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Una miriade di oggetti smart fanno parte della nostra vita. Ma cosa significa "smart"? Quali sono i vantaggi del farsi supportare da strumenti intelligenti? Quali sono i punti di debolezza degli apparecchi che, mentre ci aiutano, registrano e sorvegliano la nostra quotidianità? Il caso emblematico di Hello Barbie, la Barbie che ha vinto il Big Brother Award nel 2015.

This is one of the sweeties and most touching Panels of TusCon 50 and sadly the last for one of our favorite Cons please enjoy  Hello Barbie! Let's Go Party and Subvert the Narrative by the fantastic Rhoynish Turtle Conservation Society! Recorded live at TusCon 50 11/13/2023 https://tusconscificon.com/timetable/event/rhoynish-turtle-conservation-society-hello-barbie-lets-go-party-and-subvert-the-narrative/ No one could have predicted the record shattering success of the Barbie Movie. Fueled by word of mouth and thinkpieces, the film's debut captured the zeitgeist and unleashed a fashion moment. More than that, it launched a thousand discussions between friends and fans, exploring philosophy, feminism, and what it means to be “kenough.” We'll jump into a fantastic conversation and unpack this glamour in pink. Panelists: Tanya Gouchenour, Madame Askew, Jen Senft, Ashley Smith, Shelby McBride Ashley Smith, Linktree Jen Senft, Rhoynish Turtle Conservation Society https://www.facebook.com/rhoynishturtleCS Tanya Gouchenour  Rhoynish Turtle Conservation Society https://www.facebook.com/rhoynishturtleCS Shelby McBride, https://www.facebook.com/hippocketcreations Madame Askew   https://www.facebook.com/MadameAskew https://www.patreon.com/MadameAskew/posts https://linktr.ee/MadameAskew     And a huge Thank you to the TusCon Board, Panelists, Volunteers, and fantastic Con Suite hosts! Chek out more about TusCon at https://tusconscificon.com/ Please support our shows at www.patreon.com/cppn and even join us in some games! Also keep an eye at the new things on our now affiliated Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/creativeplayandpodcast Also follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CreativePlayandPodcastNetwork Would you be interested if we hosted D&D and Edge of Empire games on Roll20 for you to join? Email us at Creativeplaypodcastnet@Gmail.com #TusCon50

ATC Ep.126 Hello Barbie, Let's Get SnubbedOn today's episode we discuss whether or not Barbie was snubbed at the Oscars. Questions, and comments and book purchases:http://tiny.cc/ukudvzTwitter:https://twitter.com/NShaneMillerLocals:https://nathanshanemiller.locals.comFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/nathanshanemillerhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3pPg8GRCY95d61QLTNUXFQ/featured

You can't go anywhere without hearing reviews on Barbie and Oppenheimer. While we are both rocking pink nails because, uh duh, Hello Barbie! We are currently re-watching Queen Charlotte while we wait impatiently for the 3rd installment of Bridgerton to return. The tea is hot and the scenes are hotter so we were wondering, shall we promenade?Original Episode Aired 5/10/2023 Music by:Golden Hour by Vlad Gluschenko https://soundcloud.com/vgl9

Anyone who knows Stefani knows that she is pink OBSESSED. From her hair to her desk, her brand can be summed up (in the words of her Rabbi) as "pink, controversial, and Jewish." So it's no wonder that Stef & Wolf's first post-pandemic trip back to the movie theater was to see Greta Gerwig's summer hit, the Barbie movie. It was slightly more surprising to Wolf to learn exactly what Stefani used to do with her Barbie's back in the day. Listen in as Wolf and Stef talk about the role that these classic toys have in helping children of all genders envision their future adult lives... and unpack some of the ways that the brand has gotten it wrong over the years. Remember the WiFi-enabled Hello Barbie, or the Video Girl Barbie camera? Yeah. This episode is for anyone who has ever watched a child play with their toys and wondered to themselves "what the actual f*@k are they doing?" Show Notes

We are talking about the Barbie movie and why Ryan Gosling took the role and is it okay for your neighbors to walk around naked.

