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Re:Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid into an ... by asimuvPR on Monday April 18, 2016 @08:26AM (#11519339)
This makes me think a little. The Echo is an appliance. Should I thank my microwave? Or say please after pressing the start button on it? Where do machines stop being treated as such? What do you think is a reasonable approach to this?
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Re:Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid into an ... by FussyZeus on Monday April 18, 2016 @08:39AM (#11519418)
I frequently catch myself saying "please" to Siri and Cortana. I have no idea why, guess I was just brought up that way.

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Re:Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid into an ... by mcphage on Monday April 18, 2016 @11:09AM (#11520504)
> What do you think is a reasonable approach to this?

I think that machines / software we interact with via natural language voice interfaces is probably a good first step. Maybe as we get more used to them—and thus are more used to distinguishing between talking to software and talking to people, we could drop such social niceties.

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