Alexa and Google Home have capacity to predict if a couple are struggling and can interrupt arguments, finds study

armedandgayngerous:

veraxplus:

roboticsappreciationsociety:

Virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home have the capacity to analyse how happy and healthy a couple’s relationship is, research has found.

In-home listening devices will soon be able to judge how functional relationships are as well as interrupt an argument with an idea for how to resolve it, the study said.

The research, by Imperial College Business School, stated that within the next two to three years, digital assistants could predict with 75 per cent accuracy the likelihood of a relationship or marriage being a success.

The technology would reach a verdict through acoustic analysis of communication between couples – examining everything from everyday encounters to arguments.

The virtual assistants would then be able to provide relationship advice and what researchers refer to as democratising counselling.

I LOVE HAVING AN ALWAYS-ON WIRETAP THAT CAN ASCERTAIN THE STATE OF MY INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND GIVE JUDGEMENT THEREUPON

yfw “my home AI thinks we should see other people” might be how a girl breaks up with you in the future

Alexa and Google Home have capacity to predict if a couple are struggling and can interrupt arguments, finds study

vajussy:

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sincerelymady:

There’s this girl at my school and she’s really nice and I remember sometime last year at one point she would carry a clicker around and click it everytime she had a happy thought/something good happened/she laughed etc.
It was always kind of cute how you’d just hear the little click every once in a while throughout class it always made me smile knowing that it was bc something made her feel happy idk

she was training herself to be happy oh my god

does it work???? Imagine feeling yourself slipping into depression and you just click a few times and your brain says “wait, this is the sound of happiness I have to release serotonin”

She fucking Pavlov’d herself, the absolute madwoman

alwaysbeenjess:

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