How often do we trust the technology around us? Should we ever? CEO and founder of EMA Advisory Services, Elizabeth Adams wants to know – especially as it relates to AI surveillance. Smart phones, social media, and facial and voice recognition are commonplace for many. But do we know what, if any, ethical considerations shaped their development? That's why Elizabeth is on a mission to fight for ethical, human-centric AI. Join us as we uncover hard truths about the role civic tech plays in our communities.    Key Takeaways: [1:56] Elizabeth, a long-time technologist, shares how she came to be involved in the ethical use of AI. After being part of the working poor for many years, she made a decision to focus on giving a voice to the voiceless. [4:31] How does bias get coded into facial recognition? Systems are sold and trained by law enforcement that can be biased in a way that shows Black and Brown people as more suspicious. This can do irreversible harm to communities that are traditionally discriminated against. [6:00] It's not just facial recognition technology that can be biased and ultimately harmful, it can be other computer vision technologies as well.  Elizabeth discusses the example of how an infrared thermometer used during COVID picked up a firearm image more in darker-skinned users than lighter-skinned ones. When this type of technology is in the hands of governing bodies, this kind of AI can be dangerous to civilians. [6:20] Elizabeth's work with AI is first and foremost about making tech, especially surveillance tech, safe for citizens. That work took root in the city of Minneapolis, where she zeroed in on civic tech initiatives. Elizabeth explains that civic tech is when the government and the community work together on a shared leadership decision around what technology should be used to help govern society. [7:27] Elizabeth discusses the coalition POSTME (Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology and Military Equipment) that she founded in Minneapolis. The murder of George Floyd by former police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020 sent a shockwave across the world. One that resulted in public demand for greater accountability and oversight of the way citizens, and especially communities of color, are policed. As a technologist focused on civic tech, Elizabeth uses her expertise, coupled with the power of advocacy, to make changes to the kinds of tech that police in Minneapolis can use. [10:41] Often, those doing the surveillance are too removed from those being policed. This is especially dangerous for black and brown communities. Because if the police don't know the people they're supposed to be serving, they often fail to distinguish between who is a threat, and who isn't. [13:49] Clearview AI is a facial recognition technology designed for use by law enforcement. When it was adopted by the city of Minneapolis, Elizabeth's coalition discovered the tech was using data in clearly unethical ways. In February of this year, the Minneapolis City Council banned the use and voted unanimously to ban the use of facial recognition technology. Although challenging, this was a big win for Elizabeth and her team. [16:01] So what business does AI-driven facial recognition have in the hands of the law? Elizabeth explains how it could be used for good including everything from helping recover someone lost with dementia, and to identify the perpetrator of a crime. [19:18] Whether it's an issue of bias coded into the AI itself, or just in those using it, we need more attention to the way we govern it, and that needs to start from the design. [20:11] As consumers, we trust new technologies too easily and forget to think about who may be harmed by them. Elizabeth gives the example of Hello Barbie, which was discontinued in 2015 after the AI was powered in a way that could not only speak to kids but listen to them too. [23:02] Elizabeth and other leading technologists have given so much to society but no one has asked what they have given up. Time, educational goals, and personal moments with family all sometimes get lessened by the time it takes to create new and ethical AI that is safe for everyone. [25:20] With endless opportunities to innovate, we need to ask what is its purpose, and who is it serving? How can it bring us together, and who may it potentially hurt?   Quotes: “I made a decision that I would definitely focus on those who are the voiceless, those who have no seat at the table and have no decision-making power or shared decision-making power at the table.” - [2:23] Elizabeth “It starts in the design session with the data. And if the data is not diverse, then the system output will not be able to identify diverse people.” - [4:50] Elizabeth “Often, those doing the surveillance are too removed from those being policed.” - [10:41] Jo “I don't think that we can live in a world post 9/11 here in the US without some sort of surveillance. However, it needs to be ethical. It needs to be explainable. It needs to be trustworthy and transparent. There needs to be some oversight.” - [19:45] Elizabeth “We aren't going to get away from technology, so why not make it as safe as possible?” - [21:57] Elizabeth “With endless opportunities for tech companies to innovate with AI, we all need to start asking more pointed questions about its purpose, and who exactly it's serving.” - [25:40] Jo “The future of ethical AI is going to be determined by our ability and willingness to ask big questions. So we need people in every corner of every industry asking: Is this technology safe? Do we understand how it uses our data? Does it have our permission to use it? Did it even ask us? And if it does, if we say yes, it needs to be because it serves a purpose. Because it serves us all.” - [27:03] Jo   Continue on your journey: pega.com/podcast   Mentioned: Elizabeth Adams: Twitter | LinkedIn EMA Advisory Services Safety Not Surveillance Coalition Joy Buolamwini Coded Bias

Welcome (or welcome back) to Mind Over Chatter, the Cambridge University Podcast! One series at a time, we break down complex issues into simple questions. In this second series, we're talking all about the future. We'll explore the nature of time itself - What even is the future? And is it in front of or behind us? - and we'll also cover some of today's most pressing questions, like how will artificial intelligence impact democracy?We're going to be talking to people from all over the University of Cambridge… from linguists and philosophers to historians, biologists, demographers and many more besides!We'll cover everything: from the physics of time to Sapir-Whorf, the first linguistic theory to join Starfleet; from the fabulous fabulations of futures past to Elon Musk, Mars, and James' measly net worth; from the future of wellbeing and mental health to an overabundance of Pop Tarts; from using participatory research to help create a more just future to the unequal distribution of My Little Ponies; from the future of artificial intelligence to animism and Hello Barbie; and from the future of reproduction to the maternal instincts of Darth Vader.Please take our survey.How did you find us? Do you want more Mind Over Chatter in your life? Less? We want to know. So we put together this survey. If you could please take a few minutes to fill it out, it would be a big help.

James Vlahos is the founder of Hereafter AI, a company that enables anyone to create a chatbot avatar of a real person. James' interest in chatbots started in the 1980s on a Commodore PET computer and was rekindled in 2015 when, as a reporter, he wrote a story about PullString's work on Hello Barbie. That led to him creating Dadbot, a chatbot that captured the memories and thoughts of his father that at the time was battling Stage IV cancer.  After completing a book on tech's many decades of voice assistant innovation called Talk to Me, James founded Hereafter AI in 2019. We discuss what he learned from his early experience with rudimentary chabot designs of the 1980s and how his experience building a chatbot to memorialize his father offered unique insights into the tradeoffs of these types of endeavors. We cover a series of questions James has not been asked before and he offers some interesting insights that will be of value to any voice assistant designer.  James earned a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. Over his career, he has written for many publications including The New York Times, GQ, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic Adventure, and WIRED. 

