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It's ridiculous how poor in functionality all of them are... The best they can do is, what? Creating schedule entries, for me. All I ask Google is the weather,
by jotm 6y ago
It's ridiculous how poor in functionality all of them are... The best they can do is, what? Creating schedule entries, for me. All I ask Google is the weather, time, some search when I'm lazy and translate (the voice translate app itself is great btw). Feeling like a total corporate bitch saying "Hey Google" every time, too :D
This is supposed to be a personal assistant. And I have a whole list of what it could do for me, personally. But it doesn't.
I've been trying to figure out how to hook Google's speech recognition and voice into other apps, since they're great and it's 99% of what I need, hands-free control and feedback. Maybe they should make that easy, preferably offline and let other people create their own personal assistant modules or something.
- fauigerzigerk 6y agoI agree, some things are just astonishingly bad given the immense effort and resources that are being put into machine learning. Microsoft OneDrive tags my photos. It's mostly useless. For instance, I have some pictures of squirrels on the tree outside my window. Squirrels can really do the most amazing things on trees, but they are small compared to the tree. Microsoft with all its AI muscle will invariably tag those images as something like #Outdoor #Grass #Plant #Tree. It's the same problem with all of those benchmark beating AIs. They have no clue what's special about the picture and what just happens to be in them as well.
- TeMPOraL 6y ago> Maybe they should make that easy, preferably offline and let other people create their own personal assistant modules or something. Like they would ever do that. Then you would no longer be their "corporate bitch". Seriously, the one thing that stands between home assistants and being useful is opening the software up and letting it be used by regular OSS devs. Alas, every one of the four big providers (Apple, Google, MS and Amazon) treat them as their moat; they want control over the ecosystem. It's the same in many other places in the industry - we're technologically way behind where we could be, because everyone wants to be the platform and commoditize everyone else, which necessitates having total control.
- jotm 6y agoI'm fairly sure they could still control and monetize such a product. Kind of like Android. Maybe there's already something like that in the works, with all the talk and investment in AI, we should be seeing some real world results...