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Smart cellphone would spend your money
According to an article in New Scientist read about in SMS savvy Mobile Tracker, a new consortium called VCE has lined up the world's top consumer electronics firms, mobile networks and broadcasters (including Nokia, Sony, Vodafone and the BBC) to fund the development of cellphones that will, get this, spend money on your behalf, thanks to butler-type software agents. Who on earth needs help spending money? A scary thought and quote: "agents deciding for themselves what they think you need". Earlier this week there was an article in the BBC on an artificial intelligence program (also described as a mobile butler) which runs on cellphones developped by the University of Southampton. "This software is also able to determine users' preferences using the web to plan business and social events and is able to arrange times and appointments for meetings, using the local university database, based on the interests of a visitor". |
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