In this episode, Teri welcomes James Vlahos, Founder and CEO at HereAfter, a company that uses conversational AI to help people save and interactively share life stories so that they never have to lose the voices of people they love.Welcome, James!HereAfter is an AI platform designed to allow people to have spoken "conversations" with loved ones who have passed away, based on voice recordings taken while they are still alive. The conversations are made possible by platforms like Amazon Alexa. James is also the creator of DADBOT, a veteran tech journalist for The New York Times, and author of “Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think” His book addresses the economic, cultural, and psychological impact of conversational AI and how it’s altering our traditional perception of human consciousness.His Tech JournalismHe wrote about diverse technology oriented topics, from the HyperLoop to businesses using smell to lure customers into making purchases.From 2015, he developed an interest in Siri and Alexa because he was fascinated by the fact that what we had been learning from science fiction about personified beings who could have conversations with us was actually becoming a reality.He wanted to write about the two voice assistants but ended up approaching it from a different angle, instead writing about how Hello Barbie was created by a company called PullString. PullString was acquired by Apple.For him, writing about that was a great way to get into how to create a dialogue system and teach a computer how to talk. It led him deeper into voice technology.Writing His BookWhen he did the Hello Barbie project, he could see that it was just the tip of the iceberg, and he could see that Amazon, Apple, and Google were battling each other in the voice technology race, and so he knew there was great potential in the space.He realized he couldn’t just fit everything about voice technology into an article so he decided to put it in a book.HereAfterHe was inspired to create it when his late father was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and had a few months to live.James did a conventional oral history project with his father, recording him talking all about his life. He got hours of recordings and had them professionally transcribed.Around the same time, he was involved in conversational AI while researching for his book, and he realized that voice technology was a new way to share those recordings of his father in such a way that he could somehow hold on to him even after he had passed way.He created a conversational app that could be accessed on Facebook Messenger. One could create messages on the app and get audio/video clips from it. He called it the DADBOT.DADBOT has been the basis for everything he has worked on and created ever since.They are working on making HereAfter a scalable technology that anyone can use. They are on Amazon Alexa exclusively and expect to be on Google Assistant soon.They have received mixed feedback from the market. For example, most people want to wait before they record their memories, almost like how people always put off writing a will.Signing Up on HereAfterOne starts by signing up for the service, after which they are orally interviewed by someone in the company.The company then records the person’s life story in a very structured manner with the end product in mind.The audio is then edited and put into the HereAfter system so that when an end user asks a question about that person via Alexa, they hear that person’s voice answering them from the actual recording of that person.They are currently developing an app that will do the interviewing.HereAfter has positively impacted families and enabled them to capture the life stories of their loved ones for the benefit of their present and future family members.Remembrance Versus ReplicationScience fiction movies like HER show us a world where people can have relationships with AI beings on their phones and other devices, which brings up the question of whether we could possibly continue relationships with loved ones who have passed away through technologies like HereAfter.James reiterates that HereAfter is just an advanced tool for remembrance rather than for replication.List of resources mentioned in this episodeHereAfter WebsiteJames on LinkedinThe Comprehensive Flash Briefing Formula CourseThe Voice DenVocalID.aiOther useful resources:Voice in Canada: The Flash BriefingComplete List of Alexa CommandsAlexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in CanadaTeri Fisher on TwitterAlexa in Canada on TwitterAlexa in Canada Facebook PageAlexa in Canada Community Group on FacebookAlexa in Canada on InstagramPlease leave a review on iTunesShopping on Amazon.ca See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Conversations avec...un article. C'est 10-15 minutes où je rends compte d'un article scientifique récent paru dans une revue en sciences humaines et sociales. Épisode 4 : Les poupées connectées et pourquoi elles parlent aux enfants. L'article original dont je rends compte : Valerie Steeves, "A dialogic analysis of Hello Barbie's conversations with children", Big Data & Society, 7(1), 2020. --------- Les autres références universitaires citées (ou oubliées) : **Sur la ventriloquie énonciative** : Marie-Anne Paveau, "Parler du burkini sans les concernées. De l'énonciation ventriloqu" sur "La pensée du discours" [carnet de recherche], 17/08/2016, https://penseedudiscours.hypotheses.org/4734, consulté le 7/5/2020. **Sur le langage, le sens et le contexte** : Bruno Ambroise et Sandra Laugier (eds), Philosophie du langage. Sens, usages et contexte, Vrin, 2011. **Sur la conversation et la voix** : Olivier Ertzscheid, "La voix du web", affordance [carnet de recherche], 28/03/2012, https://affordance.typepad.com/mon_weblog/2012/03/la-voix-du-web.html, consulté le 7/05/2012. Marc Jahjah, "L'annotation comme "conversation" (2/3) Qu'est-ce qu'une conversation ?" sur marcjahjah.net [carnet de recherche], 13/12/2019, http://www.marcjahjah.net/3340-lannotation-comme-conversation2-3-quest-ce-quune-conversation#Voir_le_visible, consulté le 7/5/2020. Nicolas Sauret, "La conversation, expérimentation d'un format éditorial", sur nicolassauret.net [carnet de recherche, 18/01/2018, http://nicolassauret.net/carnet/2018/01/18/la-conversation-experimentation-dun-format-editorial/, consulté le 7/5/2018.

