• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    3 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.

    • Varyk
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      3 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”.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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        3 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.