RE: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictional?
January 31, 2018 at 8:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2018 at 8:44 pm by uncool.)
(January 31, 2018 at 8:32 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: You should read our rules. Nothing prevents anyone from using insulting language. This isn't a theist forum.
Considering all of the context surrounding this event, namely:
1) The sheer level of tinfoil hattedness it would take to believe that a massive company like Amazon would purposely code Islamic propaganda into their Alexa devices (if your argument is that they didn't, then there would be nothing to be angry about, no?)
2) The current cultural phenomena of nationalistic jingoism and fetishized anti-Islamism.
3) The fact that all it takes to be "controversial" in this day and age is 'someone made a suggestive tweet about it'
I'll slice this one like Occam.
I don't detect the relevance of your response above, because:
- I didn't say Amazon hard-coded it into Alexa. (Machine learning algorithms like "long-Short term memory" networks or "convolutional neural nets" that can be used for parts of Alexa, while partially hard-coded, may be trained to learn abstractions from input spaces of word corpus. Examples of hard coding is the somewhat "tabula-rasa" like base code that learns abstractions from the data. The base code may consist of pre-programming that for eg, resemble the visual cortices, such as a simple hypersurface "W*x+ b " convolved by operator "*".)