“Siri, Apple’s just-released digital personal assistant, may be an artificial personality born of lines of code, but she is also very much a lady, judged by her voice.
In very general terms, robots tend to fall into one of the three categories of male-identified, masculine-seeming, or just androgynous. But there is one genre of AI that tilts the other way, that tends to be female: the disembodied voice. The rough rule seems to be that corporeal inventions are male — particularly if they are killing someone, either on screen or in the military — and the non-corporeal are female (although there are plenty of exceptions, notably, Rosie, the Jetson’s maid, who, it bears repeating, was a maid).”
^ Stukje uit een artikel op theatlantic.com: Siri and Her Girls: Why So Many Robot Helpers Are Ladies.
Bizar eigenlijk, nooit over nagedacht. De auteur haalt d’r eigen theorie onderuit door alvast aan te geven dat er plenty of exceptions zijn, maar alsnog wel een interessant gegeven. Vraag me af hoe dat proces werkt, qua vormgeving etc zodra de techniek eenmaal rond is.
Eva Brands ('87) uit Rotterdam.
