{"id":1913,"date":"2017-09-01T17:15:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2018-09-27T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:03:10","slug":"lauren-smart-human-intelligence-for-the-home-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/thoughts\/lauren-smart-human-intelligence-for-the-home-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"LAUREN \u2013 Smart (human) intelligence for the home assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-lauren.com\/simple.html\">LAUREN<\/a> is a project by new media artist Lauren McCarthy. She will impersonate a home automation assistant not unlike Amazon&#8217;s Alexia, responding to users&#8217; vocal commands and acting on their connected domestic environment. Project Lauren will last 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/miriam-dbl.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lauren will control your home for you, attempting to get better than an AI, understanding you as a person&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon it is a no brainer for Lauren the HI (human intelligence) to be better than Alexa or Siri, examples mentioned by the artist on the project&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers might feel more morally observed than by an artificial assistant, and may have to deal with interruptions of service due to naps or other very human breaks.<\/p>\n<p>You can apply <a href=\"https:\/\/get-lauren.com\/simple.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> if you are interested in hosting Lauren in your home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">&#8212; Why do I blog about that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have an ongoing interest in the way machines and humans roles overlap or shift, takeover, resistance, harmony, symbiosis. Power, delegation, cyber-isation. Lauren is an interesting gesture that reminds us about the unique -as yet- touch humans can bring to other humans in a way machines cannot. My own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/amirobot\/\"><strong>Am I Robot<\/strong><\/a> installation works on a similar principle of injecting HI in a system normally driven by AI or simpler algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wizardOfOzControlRoom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wizardOfOzControlRoom.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wizardOfOzControlRoom-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>The Wizard of Oz, HI trickster, exposed by Toto's down to earth DI (dog intelligence)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUREN is a project by new media artist Lauren McCarthy. She will impersonate a home automation assistant not unlike Amazon&#8217;s Alexia, responding to users&#8217; vocal commands and acting on their connected domestic environment. Project Lauren will last 3 days. &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Lauren will control your home for you, attempting to get better than an AI, understanding you as a person&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}