, launched in 2020, is a fitness band that monitors the tone of your voice. Wellness is no longer just the tracking of a heartbeat or the counting of steps, but the way we come across to those around us. Algorithmic therapeutic tools are being developed to predict and prevent negative behavior.
Two decades on, OurFamilyWizard has been used by around a million people and gained court approval across the US. In 2015 it launched in the UK and a year later in Australia. It’s now in 75 countries; similar products include coParenter, Cozi, Amicable, and TalkingParents.
Deferring to an app for such emotionally fraught negotiations is not without issues. Kissoon was conscious not to allow the ToneMeter to score parents on how positive or negative they seem, and Karpf says he has seen a definite effect on users’ behavior. “The communications become more robotic,” he says. “You’re now writing for an audience, right?”
Timmons is expanding on these models to look at family dynamics, with a focus on improving bonds between parents and children. TIES is developing mobile apps that aim to passively sense positive interactions using smartphones, Fitbits, and Apple Watches . First, the data is collected—predominantly heart rate, tone of voice, and language. The hardware also senses physical activity and whether the parent and child are together or apart.
At the TIES lab, Timmons says that no data is sold or shared, except in instances relating to harm or abuse. She believes it is important that the scientists developing these technologies think about possible misuses: “It’s the joint responsibility of the scientific community with lawmakers and the public to establish the acceptable limits and bounds within this space.”
The Gottmans too, are stepping into the AI realm. In 2018, they founded a startup, Affective Software, to create an online platform for relationship assessment and guidance. It started from an IRL interaction; a friendship that was sparked many years ago when Julie Gottman met Rafael Lisitsa, a Microsoft veteran, as they collected their daughters at the school gates.
For the Gottmans, who were inspired by the fact that so many couples are stuck on their smartphones anyway, technology opens up a way to democratize counseling. “People are becoming much more comfortable with technology as a language,” says Gottman. “And as a tool to improve their lives in all kinds of ways.”already everywhere. It could be impacting your relationships without you noticing.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. Omar N. Bradley
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience. Omar N. Bradley
We live in a world of nuclear giants & ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom & forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. -Omar N. Bradley
They don't really know for sure, just sense it and react instead of responding.
the best way to predict the future is by creating it 🤷♂️〰️ my 2c - we’ll believe a lot less of the visual content we see. It’ll be less about the facts and more about who can tell the most compelling story.
This is all kinds of stupid.
it's all very very stupid. Are there still somewhere (where it still matters) people re people in charge or is it only people (traitors, useful idiots) re Mammon et Co.?
Well, that's no good. I'll do my own writing.
Fatigue
If we are trying to cope with it, how can AI interpret that? Why would we need such a thing?
No wonder magazines are failing. I remember when pc mags tried to write a story not to piss off Microsoft or Apple
Then Blade Runner 2049 happens.
No
Depends who owns the AI.
We need to keep our minds open to new ideas, but work heavily on the implementation - this is a tool and how we use it will be the answer. It should be helpful for sport lovers. But security and protection of data need to be ensured on all levels.
A slippery slope but interesting. Keeping an open mind.
Say no to relationship AI. Don’t click to use suggested greetings and responses. Live and create your own persona. Share more and be more sincere with people you call friends and family.
It already knows. It’s too late.
Wasn’t this sexist when applied to teen pregnancies prediction?
No they are not being developed for that and they won't do that.
Ewww. Creepy. My feelings are mine. Back off, AI.
This is a bad idea
That doesn't sound dystopian at all.
Oh good, future crime software. Nothing bad could happen though
Suggest me something good to watch then
AI doesn't know sh.t how i feel. 😜
I don't know,it glows red?
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