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This is a mobile phone without a screen that doesn't make phone calls and won't fit in your pocket. It's nothing more than a desk toy. "Hey Vector" is just "He

This is a mobile phone without a screen that doesn't make phone calls and won't fit in your pocket. It's nothing more than a desk toy. "Hey Vector" is just "Hey Google" or "Hey Siri" or "Hey Alexa". For a lot less money you could just get a Google Home or Amazon Echo (Apple HomePod is a bit more) and they provide more functionality without the useless wheels.

type-2 8y ago
but they're not cute
- BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
  So put a hat and some googly-eye stickers on them?
tjoff 8y ago
Yet I would consider Vector by far the most useful product of them all.
- 0x8BADF00D 8y ago
  Disclaimer: I work for an engineering team at Anki There’s also the privacy aspect of Vector. Anki respects your privacy because your data isn’t used in the same way that it is by Google Home and Alexa (i.e. for ad targeting)
  - Ancalagon 8y ago
    Hows the work/life there? I briefly considered applying but havent gotten around to it.
  - x0054 8y ago
    Are you considering adding app capability : SDK? Also, do you need entry level ML people?
- BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
  Most useful how? What exactly does it do that is more useful than the other things that do more? (Full disclosure: I very strongly suspect that you're lying.)
  - tjoff 8y ago
    Well, for one I don't consider the alternative mentioned systems to be particularly useful. And I would strongly object to living in the same apartment/house as one. I have not (and probably will not) research in what sense the privacy of this device is better but from what little I've seen it is at least better. And if not I can't imagine Anki being less trustworthy than the others. I see it as a furby, which can be a little neat. Wouldn't buy it though.
nikofeyn 8y ago
what is wrong with being a toy? you are oversimplifying the situation by reducing this toy to its components. it's like calling a furby a terrible and uncomfortable electronic pillow. it doesn't even make sense. and you conveniently ignored the coolest factor of vector, and that is it's soon to be released sdk. plus, what is possibly fun and cute about amazon echo and google home just sitting there doing nothing but being the ears of companies scheming on how to sell us more shit?
- BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
  > what is wrong with being a toy? There's nothing wrong with toys. There's everything wrong with a "Super smart alive and aware AI" hype fest when what they mean is it's a partially functional google assistant with a pareidolic face. > what is possibly fun and cute about amazon echo and google home just sitting there doing nothing https://www.reddit.com/r/eyebombing/comments/5nttde/google_home_xpost_rgooglehome/ https://www.reddit.com/r/eyebombing/comments/5nttde/google_h... Boom, solved. Look at how adorable that is. You could even put a hat on it.
  - nikofeyn 8y ago
    yeah, because we can sum up the entirety of interaction design with googly eyes.

type-2 8y ago

but they're not cute

BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
So put a hat and some googly-eye stickers on them?

tjoff 8y ago

Yet I would consider Vector by far the most useful product of them all.

0x8BADF00D 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for an engineering team at Anki There’s also the privacy aspect of Vector. Anki respects your privacy because your data isn’t used in the same way that it is by Google Home and Alexa (i.e. for ad targeting)
- Ancalagon 8y ago
  Hows the work/life there? I briefly considered applying but havent gotten around to it.
- x0054 8y ago
  Are you considering adding app capability : SDK? Also, do you need entry level ML people?
BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
Most useful how? What exactly does it do that is more useful than the other things that do more? (Full disclosure: I very strongly suspect that you're lying.)
- tjoff 8y ago
  Well, for one I don't consider the alternative mentioned systems to be particularly useful. And I would strongly object to living in the same apartment/house as one. I have not (and probably will not) research in what sense the privacy of this device is better but from what little I've seen it is at least better. And if not I can't imagine Anki being less trustworthy than the others. I see it as a furby, which can be a little neat. Wouldn't buy it though.

nikofeyn 8y ago

what is wrong with being a toy? you are oversimplifying the situation by reducing this toy to its components. it's like calling a furby a terrible and uncomfortable electronic pillow. it doesn't even make sense. and you conveniently ignored the coolest factor of vector, and that is it's soon to be released sdk. plus, what is possibly fun and cute about amazon echo and google home just sitting there doing nothing but being the ears of companies scheming on how to sell us more shit?

BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
> what is wrong with being a toy? There's nothing wrong with toys. There's everything wrong with a "Super smart alive and aware AI" hype fest when what they mean is it's a partially functional google assistant with a pareidolic face. > what is possibly fun and cute about amazon echo and google home just sitting there doing nothing https://www.reddit.com/r/eyebombing/comments/5nttde/google_home_xpost_rgooglehome/ https://www.reddit.com/r/eyebombing/comments/5nttde/google_h... Boom, solved. Look at how adorable that is. You could even put a hat on it.
- nikofeyn 8y ago
  yeah, because we can sum up the entirety of interaction design with googly eyes.