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A big problem with the assistants is that as soon as they fail at a query they seem stupid, I feel stupid, and I stop using them for a long time. Raise your ha
by mikestew 6y ago
A big problem with the assistants is that as soon as they fail at a query they seem stupid, I feel stupid, and I stop using them for a long time.
Raise your hand if you remember the early days of Xbox "recognition", as you listen to other people in your party:
"Xbox, record. XBOX, RECORD. X...BOX, RE...CORD."
It's the reason that "oh, we can't sell an Xbox without a Kinect" Kinect went into the garage after a few months.
- tjungblut 6y agoWhat I find even worse is when you play FIFA and some random non-related british commentary triggers the "xbox" speech command. Infuriating, especially since you can't turn it off.
- teddyh 6y agoAnd it can be used to troll people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anslUJ5SCIs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anslUJ5SCIs
- sleepybrett 6y agoKinect, actually awesome tech, implementation on the xbox... not great. But the heart and soul of a ton of installation art pieces. It's really too bad that MS went with a windows only sdk for the 2.0, the 1.0 being external tech had a multiplatform sdk.