Don’t ask me, ask my AI
In an article published in Wired magazine, journalist David Pierce extols the intelligence and capabilities of digital assistants. In particular, he discusses a new app, currently at prototype stage called Hound. Created by the company behind the music recognition app SoundHound, Hound takes voice recognition and artificial intelligence to a whole new level. According to Pierce, when asked a variety of questions in increasing complexity, and with follow-up questions, Hound responded accurately every time.
This is great, but we can’t help but wonder how long it will take before such AI will be infultrated by marketing strategies. Just as Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) taps into our online activity to predict and influence our future purchases, just how long will it be until brands start paying off our digital assistants?
How will we be able to trust our portable gurus to provide us with sound, unbiased information? And how will it offer unbiased answers to political questions – something that the media still cannot achieve? Only time will tell, but we confess that we’re looking forward to the day that AI can help with elusive search for the perfect wardrobe. Gotta love technology.