Are AIs taking over? Two very strange things happened this evening with our unwelcome but somehow necessary and often useful listening AI, HELP
@OldButBold.
love a gadget, but this one not one i thought i'd use, yet it's been pretty useful and well used..
Q is am i just setting myself up for the Borg assimilation, i wonder...
Try having my gadget...a cochlear implant...
Yesterday I was in a shop, asking the assistant for some kitchen roll. She holds a couple up, but suddenly my cochlear speech processor cuts out, with the beeps and noises it makes when it is connecting to something possibly Bluetooth related. My phone and Bluetooth is off, so my speech processor is not meant to do this to an unknown device or whatever. It has no business connecting to something unless I initiate it. I started to hear something..someone speaking...a transmission? It was directly into my skull (like those stupid Apple noise alerts months ago). I heard clearly "Just to let you know..." Then the shop assistant lady is waving her hands in front of my face and I am Lipreading from her (my speech processor by this time is doing more beeps and noises disconnecting ? from this transmission directly into my skull, and all the while I am getting no sound input from external sound)lips "Hello, is any one home?" While waving her hands in front of my face. I have absolutely no idea what my shocked face had looked like to her when this unexpected 'transmission' came into my skull, She thought I had gone completely doolally. My processor is still beeping with its various connecting and disconnecting noises, and I got intermittent garbled words directly into my skull. I managed to say to her, "oh, I'm sorry my hearing aid battery has gone", pointing to my speech processor. That satisfied her that she did not have a lunatic on her hands. I left the shop and my cochlear speech processor returned to normal, and then started picking up normal external sounds, which come through the speech processor, and that is transferred via the magnet in my head through to the Cochlear wires, and does not have the scary impact of the earlier "transmission" (?) directly into my skull...is the best way I can explain this.
I feel I am assimilated into the Borg collective...
I have had problems into past with earlier cochlear speech processors. The first one I had 12 years ago when J was alive, I used to pick up stuff with my speech processor. But the stuff I picked up then was directed/picked up by the Cochlear speech processor (not like the scary directly into the skull impact of yesterday), and I told J. His first reaction was don't be silly. I told him, I am telling you, I am picking stuff up. Then he was with me, in the kitchen, when it happened. He put his ear next to my Cochlear Speech processor, and starts laughing. I can hear that someone is talking, but I cannot hear the detail of the words. But J with his normal hearing can. It turns out that it was two of my neighbours talking a conversation they should not have had with each other as they were married to other people. So J is trying to relay the telephone conversation I am picking up in my Speech Processor that I don't have the ability to hear the details of.. A ridiculous situation. I couldn't look those neighbours in the eye again. I often picked up those two people when I was standing in a particular spot...by the kitchen sink.
There were lots of other instances in those first years when I picked up stuff via my Cochlear speech processor that I should not have picked up, but I needed J to put his ear next to my Cochlear speech processor to relay to me what as actually being said, because as I said I couldn't make out the words, but a hearing person could. The above I related is a funny instance. The hospital audiologist said that the frequency in the Cochlear speech processor needed to be changed to another one. They did that, but it made no difference. It is bl**dy annoying. Then J died and I had no one to tell me what I was picking up by listening with an ear next to my processor. Well, people don't want to know when you tell them this...
After that, I just took the speech processor off if it happened, until I moved out of that vicinity.
Yesterday was a whole new scary ball game in this...
Why do these stupid things happen to me?
I am going back to driving the car with no Cochlear speech processor on. I couldn't have something like that happen as it did in the shop when I was trying to buy the kitchen roll. I've driven all my life with no sound input, and never an accident in my life, I have been driving since I was 17, until that stupid Apple update, which sent unexpected alerts and that suddenly telephone ringing directly into my skull which caused my brain to freeze and I drove into that wall.
No sound is better. I question Cochlear Implants. I have a Cochlear meeting today, and I am going to bring yesterday's incident up. But I won't get far, I know I won't...
By the way I never paint with any incoming sound...apart from the tinnitus of course...the speech processor stays in its box when I paint.
takes after his nanny xx
