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It "feels revolutionary" to the author, but it is literally only capable of handling the simplest restaurant and hair salon reservations (the kind of thing you
by Omnus 8y ago
It "feels revolutionary" to the author, but it is literally only capable of handling the simplest restaurant and hair salon reservations (the kind of thing you could do yourself in about 90 seconds). Seems like a silly headline, although the details are interesting.
- bitpush 8y agoIts all simple in retrospect. The classic case, obviously, is Dropbox where HN dismissed it as 'its just rsync. What's the big deal'.
- scarface74 8y agoAt the end of the day, Dropbox is becoming more of a feature than a product as Steve Jobs said. For the $9.99 a month that Dropbox costs for a terabyte, you can get Office 365 that includes One Drive for 1Tb each for up to 5 users.
- Jyaif 8y agoIt must feel at least a little bit revolutionary since half the internet was saying that the demo was faked.
- adtac 8y agoProbably the best compliment Google could get.
- Omnus 8y agoPeople were fooled by hype, a usual occurrence with new "AI" technology. That says nothing about how "revolutionary" it is.
- bitpush 8y agoTechnology should aim to solve problems both big and small. If all we did was life-extension and deep space exploration, nobody would be solving problems we have today -- tracking how much food we eat automatically or how much fuel should be injected into the engine based on driving conditions/style. You might think this isnt new "AI" technology, but as others have showed this is the first time we've seen an "AI" tech convincing masses that it is real human using voice.
- munificent 8y ago> (the kind of thing you could do yourself in about 90 seconds) I can also walk over to my kitchen, stepping around the dogs and cats, and pour a glass of milk in about 90 seconds too, but a robot that can reliably do that would be pretty damn revolutionary. Don't underestimate the insane quantity of wetware computation going on during a short conversation.
- hartator 8y agoApart if you need to set it up for half an hour, and it fails 10% of the time, you just get up and get your glass of milk.
- jacobsenscott 8y agoActually it fails at least 20% of the time. Your floor cleaning robot will fail at cleaning it up 20% of the time. I'm not good at math, but I think that means you'll be spending 95% of your milk drinking time cleaning your floor...
- Omnus 8y agoWhat on Earth are you talking about? The point was not that anything humans can do within 90 seconds is non-revolutionary when implemented in machines. An artist can create something unique and beautiful in 90 seconds, and a mathematician can explain a short yet difficult proof in 90 seconds. Those things would absolutely be revolutionary if implemented in machines. Who cares about the quantity of computation? As if that matters for how "revolutionary" a software technology is. It is entirely unclear to me that a bot that might make simple reservations at small group of establishments that include only restaurants and hair salons is in any way revolutionary. Even if it worked 100% of the time, who is making daily hair and restaurant reservations that would benefit from the extra 90 seconds? It's silly the amount of hype this is eliciting. You have a very strange definition of "revolutionary".
- chrisoverzero 8y ago> […] who is making daily hair and restaurant reservations that would benefit from the extra 90 seconds? The wealthy have had assistants since practically time immemorial, and no one bats an eye at their "90 seconds". The promise of this tool is a democratization of both the convenience and the normalcy.