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Voice-controlled British navy computers

lundi 18 septembre 2017 à 02:00

The British navy is adopting voice control for computers.

I hope they are not going to privatize this and let a foreign company track what the crew ask the computer on ships. But that is not the only risk here.

Some decades ago I saw a movie in which there was a naval standoff between a US ship and a Soviet ship. The US captain told someone else on the bridge (a journalist?), "If they fire one, we'll fire one". A bridge crewman heard the last two words, took them for an order ("Fire one!"), and fired a missile, thus starting a war.

Soon a computer could really do this.