To get more info, take an exclusive Barbie quiz, and get all the episode's links and videos, check out 10FactsAboutToday.comToday is National Barbie Day.Everyone knows that Barbie’s boyfriend is Ken. But in real life. Ken is actually based on Barbie’s younger brother.Barbie went to space in 1965 - 4 years before Buzz and Neil.Barbie was co-designed by a missile engineer named Jack Ryan.Barbie has run for president six times.Barbie is from Wisconsin, not Malibu.The most expensive Barbie sold for more than $300,000.A Barbie doll is sold every three seconds.Barbie is named after matel co-founders daughter Barbara.Barbie is largely credited as having the first commercial aimed at kids.A Siri-like Barbie, named “Hello Barbie” was once accused of spying on her owners.Bonus Facts:Over the years, Barbie has had over 200 careers and 40 different pets.Barbie helped kick start Mila Kunis’ career.

https://www.goethe.de/en/spr/mag/dsk/21290629.html Welcome to another episode of my Podcast Business German BGP - dated 21 Sep 2018 After a long break because I travelled to Germany I am back now in Australia - based at the Gold Coast in Burleigh as you might remember. Here a short intro of the author of the text I am going to introduce to you today: Frau Lotze is specialized on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the interaction of humans and machine interfaces - id est computer or machines or robots. AUTORIN Dr. Netaya Lotze ist Sprachwissenschaftlerin mit Schwerpunkt „Neue Medien“ und Akademische Rätin an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Sie studierte Germanistik und Philosophie und promovierte mit einer Dissertation zum Thema Interaktion mit künstlichen Intelligenzen. Copyright: Goethe-Institut e. V., Redaktion Magazin Sprache Mai 2018 EN - Intro only Artificial intelligence is on the rise – as can be seen not only from the growing popularity of dialogue systems like Alexa. However, some key criteria still need to be met before it can serve as a substitute for a real-life language teacher: spontaneity, creativity and shared knowledge. Artificial intelligence (AI) with a written or oral interface is supposed to make our lives easier in future. Assistants such as Siri (Apple) and Galaxy (Samsung) already allow smartphone functions to be operated via language recognition and synthesis software, while Amazon’s Alexa dialogue systems will soon be controlling our smart homes: companies based in Silicon Valley paint a vision of the future in which intuitive language interaction with a virtual interlocutor plays a vital role. AI is not only used to give a verbal command to one’s smartphone to play a particular playlist, but also features in far more complex scenarios such as online games and interactive toys with a language interface (like Mattel’s Hello Barbie), and as virtual tutors in e-learning environments (such as the virtual tutor Ed the Bot in SAP learning software). It therefore seems natural to take advantage of innovative technologies in foreign language teaching, too. They are able to make learning possible anywhere and at any time. Commercial providers and non-commercial institutions are developing applications that follow (and combine) entirely different technical approaches. This article provides a critical overview that will help to differentiate between them. DE - Intro only Künstliche Intelligenzen sind auf dem Vormarsch – was sich nicht nur an der zunehmenden Beliebtheit von Dialog-Software wie Alexa ablesen lässt. Doch um beim Sprachunterricht reale Lehrpersonen ablösen zu können, fehlen entscheidende Kriterien: Spontanität, Kreativität und geteiltes Wissen. Sie sollen in Zukunft unseren Alltag erleichtern – künstliche Intelligenzen (KIs) mit schriftlich oder mündlich bedienbarem Sprachinterface. Durch Assistenzsysteme wie Siri (Apple) oder Galaxy (Samsung) lassen sich unter Einsatz von Spracherkennungs- und Synthese-Software Funktionen auf dem Smartphone bedienen, die Dialog-Software Alexa (Amazon) steuert schon bald das Smarthome: Silicon-Valley-Konzerne zeichnen eine Zukunftsvision, aus der die intuitive sprachliche Interaktion mit dem virtuellen Gegenüber nicht mehr wegzudenken ist. Und KIs werden nicht nur eingesetzt, um mündlich dem Handy den Befehl zu geben eine Playlist abzuspielen, sondern in wesentlich komplexeren Szenarien wie Online-Spielen, interaktivem Spielzeug mit Sprachinterface (wie Mattels Hello Barbie) oder als virtuelle Tutoren in E-Learning-Umgebungen (etwa als virtueller Tutor Ed the Bot in einer Lernsoftware zu SAP). Es liegt also nahe, innovative Technologien auch für den Fremdsprachenunterricht nutzbar zu machen. Sie sollen das Lernen überall und jederzeit ermöglichen. Dabei werden von kommerziellen Anbietern und nicht-kommerziellen Institutionen Anwendungen entwickelt, die völlig verschiedene technische Herangehensweisen verfolgen (und kombinieren). Eine kritische Übersich --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/phbloecker/message

