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Alexa: Play the voice of my grandmother who passed away

The voice assistant has become a company in thousands of homes around the world and is now developing a technology based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that recovers the voice of deceased people and reproduces them through Alexa.

The company announced this work during the re:MARS conference, an event dedicated to machine learning and automation, where it exhibited a demonstration of it.

The person in charge of making it known has been the engineer Rohit Prasad, who has assured that “one of the most surprising things about Alexa is the relationship of fellowship that we have with her”. And although it is now a reality, this type of option was presented in the program, because in the episode Be Right Back It is possible to see how an Artificial Intelligence communicates with Martha, a girl who lost her boyfriend in an accident.

robotic dogs

The evolution of robotics has shown that robots that resemble a dog can be used for different tasks, whether accompanying users in their day-to-day activities or serving as surveillance assistants in logistics centers. The company that has developed this type of equipment the most is Boston Dynamics, however Xiaomi also has prototypes of these dogs.

Part of the aversion that many people have towards these robots is due to the Metalhead episode, where Bella, the protagonist of the episode, runs away from these types of robots.

The goal? the five stars

Each order, trip or service you use asks you for a rating at the end so that the algorithm knows if a person has done a good or bad job and can tell others if a service is worth it. Although this works to prevent users from falling into fraud or a bad experience, it is a situation that is seen to a greater extent in the episode Nosedive, where Hanna becomes obsessed with having the perfect grade, in a world where everyone rates everyone and in the one that thanks to that qualification access benefits or new worlds.

If you feel that this is not a reality, just go to any app and check the status you have and how, based on this, you have more benefits than other people who also use the application.

The age of hypervigilance

Technology has allowed many users to opt for the use of cameras, trackers or apps where the activities of our relatives are tracked in order to have more security, however: what happens when surveillance is excessive?

A lesson given by the Arkangel episode is to moderate the use of this type of device in order to respect the privacy of our environment.

Metaverse with cybersecurity

The trend that several technology companies are betting on with their new products and verticals is that of the metaverse, however the companies themselves are aware of the need to create standards and be careful in the cybersecurity of the avatars that are used in this type of environment , because they have finally seen in chapters like USS Callister, that the use of avatars in the future can mean the kidnapping of an identity.