“One Fine Day Your Car Will Also Start to Speak”: Automotive Voices as Promises of Machine Intelligence (2022)
Männistö-Funk, Tiina (Author)
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Pages: 117-138
Edition Details: Special Issue: Tools to Generate or to Solve Crises? Perspectives on Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
The first half of the 1980s saw a talking cars fad. Several manufacturers provided models that could remind their driver of things like open doors and low fuel, making use of newly available speech synthesis technology. Talking cars were not intelligent but, as this article demonstrates, they carried and negotiated the idea of machine intelligence. They were part of the cultural anticipation of artificial intelligence, reproduced by intelligent robot cars in media representations as well as repeated promises of thinking and talking machines by both developers and manufacturers. This cultural context made talking cars alluring, but also disappointing. They triggered questions of control that today are topical again in the discussions regarding autonomous vehicles.
...MoreArticle Poser, Stefan (2022) Introduction: Tools to Generate or to Solve Crises? Perspectives on Robots and Artificial Intelligence. Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 9-14).
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