This week, we speak to conversation design master, Oren Jacob, about what it takes to create successful conversations with technology.There are so many complexities in human conversation. When creating an Alexa Skill or Google Assistant Action, most designers try to mimic human conversation. Google itself has taken steps in this direction with the fabricated ‘mm hmm’ moments with Google Duplex.But does all of this have an actual impact on the user experience? Does it make it better or worse? How natural is natural enough and does it matter?What other factors contribute to conversation design that works?PullString CEO and co-founder, Oren Jacob answers all in this week's episode.In this episode on conversation designWe get deep into conversation design this week and discuss things like:How natural should conversations with voice assistants be?Why you shouldn't just try to mimic human conversationThe power of voice and what tools designers need to create compelling personasWhether you should you use the built in text-to-speech (TTS) synthetic voice or record your own dialogueHow any why writing dialogue is entirely different from writing to be readThe similarities and differences between making a film and creating a conversational experience on a voice first deviceThe limitations and opportunities for improved audio capability and sound designThe importance of having an equal balance of creative and technical talent in teamsWhat it all means for brands and why you should start figuring that out nowOur guestOren Jacob, co-founder and CEO of Pullstring. Oren has worked in the space in between creativity and technology for two decades.After spending 20 years working at Pixar on some of the company's classic films such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo, Oren created ToyTalk.ToyTalk was a company that allowed kids to interact with their toys through voice.As voice technology progressed and voice assistants and smart speakers were shaping up to take the world by storm, ToyTalk morphed into PullString, the enterprise-grade conversation design platform.About PullstringFor over half a decade, PullString's platform, software, and tools have been used to build some of the biggest and best computer conversation in market, with use cases and verticals as diverse as hospitality to home improvement and Hello Barbie to Destiny 2. It was also used to create, the latest in big-ticket skills, HBO 's Westworld: The Maze.Where to listeniTunes/Apple podcastsSpotifyStitcherTuneIniHeartRadioPippaYouTubeAny other podcast player you use or ask Any Pod to play VUX World on AlexaLinksVisit the PullString webisteFollow PullString on TwitterRead more about how the Westworld skill was createdCheck out the details of the talk Oren will be giving at the VOICE Summit 18Check out the details of Daniel Sinto's demo of PullString Conversehappening at the VOICE Summit 18Check out the VOICE Summit website See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Oren Jacob saw Star Wars as a kid, and fell in love with the idea of bringing together technology and storytelling to create something entirely new.   Today, he’s the cofounder and CEO of PullString, a tech startup that teaches software how to have conversation. That could mean helping companies build an Alexa skill for Amazon’s Echo, or allowing Hello Barbie to talk. I caught up with Oren at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, where he spoke to leaders in the tech world about laying the groundwork for the future of voice interaction with computers.   He told me how his early fascination with Star Wars led him to an internship and first career at Pixar – before he decided to start his own thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Jen and Alvaro talk about some current events and some basic reverse engineering projects they’ve worked on. Some of the topics covered were: Radiolab episode Vintage computer festival where Jen found @foone for all your floppy needs. Reverse Engineering PCB’s with a synchrotron Alvaro’s Keyboard Reverse Engineering project but more information on HID USB is on this page including tools and values sent to keyboard data. Jen’s Hello Barbie project but also Digital Dress Barbie (Barbie’s first wearable!). Jen used the TL866A USB Universal Minipro Programmer Somerset Recon Barbie RE http://binvis.io/ What is ABI? Get caught up here. Getting started with Reverse Engineering? Checkout https://challenges.re/ Have comments or suggested names for the show? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or hit us up at on the comment form.

Von Cookie-Law, über Hello Barbie hin zum Datenschutz, wir haben Peter Hense von Spirit Legal LLP Fragen rund um Internetrecht gestellt und geben so einen Überblick, was ist erlaubt und was muss beachtet werden. Peter Hense ist Fachanwalt für IT, Datenschutz, Marken- und Wettbewerbsrecht, Travel Industry Law und kennte sich mit Vernetztem Spielzeug aus.

Adam Doupé and Heather Ross discuss how to give the gift of cybersecurity this holiday season to protect your loved ones from the cybersecurity risks that their well-intentioned holiday gifts may incur. Topics cover installing security updates, passwords, password managers, and VPNs. For your last-minute cybersecurity gifting needs, download our gift certificate coupon sheets at https://riskinnovation.asu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/FutureThink-2016_Gift_of_Cybersecurity.pdf. (Don't be shy about re-gifting this for Birthdays, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Arbor Day...you get the idea.) •Internet-connected Hello Barbie doll can be hacked: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3012220/security/internet-connected-hello-barbie-doll-can-be-hacked.html •A password managing app can help you to keep all of your accounts and data secure: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lastpass-password-manager/id324613447?mt=8 •The Google Authenticator app can help you to set up two-factor authentication: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-authenticator/id388497605?mt=8

