Anonymous ID: bfbce5 March 11, 2019, 11:35 a.m. No.5625610   🗄️.is đź”—kun

It won’t be easy, because our brains are culturally programmed for a world that sees gender as strictly male or female. “It is because Q is likely to play with our minds that it is important,” says Kristina Hultgren, a linguist who wasn’t involved in the research. “It plays with our urge to put people into boxes and therefore has the potential to push people’s boundaries and broaden their horizons.”

Whether tech companies embrace the idea is to be seen. Even if they do, don’t expect them to fully embrace Q. “As much as I like the idea of a gender-neutral AI, I find it really hard to imagine it being a default thing in five years,” says Kistvad. “It would be great, but for me it would be like a utopia—I don't know if it's even realistic.”

The danger of AI and robotics is that human designers infuse their technologies with their own biases. But the beauty of AI and robotics is that if we start having honest conversations about those biases and stereotypes, we can shape a rapidly changing technological future to be not only more inclusive but thought-provoking. And the vanguard leading us there sounds a lot like Q.

 

https://www.wired.com/story/the-genderless-digital-voice-the-world-needs-right-now/