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I’m sorry friend, this is where I get off. You are assuming the police officer will always be faster than the attacker… I don’t know where we go from here. Thank you for the conversation.
It is his job and duty not to. If he arrived to the welfare check and immediately turned around and left…?
Even though this is a cherry picked argument - a melee weapon - I’m not sure it will help your point. Cops get stabbed, man. It happens even with their shoot first training.
Wow. There are literally zero details in this article and everyone has labeled the cop a murderer. What a thankless, shit job, police. Could it not have been that the officer arrived on scene to an armed individual who then attempted to murder him? He’s conducting a welfare check, the person he’s checking on may not be all there… Both the checker and the checkee are humans and matter here!
Which is where I and the rest of the ACAB folks will probably start to agree - cops shouldn’t be the ones responding to these calls. The hard part is that sending unarmed social workers into dangerous scenarios is not the answer either. Tough problem to solve. World’s not perfect. Give your fellow human the benefit of the doubt, though. Not every cop is a murderous bastard, and thinking that way isn’t helping anyone except tickling your own smug feelings. It’s also a sweeping generalization, something that’s both foolish and frowned upon these days. This an appeal to the humanity in all of you - quit writing off humans with a single acronym. You are removing their humanity and labelling them a monster. We can look to history to learn from the same mistake.
That’s really exactly what this is - a virtual assistant - but with capabilities beyond what the current virtual assistants offer. On top of that, the end user can easily teach it new tasks, something current assistants lack. Current assistants are limited to their very limited established featuresets and integrations, while this tech allows the user to create their own integrations with little to no technical skill.
Now who knows how well it works in practice - but in theory, I could absolutely see this taking off for a large segment of the population. I see this as significantly more efficient than using a smartphone if the tech works. For example - flights - I could manually check and compare prices and layovers, enter all my information into a form with a smartphone keyboard, navigate each page, confirm, etc, which would take minimum a few minutes, or I could ask this AI to do that for me with a sentence. Tapping glass will one day be a thing of the past, and this is the biggest step I’ve seen in that direction. Competency will be the key here.