• Varyk
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      4 months ago

      Yes, that’s what I said…

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        So you agree that Kurzweil’s 1999 prediction that by 2009 most consumer to business transactions would be with a virtual assistant that includes a realist human head was wrong.

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          4 months ago

          You’re misquoting the prediction to change parameters again.

          This part:

          “Most routine business transactions (purchases, travel, reservations) take place between a human and a virtual personality.”

          is obviously correct.

          “Often, the virtual presentation includes an animated visual presence that looks like a human face”

          I guess this would also be correct, unless you are misinterpreting “often” to mean “most”.

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            4 months ago

            You already argued that a webpage saying, “Thank you for your order.” Is an example of a virtual personality. However that was already refuted because websites did that before Kurzweil made his prediction in 1999. Therefore that isn’t what Kurzweil meant by a virtual personality.