People put on a good face. Robots would be safer.” A thirty-year-old man remarks, “I’d rather talk to a robot. Friends can be exhausting. The robot will always be there for me. And whenever I’m done, I can walk away.” http://www.pbgtoolkit.com/docs_pbg/1353088148Turkle-Alone_Together_pb.jpg http://www.reclaimingconversationbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Sherry-Turkle-credit-Peter-Urban.jpg

So What? Human : A.I. relationships can be bad. It does not fix the problem. Sherry Turkle: “And I worried whether losing oneself in world within the machine would distract us from facing our problems in the real.” Michelle Zhou: Former IBM research scientist Xiaoice as an illusionary proof

Sources Markoff, John, and Paul Mozur. "For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program." The New York Times. The New York Times, 03 Aug. 2015. Web. 05 Dec. 2016. Cappella, Nicky. "Xiaoice: The AI with 10 Million Declarations of Love." The Stack. The Stack, 05 Feb. 2016. Web. 05 Dec. 2016. Turkle, Sherry. "Connectivity And Its Discontents." Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic, 2011. N. pag. Print. "Turing Test." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2016.

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