Siri

What is the point of living my life when I can’t make my own decisions?

The Berkeley Forum announced its Fall 2021 lineup of 12 events featuring panels and speakers from a variety of different fields and disciplines.

Deep below Morrison Hall, quadraphonic artist Suzanne Ciani sat in a soundproof recording studio reciting strings of non sequiturs with varying intonations to train a deepfake program.

This year, I am practicing being grateful for everything around me, including the experiences I’ve taken for granted in the past.

Looking back at the nine months I spent in Berkeley this year, I don’t think I ever, not once, inhabited a phoneless space — lecture hall, library, dorm room, lounge, cafeteria, lawn, public bathroom or otherwise.

Your voice-commanded systems, such as Siri and Alexa, could be secretly listening to someone else’s commands without your knowledge, as concluded by a recent computer security study conducted by UC Berkeley researchers.

Siri — a form of artificial intelligence used in iPhones — can understand a lot; however, if you ask Siri if it "grasps" the concepts lobbed its way, the intelligence reveals its artificiality.