The O'Reilly Design Podcast: The VUI tools ecosystems, and voice gender and accent selections.In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Cathy Pearl, director of user experience at Sensely and author of Designing Voice User Interfaces. We talk about defining conversations, the growing tools ecosystems, and how voice has lessened our screen obsession.Here are a few highlights from our conversation: What constitutes a conversation? To me, I do have a definition of ‘conversational.’ I was talking about this at O’Reilly Bot Day last week. For example: my Amazon Echo. I don’t view the Amazon Echo generally as conversational because most of the things I do are one-offs. I’ll say, ‘What time is it?’ or ‘Turn on the lights’ or ‘Set a timer,’ and she’ll give me one response, and we’re done. If I go up to you and say, ‘How are you doing today?’ and you say, ‘Fine,’ and then we turn and walk away, I don’t really see that as having a conversation. That would not be a very good conversation. One of my definitions for ‘conversational’ is that it has to have more than one turn. A lot of times, with a lot of these voice assistants—let’s say, you can do multiple turns but they don’t remember what you said before. Each turn is like a brand-new conversation, which would be really annoying if you were talking to somebody and every time you said something, they didn’t remember anything you told them before. In relation to that, they really need to understand pronouns. This is something that humans or toddlers can understand. I can tell a toddler to, ‘Go get the red ball out of the green box,’ and it knows it. The kid knows that I want the red ball. Computers have a really hard time with that. It’s starting to improve. Google, especially, I think, is working hard on this task. I've heard that with Google Home, they’re going to be better about that kind of thing, but those are some of the things I think systems need to be conversational, and that could be either through voice or through text. Designing for how people talk not how you want them to talk My biggest principle and advice is to design for how people actually talk and not how you want them to talk. I think as designers and developers, we get very focused on whatever we’re building, and we think it’s very obvious: ‘Yes, the user will know what they can say here.’ It’s really not true. Especially if you're designing something like a virtual assistant, like Siri. She says, ‘How can I help you?’ That really sets up the user for failure in a lot of cases because you really can’t just say anything. There’s a limited number of things you can say. We need to spend a lot of time thinking about how will we communicate with the user, what they can actually say. There’s different ways to do that. One thing that’s really important is when you're first designing your system, spend a lot of time writing what we call sample dialogues, which are essentially back-and-forth conversations, like a film script between the voice user interface and the user. You write these down. Then, you read them out loud with somebody. You learn very quickly—if I wrote the system and I am reading my voice user interface prompts, and then I have someone else responding, I learn very quickly, ‘Really, someone would say that? I didn’t expect that.’ You can really build your system well from the beginning by doing some simple design exercises like that. Another thing that’s really important to understand about voice is that speech recognition is not perfect. Yes, it’s way, way, way, way better than it used to be, but it still makes a lot of mistakes. You have to build a graceful error recovery into every voice system no matter what. I don’t think, personally, that it will ever be a 100%. Accurate human speech recognition is certainly not 100% accurate. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about your error recovery. The tools ecosystem I’m actually very excited right now because I think we’re starting to see a lot of tools actually come out, and I’m looking forward to learning a lot of them. For example, there’s a company called PullString. They used to be called ToyTalk. They made the Hello Barbie and some kids’ apps like the Winston Show. They just put out an authoring tool. I downloaded it. I'm really looking forward to trying that for creating new sample dialogues, new stories. Then, there are things like TinCan.ai out of Conversant Labs, which I think will be really great for doing prototyping, which is something we’re solely lacking in the real world, the ability to do quick prototyping. Then, you’ve got a mixture other tools from places like API.AI, which was bought by Google; Nuance’s Mix; Wit.ai, which is Facebook. These allow you to build models by giving a lot of sample sentences and having that learned. For example, if you’re trying to build a calendar VUI, you might put a bunch of sample sentences in about how I want to schedule an appointment. It can learn from those examples so that when somebody says something new that you didn’t already write down, it can still understand. I’m just very excited that these tools are finally coming out. It’s always been the Holy Grail of the voice user interface, where we were always trying to build tools at Nuance. It’s very difficult to do. Hopefully, we’re really getting to the point where they’re workable.

The O'Reilly Design Podcast: The VUI tools ecosystems, and voice gender and accent selections.In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Cathy Pearl, director of user experience at Sensely and author of Designing Voice User Interfaces. We talk about defining conversations, the growing tools ecosystems, and how voice has lessened our screen obsession.Here are a few highlights from our conversation: What constitutes a conversation? To me, I do have a definition of ‘conversational.’ I was talking about this at O’Reilly Bot Day last week. For example: my Amazon Echo. I don’t view the Amazon Echo generally as conversational because most of the things I do are one-offs. I’ll say, ‘What time is it?’ or ‘Turn on the lights’ or ‘Set a timer,’ and she’ll give me one response, and we’re done. If I go up to you and say, ‘How are you doing today?’ and you say, ‘Fine,’ and then we turn and walk away, I don’t really see that as having a conversation. That would not be a very good conversation. One of my definitions for ‘conversational’ is that it has to have more than one turn. A lot of times, with a lot of these voice assistants—let’s say, you can do multiple turns but they don’t remember what you said before. Each turn is like a brand-new conversation, which would be really annoying if you were talking to somebody and every time you said something, they didn’t remember anything you told them before. In relation to that, they really need to understand pronouns. This is something that humans or toddlers can understand. I can tell a toddler to, ‘Go get the red ball out of the green box,’ and it knows it. The kid knows that I want the red ball. Computers have a really hard time with that. It’s starting to improve. Google, especially, I think, is working hard on this task. I've heard that with Google Home, they’re going to be better about that kind of thing, but those are some of the things I think systems need to be conversational, and that could be either through voice or through text. Designing for how people talk not how you want them to talk My biggest principle and advice is to design for how people actually talk and not how you want them to talk. I think as designers and developers, we get very focused on whatever we’re building, and we think it’s very obvious: ‘Yes, the user will know what they can say here.’ It’s really not true. Especially if you're designing something like a virtual assistant, like Siri. She says, ‘How can I help you?’ That really sets up the user for failure in a lot of cases because you really can’t just say anything. There’s a limited number of things you can say. We need to spend a lot of time thinking about how will we communicate with the user, what they can actually say. There’s different ways to do that. One thing that’s really important is when you're first designing your system, spend a lot of time writing what we call sample dialogues, which are essentially back-and-forth conversations, like a film script between the voice user interface and the user. You write these down. Then, you read them out loud with somebody. You learn very quickly—if I wrote the system and I am reading my voice user interface prompts, and then I have someone else responding, I learn very quickly, ‘Really, someone would say that? I didn’t expect that.’ You can really build your system well from the beginning by doing some simple design exercises like that. Another thing that’s really important to understand about voice is that speech recognition is not perfect. Yes, it’s way, way, way, way better than it used to be, but it still makes a lot of mistakes. You have to build a graceful error recovery into every voice system no matter what. I don’t think, personally, that it will ever be a 100%. Accurate human speech recognition is certainly not 100% accurate. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about your error recovery. The tools ecosystem I’m actually very excited right now because I think we’re starting to see a lot of tools actually come out, and I’m looking forward to learning a lot of them. For example, there’s a company called PullString. They used to be called ToyTalk. They made the Hello Barbie and some kids’ apps like the Winston Show. They just put out an authoring tool. I downloaded it. I'm really looking forward to trying that for creating new sample dialogues, new stories. Then, there are things like TinCan.ai out of Conversant Labs, which I think will be really great for doing prototyping, which is something we’re solely lacking in the real world, the ability to do quick prototyping. Then, you’ve got a mixture other tools from places like API.AI, which was bought by Google; Nuance’s Mix; Wit.ai, which is Facebook. These allow you to build models by giving a lot of sample sentences and having that learned. For example, if you’re trying to build a calendar VUI, you might put a bunch of sample sentences in about how I want to schedule an appointment. It can learn from those examples so that when somebody says something new that you didn’t already write down, it can still understand. I’m just very excited that these tools are finally coming out. It’s always been the Holy Grail of the voice user interface, where we were always trying to build tools at Nuance. It’s very difficult to do. Hopefully, we’re really getting to the point where they’re workable.

