From HAL 9000 to Westworld’s Dolores: the pop culture robots that influenced smart voice assistants
- Written by Justine Humphry, Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
HBOLast year, nearly one third of Australian adults owned a smart speaker device allowing them to call on “Alexa” or “Siri”. Now, with more time spent indoors due to COVID-19, smart voice assistants may be playing even bigger roles in people’s lives.
But not everyone embraces them. In our paper published in New Media...