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> Voice assistants appear to be yet another instance where a technology has been developed and adopted faster than its consequences have been fully thought-out.
by forofdo 7y ago
> Voice assistants appear to be yet another instance where a technology has been developed and adopted faster than its consequences have been fully thought-out.
What a rubbish. This is totally expected and thought-out. It's even worse, this is probably the #1 reason voice assistants exist at all, to provide these companies with even more valuable data. I cannot imagine the existence of Siri (or any other voice assistent) without a business model behind it.
- kdmccormick 7y agoUm, could the business model be to provide value to users in order to make the systems they are loaded on more attractive products? Sure, a huge part of the Siri/Alexa/Assistant business model is probably data collection. But does that mean all voice assistants ever inherently have no real end-user value? I don't regularly use them, but I would be very happy to find a reliable way to change music and send messages with my voice while driving. Before the era of mass data harvesting, arguably useful utilities like the MS Office suite were loaded onto OSs to make users more likely to stay on that platform.