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I think we're at least one CS breakthrough away, and how do you put a timeline on that? Kinda like how speech recognition was just almost there for decades unt
by pkulak 7y ago
I think we're at least one CS breakthrough away, and how do you put a timeline on that?
Kinda like how speech recognition was just almost there for decades until modern ML made it actually as good as a human being.
- ozten 7y ago> ML made it actually as good as a human being How ML made it usable in some cases, would be more accurate. I still can't ask Alexa to play specific albums or tracks most of the time. I don't want that level of accuracy driving cars on the road.
- shsjxjbsbs 7y agoGoogle seems to have no trouble playing music from Spotify for me. It can even manage it while I yell my song requests from the shower.
- rsj_hn 7y agoThe only thing I have ever wanted from phone assistants is to tell me whether a coffee shop was open or not, or what the closing time is. I still can't get this info, nor is this question understood. I still have to stop, launch a browser, navigate to the site, and dig around their website for opening hours, or in the worst case find a phone number and call to ask them.
- adriftincode 7y agoWhat phone assistants are you using? I’ve never had this problem.
- rsj_hn 7y agoSiri
- adriftincode 7y agoSame here, Siri solves this problem. Me: “Hey Siri, how late is x open?” Siri: One possibility is on x street, does that sound good? Me: Yes Siri: “X is open from y-z.”
- rsj_hn 7y agoI just tried it and you're right, it works. Well, it didn't used to work so I stopped using Siri. I regret the error.
- shsjxjbsbs 7y agoI wonder if people assume Siri failed to understand the query when they hear its request for clarification. I think it should include some context, eg: “Which x do you want opening hours for?”
- Doxin 7y agoThe one thing that I can consistently get google assistant to do is to set timers: "Ok google set timer for 5 minutes". I want more of that. Could they please just implement and document simple recipes like this? Setting a timer hands-free is already incredibly convenient, and I can only imagine making something similar for a wide host of tasks isn't /that/ hard. I really don't mind if I have to formulate it in a rather specific way, as long as it works and I can find out what that way is.
- officeplant 7y agoThe weird names and track titles that dominate electronic music has made this quite difficult for me.
- 663e1b 7y agoBetter GPUs is what enabled modern ML, it wasn't a CS breakthrough.
- pkulak 7y agoI dunno. I'd say new classification strategies like K-Means* really did it. Without that, all the power in the world doesn't get you anywhere. * https://www-cs.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/coatesng_nntot2012.pdf https://www-cs.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/coatesng_nntot20...