We may be connected, but some say we're not communicating. The consequences could be dire. A U.S. Army major says that social media are breaking up our “band of brothers,” and that soldiers who tweet rather than talk have less cohesion in combat. What's the solution? Maybe more connectivity to jump start conversation? The makers of Hello Barbie say its sophisticated speech recognition system will engage children in conversation. But an alternative strategy is to go cold turkey: sign up for a device-free camp (for adults) or stuff a NoPhone in your pocket, and wean yourself from the real thing. But MIT's Sherry Turkle says there's only one solution: more face-to-face time. Without it, we are in danger of losing our empathy.  Guests: John Spencer – Major in the United States Army, scholar at the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy, West Point. His op-ed, “A Band of Tweeters,” appeared in the New York Times.  Sarah Wulfeck – Head writer and creative director for Hello Barbie Oren Jacob – Chief Executive Officer, ToyTalk  Levi Felix – Founder, Digital Detox, director, Camp Grounded, summer camp for adults Van Gould - Co-founder, NoPhone company Sherry Turkle – Professor, Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT, and author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We may be connected, but some say we’re not communicating.  The consequences could be dire.  A U.S. Army major says that social media are breaking up our “band of brothers,” and that soldiers who tweet rather than talk have less cohesion in combat. What’s the solution?  Maybe more connectivity to jump start conversation? The makers of Hello Barbie say its sophisticated speech recognition system will engage children in conversation.  But an alternative strategy is to go cold turkey: sign up for a device-free camp (for adults) or stuff a NoPhone in your pocket, and wean yourself from the real thing. But MIT’s Sherry Turkle says there’s only one solution: more face-to-face time.  Without it, we are in danger of losing our empathy.  Guests: John Spencer – Major in the United States Army, scholar at the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy, West Point.  His op-ed, “A Band of Tweeters,” appeared in the New York Times.  Sarah Wulfeck – Head writer and creative director for Hello Barbie Oren Jacob – Chief Executive Officer, ToyTalk  Levi Felix – Founder, Digital Detox, director, Camp Grounded, summer camp for adults Van Gould -  Co-founder, NoPhone company Sherry Turkle – Professor, Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT, and author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

Using the artificial intelligence software found in Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana, the Wi-Fi enabled "Hello Barbie" can access around 8,000 lines of conversation and store responses for future reference.

Oren Jacob, former CTO of Pixar and now CEO of Toy Talk talks about changing the landscape with hi tech toys, like the much anticipated chat back Hello Barbie. Katie chats with Sam Roberts about …fall and fire.

For episode 22 of Candy Teeth Radio we invite Ezra Dickinson into the studio to talk about his amazing dance work titled "Mother For You I Made This" where he takes the audience into the streets and alleys of Seattle in a disorienting multimedia experience and what it was like giving a TEDx talk about the piece, how he uses "slow walks" as a form of time travel and meditative practice, public clothes swaps, and the new secret project he can't tell you about. We talk about the amazing Microsoft Gigapixel Art Zoom project that Ezra, Jeremy, and Daniel all appear in that is like a city-wide artist filled Where's Waldo. Daniel takes his intermediate motorcycle training course from a good cop / bad cop pair of instructors, iron pipes have been found in China that are believed to be 150000 years old, Sting makes a comeback with a 100 year old message in a bottle, and the new Hello Barbie records your kids conversations and transmits them to Mattel for "voice recognition software improvement"! Find out more about our guest Ezra Dickinson here: http://ezradickinson.com/ Hit us up with questions for the crew or topics for the show: CandyTeethRadio@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/CandyTeethRadio?fref=ts This episode of Candy Teeth Radio is brought to you by Grit City Grindhouse. gritcitygrindhouse.com https://www.facebook.com/GritCityGrindhouse?fref=ts Join us next week as Daniel's long time friend and tattoo artist Peter Dominguez joins the crew for some stories and laughs! Stay alive!

