V-2nd and always: the animate and the machine now and in the future

[Mark Kohut]

many people now say Thank You when they are done using speech recognition technology...
 
"To anyone who’s ever been stuck screaming at an electronic person on the telephone, this will sounds like a nightmare. But the New York Times says as computers become more adept at recognizing and understanding human speech, “our young children and grandchildren will think it is completely natural to talk to machines that look at them and understand them.”