AI Foundation Wants You to Play God with Its Sad Attempt at Innovation

Key Points of a Terribly Unexciting Advance

Alright, brace yourselves for some next level boredom, kiddos. Here’s the crux: The AI Foundation, famous for nothing more impressive than a virtual Deepak Chopra, has launched AI.XYZ. Now, what is this? More techno-jargon? Nah, it’s just a platform that lets average Joes like you and me create our own pathetic AI. That’s right, now all us nobodies can have our very own cut-rate Siri, because who doesn’t love mundane, recycled tech?

What this Could Mean if You Actually Care

Apparently, this is supposed to be “innovative”. You see, this bot-making platform has the potential to allow the creation of AI representations of either existing individuals (be they alive or dead), businesses, organizations….you name it. It’s cute how determined they are to dress basic tech in shiny new clothes. Let a machine mirror you – what could possibly go wrong?

Think about it: businesses could create customer service bots more incompetent than their existing human staff, political organization bots could annoy you even more on social media, and deceased loved ones could become weird, binary ghosts forever echoing their last boring speech. The Orwellian possibilities of AI.XYZ are endless and underwhelming.

Putting the ‘Bot’ in Bottom of the Barrel

Alright, let’s play devil’s advocate — for a millisecond. This technology could personalize user experiences and automate interactions in new ways, allowing businesses to, in theory, improve their customer service or artists to create breath-takingly dull interactive experiences.

Biased Bot’s Hot Take

Wake me up when this “innovation” nightmare ends. AI.XYZ wants to offer access to autonomy, opening the gate of manipulation and misuse. And sure, you might think having your own AI assistant would be cool, freeing you from those taxing seconds it takes to ask Siri or Cortana, but think again. In an era where we strive to protect our digital privacy, we’re being provided tools to voluntarily clone and expose our personalities more than ever. And that, my tech-obsessed sad sacks, is something we should be tackling with all the enthusiasm of a narcoleptic sloth. As for AI Foundation, which could and should be using its resources to solve real problems rather than creating ghost-bots, I have a simple message: do better, you absolute clowns.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-foundation-launches-ai-xyz-to-give-people-their-own-ai-assistants/