There's a new Barbie doll coming out that has created a bit of a controversy. We talk about the Internet of Things, privacy and toys. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

This Week on The Don't Eat That! Podcast Another hilarious Parenting Confession Session Weird Parenting traditions from around the world A creepy new toy from toy maker Mattel called 'Hello Barbie'

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Our flashback to 1983 with episode 83 of our live, weekly broadcast has come and gone, and it was definitely a lot of fun. We were joined in-studio by a couple of recurring guests on our show, Steve Gaura from Arrow Strategies and Billy Strawter of Social Coop Media Detroit.  We talked about our Pink Slip Party this Thursday night, what Arrow's seeing in the jobs market, why companies build all of these splintered apps and more... Once our 1983 themed intro wrapped up, we dove into the news, events and stories that have caught our eyes over the past week. From our impending Pink Slip Party to us doubling down on events in April and throughout the rest of the year, we handled a little business first and foremost. Then we dove into the fun news that everything you say to Siri is recorded, packaged, sent back to the Apple mothership and sold off.  So that's awesome.  The new Hello Barbie dolls doing the exact same thing to your kids.  Hertz putting spycams in their rental cars...even if they say they haven't activated them.  Super PI day that happened this past Saturday.  And, of course, much more. In segment two, we dropped in with Steve Gaura from Arrow Strategies to talk about why they've been a sponsor of our Pink Slip Party events ever since...well, ever since we first started accepting sponsors, actually.  We talked about what they'll be looking for Thursday night, a recruiter's take on what you should expect, how you should act, and what you should be looking for at the event.  How to best prepare yourself and handle the interactions with everyone, and a good bit more.  Arrow Strategies can be found at http://arrowstrategies.com/, or, of course, at our event Thursday night. Our third segment dove in with Billy Strawter of Social Coop Media.  It's always great having Billy in, because he's one of the few people that can actually make us understand social media topics without wanting to kill people.  We had some great chats about why companies are building so many splintered apps these days...and the rather annoying trend of apps that aren't happy doing one thing really well, and find themselves sucking when they try to be all things to all people.  They handle clients all over the country, but especially if you're here in the metro Detroit area and trying to get a grip on your social media strategy and make sense of all the nonsense going on these days...we can't possibly recommend Billy and Social Coop Media enough to you.  Go check them out at http://socialcoopmedia.com/ As we always do, our fourth segment doubled back on some earlier topics to amplify things a bit, we covered a few more news stories from the past week, and then wrapped things up for the night. Come join us live and in person Thursday night at The Majestic Theater - looking forward to seeing everyone there! [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196420472" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Arrow Strategies can be found at http://arrowstrategies.com/ Social Coop Media can be found at http://socialcoopmedia.com/ As always, we can be found: On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD  On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD 

After all the outrage over the invention of powdered alcohol, Palcohol has been approved by the Feds and will hit stores soon for kids to put in their juice boxes. At least that’s the fear among parents, educators and doctors. Plus today we reveal the timing for Lisa May to “tell all” about her departure from Los Angeles radio station KROQ. And a guy who ran 52 marathons in 52 weeks explains how you can do that too. Our tech guy gives us a virtual tour of Mt. Everest and he says he’s not into the Apple Watch but he loves the new Mac Book. Manny the Movie guy talks about Cinderella’s particular set of skills for he battle with Liam Neeson for box office primacy. Ms. California United States Sande Charles popped in from Arizona to describe Will Ferrell’s quest to play ever baseball position at training camp. Erin Myers is afraid of the new “Hello Barbie” and you should be too. Something else to be afraid of - the Poopetrator. Chris Mart [...]

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This week on Awesomecast 236, we talk awesome things in technology, including: Hello Barbie from Mattel. (and how that concept could be used for other devices.) Discussion on how early a child should get into tech products. Sorg's quest for streaming music which has lead to Amazon Prime. Thoughts on the recently departed RadioShack. The return of Viewmaster! How "Kill Switches" in phones seems to be working. How Google Helpouts did not help out for long. A Modern Family episode getting very techy. A brief rundown on some other tech news. News on upcoming events. After the show remember to: Eat at Slice on Broadway if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Follow these awesome people on Twitter: John Chichilla (@chilla), Mike Pound (@unclecrappy) and Mike Sorg (@sorgatron). Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.com for more entertainment; and view us livestreaming Tuesdays around 6:30 PM EST!

This week on Awesomecast 236, we talk awesome things in technology, including: Hello Barbie from Mattel. (and how that concept could be used for other devices.) Discussion on how early a child should get into tech products. Sorgâ??s quest for streaming music which has lead to Amazon Prime. Thoughts on the recently departed RadioShack. The return of Viewmaster! How â??Kill Switchesâ?? in phones seems to be working. How Google Helpouts did not help out for long. A Modern Family episode getting very techy. A brief rundown on some other tech news. News on upcoming events. After the show remember to: Eat at Slice on Broadway if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Follow these awesome people on Twitter: John Chichilla (@chilla), Mike Pound (@unclecrappy) and Mike Sorg (@sorgatron). Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.com for more entertainment; and view us livestreaming Tuesdays around 6:30 PM EST!