Nick Heer is impressed with Alexa+, except:
But there is no part of me that would ever want Alexa or any other voice-controlled assistant buying tickets to a show, or booking a vacation rental, or even buying groceries.
I also don’t trust AI for this. And yet, in 1995 a lot of people didn’t trust entering credit cards on the web. I’m open to the possibility that in 10 years, AI buying things for us will be normal.
@manton Call me old-fashioned (or just plain old), but I still don't trust credit cards on the web. They have the advantage of being encrypted, however. AI+ has no such encryption guarantee. If buying things in 10 years will be "normal," it's only because people who are younger now will have grown up with this stuff and have no privacy concerns whatsoever, as most young people do today. Saying "it will all be normal soon" is a pretty dangerous argument IMO.
@apoorplayer It's a good point that with credit cards, we did have the advance of secure connections and seeing the little secure badge in your web browser. I'm not even sure what the equivalent would be for AI trust. It might always be a leap of faith.
@manton It sounds like he is most concerned about the agentic aspects, which I think a lot of people are going to have trouble getting used to.
@manton.org It sounds like he is most concerned about the agentic aspects, which I think a lot of people are going to have trouble getting used to.
@mineinmono.net Yep. I think agents have the potential to be much more dangerous than generative AI that exists today, unless humans remain firmly in control.
@mineinmono.net Yep. I think agents have the potential to be much more dangerous than generative AI that exists today, unless humans remain firmly in control.
@manton The only reason we trust entering credit card info into the web is because of the strong consumer protection laws around them. No such laws for debit cards. No such laws for credit cards in Japan, so they act very differently with them.
Maybe we need strong laws protecting consumers from bad AI nonsense.
