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All that glitters is not gold Artificial intelligence can help us in our daily lives. We use AI every day when we use our smartphones, for example. But there are also a number of problems AI brings about, therefore we should be careful of how we use artificial intelligence. Reading: Problems with intelligent machines a) Read the short articles on AI below and find a suitable headline for each one. There is one headline too many. cb3i9a 7 Everything is becoming more and more expensive Will you have a job tomorrow? Is your toy spying on you? Anyone might know where you are newsweblink.com 1 hour ago 1. Problems with AI 37 Navigation apps are among the most popular apps people use every day. It’s so easy: your smartphone has a GPS-tracker and therefore always knows your exact position. The navigation app uploads that position to the servers of the navigation company. There, the company has all the important information: which streets are closed at the moment or where the most traffic is right now. AI then finds the quickest route to where you want to go. And off you go. Wait … Your smartphone always knows your exact position. And this position is uploaded to the navigation company. So other people also know your exact position. It’s not your friends or family; it’s people that you don’t know at all. And are you sure that only the navigation app uploads your position? A number of apps upload your position to company servers, and you don’t even know about it. Do you really want that? 5 10 newsweblink.com 4 hour ago 2. Problems with AI 148 Have you ever seen a soft toy that can talk to you, a “smart” toy that can really talk to you? It doesn’t just say, “I like you,” or, “I want to play with you,” all the time, but it knows your name, it knows what you look like, and it gives real answers to your questions. It is amazing if you see it for the first time, and kids just love a soft toy that really talks to them. But, actually, such a toy is quite problematic. A toy can only really talk to you if it sees you and hears you through a camera and a microphone. Of course, it’s also connected to the internet through WiFi. The soft toy then records whatever you do and say, and uploads all the information to the servers of the toy company. There, AI analyses the information and thinks of a response to what you’ve said. It sends this back to the toy, and the toy “really” answers to you. To be a “real friend” the toy might ask you for your name, your age and even your address. And this is then all uploaded to strangers … 5 10 28 3 Unit Intelligent machines twenty-eight N ur zu P üfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv