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People Choose Artificial
Intelligence Over Other People
By: Daniel Mai
Class: ENG 2420, Fall 2016
12/6/2016
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Current Popular A.I.s
Apple’s Siri
Microsoft’s Cortana
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Xiaoice
• Artificial Intelligence by Microsoft
• Chat bot
• Exists to “lend a ear”
• Over 40 Million Active Users
• 10 Million Users have said “I Love You”
• Deep Learning A.I.
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What causes this to happen?
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1. Human Beings are lonely
creatures, A.I.s are points of
comfort.
Claim #1
2. People don’t realize that the
A.I.s are not human
Claim #2
Alan Turing
Computer Scientist
• Created the Turing Test in 1950s
• Test comprised of 2 People and 1 Computer
• Through a series of questions, identify the
computer
• Predicted 70% would choose wrong
• In a 2014 University of Reading Competition,
33% of judges were fooled.
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3. A.I.s are easier to deal with
than actual people.
Claim #3
Sherry Turkle
Alone Together
• “A forty-four-year-old woman says, “After all,
we never know how another person really
feels. People put on a good face. Robots
would be safer.” A thirty-year-old man
remarks, “I’d rather talk to a robot. Friends
can be exhausting. The robot will always be
there for me. And whenever I’m done, I can
walk away.”
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So What?
Human : A.I. relationships can be bad.
 It does not fix the problem.
Sherry Turkle:
 “And I worried whether losing oneself in world within the machine would distract us from
facing our problems in the real.”
Michelle Zhou:
 Former IBM research scientist
 Xiaoice as an illusionary proof
Sources
 Markoff, John, and Paul Mozur. "For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone
Program." The New York Times. The New York Times, 03 Aug. 2015. Web. 05 Dec. 2016.
 Cappella, Nicky. "Xiaoice: The AI with 10 Million Declarations of Love." The Stack. The
Stack, 05 Feb. 2016. Web. 05 Dec. 2016.
 Turkle, Sherry. "Connectivity And Its Discontents." Alone Together: Why We Expect More
from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic, 2011. N. pag. Print.
 "Turing Test." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2016.
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By: Daniel Mai
Class: ENG 2420, Fall 2016
12/6/2016