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For me, the primary takeaway was: "This suggests that future AI products cannot be solely focused on voice and will need a private messaging interface as well."

by chime 10y ago

For me, the primary takeaway was: "This suggests that future AI products cannot be solely focused on voice and will need a private messaging interface as well." > This preference for text communication over voice communication fits a pattern we're seeing with Messenger and WhatsApp overall, where the volume of text messaging around the world is growing much faster than the volume of voice communication. This suggests that future AI products cannot be solely focused on voice and will need a private messaging interface as well. Once you're enabling private messaging, it's much better to use a platform like Messenger than to build a new app from scratch. I have always been optimistic about AI bots, but my experience with Jarvis has made me even more optimistic that we'll all communicate with bots like Jarvis in the future. I've noticed that myself with Siri. I avoided using it for years but finally gave in and enabled full Siri access so I can ask simple questions when the phone is locked. Our nightly lows in Florida have been all over the place lately and my birds prefer to stay in the porch when it's 65F or higher but if it's lower, I have to bring them indoors. So my most common question is: "Hey Siri, what's the low temperature for tonight?" Unlocking the phone, swiping right, clicking on the weather icon, waiting, and then parsing the screen to locate the low temperature is a lot more involved. However, now that I have Siri, I try to use it for more things via voice but it doesn't always work because (1) Siri is not that good, (2) it is awkward to try to find out what exact words to use for Siri, in front of other people, and (3) there is no autosuggest for search when speaking, which helps a lot when manually typing. Personally, I don't think voice + text is enough. Facial/body gesture recognition will definitely have a part to play in this long-term.

Ajedi32 10y ago
I personally liked this statement: > One thing that surprised me about my communication with Jarvis is that when I have the choice of either speaking or texting, I text much more than I would have expected. This is for a number of reasons, but mostly it feels less disturbing to people around me. If I'm doing something that relates to them, like playing music for all of us, then speaking feels fine, but most of the time text feels more appropriate. I've found myself doing the same thing. For queries and commands which involve only myself I prefer to type unless I'm alone, but for questions which involve the people around me asking verbally seems more useful.
avoutthere 10y ago
Anybody remember that NeXTMail included voice annotations? Seeing that feature almost never used made me realize that text for messaging will always have its place.
rthille 10y ago
I think a display in my bathroom (smart mirror style) which would alert me if the night's low would be low enough to bring the birds in would work best for me. Plus maybe a push alert to my phone if the temp got low and I hadn't ack'd the alert on the smart mirror. But then I tend to brush my teeth before getting undressed :-)

by chime 10y ago

Ajedi32 10y ago

I personally liked this statement: > One thing that surprised me about my communication with Jarvis is that when I have the choice of either speaking or texting, I text much more than I would have expected. This is for a number of reasons, but mostly it feels less disturbing to people around me. If I'm doing something that relates to them, like playing music for all of us, then speaking feels fine, but most of the time text feels more appropriate. I've found myself doing the same thing. For queries and commands which involve only myself I prefer to type unless I'm alone, but for questions which involve the people around me asking verbally seems more useful.

avoutthere 10y ago

Anybody remember that NeXTMail included voice annotations? Seeing that feature almost never used made me realize that text for messaging will always have its place.

rthille 10y ago

I think a display in my bathroom (smart mirror style) which would alert me if the night's low would be low enough to bring the birds in would work best for me. Plus maybe a push alert to my phone if the temp got low and I hadn't ack'd the alert on the smart mirror. But then I tend to brush my teeth before getting undressed :-)