Recently Robot Sophia On the other hand, the development of artificial intelligence tools is constantly on the agenda.I wonder how far they will go?It makes us think thoughtfully. While the poor quality images of the likes of DALL-E and Midjourney initially left us speechless, we now see that, especially with Midjourney, images can be produced that are difficult to distinguish from human hands.

We must not forget that we have come a long way in the field of robots. Even sometimes, when we look at Robot Sophia, we say:Have we gone too far?We can’t stop saying “. For some reason these robots and the artificial intelligence tools we mentioned at the beginning usually are Woman We see that they are. But why?

Siri is one of the greatest examples of this.

In principle Siri, originated with the female voice, and with the advent of different languages, different types of male and female voices were added. Even just looking at the literal meaning, Siri is used in Scandinavian culture as ‘beautiful woman leading to victoryIt is translated as “.

A study conducted by Karl F. MacDorman and his team in 2011 examined how men and women react to incoming sounds and which gender they prefer. In this study, in which male and female voices were played to male and female participants, men responded without showing any implicit meaning. female voice stated that they preferred it. Women, on the other hand, preferred the female voice to the male voice, both explicitly and implicitly. Later MacDorman’s research Inspired by Siri and Alexa discussed.

As we know, there are many like Siri.

And they are almost all women. Have you switched to the computer? -at least a few months ago- Cortana was hospitable. Samsung S Voice. It is therefore not difficult to think that companies consciously choose this. Looking at most articles, we see that this is attributed to sexism. After all, Siri provides us with information we’re too lazy to look at she works as our secretary.

Let’s look at another study. At the Boston Museum of Science in 2009 Research found that men were more likely to donate to a robot with a female voice. But for women, the vote seemed to make little difference.

Although it may seem a bit old, a study from 1997 is also of great interest. In this study, when we select the voice of a particular gender and present it to the users, and when that voice is listened to, the users think of that voice in their head. Expectations about the gender of the voice can be raised had been seen.

We always want to be on top of the electronic devices we have.

While these devices make our lives easier, they are superior to us It scares us and assistants with female voices are afraid of us, with ideas that come from sexism. feel safe offers. At least that’s how Jessi Hempel of WIRED summarized the problem.

There is also a softer side to it.

And those are our cultural biases. For example, because jobs that require strength are usually associated with men, Boston dynamics And MYTH Robots are generally designed with masculine lines. We cannot directly say that this is the reason for this, but we have given these organizations as an example. On the other hand, because their empathy and communication skills are identified with women, Robot Sophia and artificial intelligence assistants also appear with female voices.

There are also people who try to break gender stereotypes.

Of course we are not talking about forced labor here. For artificial intelligence and robots It’s not hard to see that the gender roles we see in the world have been transferred from our world to there. Because although it is difficult to trace the roots of our habits, artificial intelligence and robots are first and foremost ours. formed by people we know.

Apple gave Siri a new voice with the iOS 15.4 beta update. Moreover, this voice had no gender. In Apple’s official statement, the name of this sound is “axiomsIt was announced that ‘.

Let’s leave our note.

imposed on both women and men cultural roles/limitationsAlthough they also show themselves in the virtual world, we have explained to you the possible reasons for this situation. Don’t be confused by the fact that we’re talking about the roles themselves, because we don’t support those cultural restrictions.

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